Your most insane theory on what Discovery is going to be really about!

Everything we've seen and read about the show being a TOS prequel is a lie. The show is actually set post-VOY, and the "Sarek" in the show is actually a descendant of the original.

 

"Benjamin Button" Kirk?
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I think they will spend 13 episodes chronicling "Sherman" and the eponymous planet/colony he founds.

EDIT TO ADD:
And, of course, the overarching storyline about Sherman and Sherman's Planet will involve the crew of Discovery dealing with Sherman's use and abuse of the Guardian of Forever, which he calls "The Wayback Machine".

 

They find an ancient Earth-Show called "Star Trek". Oh my goodness the temporal paradoxes.

 

I was thinking more along the lines of using makeup to make Shatner look younger and using it to make Pine look older. David Pollack since he is a clone with have a combination of young and old makeup. Sherman in your sceniaro will actually be clone Kirk taking that name to seperate himself. the show will be about Old Kirk and young Kirk raising clone Kirk as parents. the good thing for the show is Chris Pine will put his movie career on hold for about 5 years to do this new show.

Jason

 

The Women

 

How about an explanation of Spock's line about one of his ancestors saying that once we have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Fine. Spock's mum descended from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Or Holmes if they share a universe. But what about the line from Sherlock where Watson calls Sherlock Spock? The Star Trek TV show exists and predicts the future? Both Sherlock and John know of Sherlock's time travelling descendent? This creates a Pythonesque muddle of reality.

 

One or more novels had dolphin crew members working in Cetacean Ops aboard the Enterprise-D.

Non humanoids elsewhere could certainly have evolved space travel on their own.

Plus, during the mind-meld, the Horta may have read Spock's mind and learned of warp drive and whatnot.

 

Star Trek exists, as fiction, in the universe of the Sherlock TV show. That's all that is needed. Trek obviously isn't a TV show in its OWN reality, but it is in that one.

As for Sherlock Holmes in general: He's fictional in both universes. (Trek has, IIRC, made occasional references to the character, such as in "Elementary, Dear Data")

And it is not unusual, IMHO, for Spock to be a descendant of Doyle. On his mother's side, of course.

 

Meh. It really isn't that far-fetched to think that someone on Vulcan once independently had a thought that was similar to Conan-Doyle's writings. I'm fine with the idea that one of Spock's ancestors just happened to have the very similar thought, and when Spock puts that idea into Earth-English, he borrows the wording from Conan-Doyle.

I have more of a problem with that alleged truism actually being a truism. I mean, how do you know when you've actually eliminated the impossible? There could very easily be more explanations that you simply have not yet considered. If a potential explanation has not even been considered, then it cannot be eliminated as being impossible or verified as being an improbable truth.

In short, I think Doyle, Holmes, and Spock were each thinking illogically if they believed this idea to be a truism .

 

There are, however, numerous instances where there is a defined number of possibilities.

 

Conspiracy. Who the insects were, where they came from. How much they infiltrated the Klingons.

 

I want them to be the animated Kirk.

 

My most insane theory about Discovery?

At the end of the last episode, Dr. Sheldon Cooper will wake up and slowly realize that it was all a dream.

 

The search for what happened to the Robinsons and their ship the Jupiter 2.

 

Garth of Izar and the Battle of Axanar

 

Where Q came from.

 

What David Bowman and HAL are up to after all these years.

 

A Spaceballs crossover.

 

Two starships from Starfleet. At least one Klingon ship.
There will be humans and aliens. It's a stretch, I know.

 

Harry Mudd , The Early Years!