Star Trek Discovery. [SPOILERS WITHIN]

Well shit, I thought the carved out asteroid space dock looked familiar. I kept thinking I'd seen it before, but I thought it was in the Enterprise: A Mirror Darkly episode.



Cleaned up the above image some, makes it easier to see the detail.

That, too.

Bryan Fuller says, "Nope!"

And this tidbit makes me think they're going to get it right.

Hmmm, so that leaves TOS prequel, or TOS beside-quel.

Or post Nemesis.

Elsewhere in the interview he talks about going back to the spirit of TOS......

I'm putting my casino chips on beside-quel.

Not post Nemesis with a ship design and registry like that.

Are ship registries in order? The design really telly us nothing.

Actually, it tells us quite a bit given that the design it's based on was for a project in the mid Seventies called Planet of the Titans, which would've followed on from TOS. Plus, the ship registry have been shown to follow in order. This registry would place the ship as having been built immediately before TOS.

So I reckon you're definitely going to see something either immediately before, during or immediately after TOS. Given that there would probably be some design issues in setting it at the same time, I'm going for immediately before or after.

The only way I could see it being post Nemesis is if it's some sort of old ship that got lost in time and shows up post Nemesis like the USS Boseman.

So between TOS and TMP?

Read my post again.

I hope it's post ENT/ Romulan/Earth War.

It likely will be given the ship registry and design. Looks too advanced to be Ent era.

Appears to be more prequel garbage.

Probably recycle unused season 5 enterprise scripts

They can't be that stupid.

My moneys on the same time period as TOS. That series was about one of the fleets most advanced ships, pushing the boundaries.

Discovery will be one of the many "normal" ships, still out there exploring the frontier, but never the first to be summoned when there is an emergency.

They can be. What have we been watching the last 15 years? Prequel series followed you rebooted TOS characters pre-TOS era. That's the era that they're stuck on and that's the era they think fans want now. So a just pre TOS series with shittier CGI than Enterprise is what we are getting. Only on a steaming platform no one has heard of.

Hopefully they've learned their lesson. I'll admit though the all access is a huge turn off.

If my biggest complant ends up being the design of that godawful ship, it will have already become a better prequel than Enterprise ever was

But from what I'm hearing, it's shaping up to be a decent show as is. I don't mind that it's another show set before the 24th century because there is plenty of history left to mine from the TOS time period and frankly Enterprise didn't add much in the way of canon that would need a work-around.

Hey, yeah, you were an entry-level Trekkie when ENT came about, now you're full circle to full-Trekkie, and series 6 is coming around, and you know your shit.

How weird does that feel, huh?

So, TOS and TNG are the only series NOT named after the ship (or space station) in the show. Seems like TOS is, after 50 years, the only show that had any creativity in its title.

Oh, and... right font!! Eurostyle (very close to Microgramma) was the font Franz Joseph used for the ships in his 1975 ST Tech Manual. It's still not the font used on the Enterprise on the show, but what the heck.

Why do people make a big deal about ship registry numbers? They don't even mean that much with the U.S. navy (U.S.S. Seawolf SSN-21 for example)

A personal bugbear that I'm not sure I'm the only one with - I'd prefer they stopped naming series after the ship that it's set on. This would be the fourth in a row.

IIRC they've had problems coming up with Series names they liked in the past.

Remember that Deep Space Nine was no one's first choice for a name. IIRC it was simply a placeholder until they could come up with something.

But they never did.

If this show is named after 1 ship, what was the talk of crews rather than a crew about?

Maybe they go through the whole history of the ship?

Wow. That's almost like they bought a commercial model kit of the Enterprise and just rearranged the decal numbers.