I could be wrong, and just assuming that the data file Burnham sent to Saru included quantum signature data.

The Mirror Universe never made sense in any incarnation, so the producers have said that they wanted to use this to show how close we all are to going the way of our Mirror Universe counterparts, if given a different environment. The show is firmly on the side of people dictating their own fate. Lorca repeatedly said…

Landry was the original security chief, then it became Tyler. Now that he’s out of commission, it’s unknown who will take his place (though Rhys would seem to be the highest ranking tactical officer available). Stamets is not the chief engineer, and Culber was not the chief medical officer. Burnham is a science…

Information that anyone other than Saru, Burnham, and transporter tech knows about Emperor Georgiou carries a penalty of treason, unless it goes to a higher up, or Sarek. The crew may know about the Mirror Universe, but they weren’t entirely briefed on what Burnham went through.

The quantum signatures of the USS Defiant strongly imply that Star Trek: Discovery takes place in the same universe as that ship, which was from TOS in the Prime universe..

Where do you get that Tilly knows, if only Burnham, Saru, transporter tech, and Sarek, and the admirals know? Is transporter tech a gossip?

Section 31 exists already, and I liked Canto Bight. My cuts would have been tightening up the Force Skype calls and the lead-up to Holdo’s final gambit, but I certainly think the rest of what you said would be entertaining!

The holotech looks on par with Star Wars communicators, not the holodeck, the EMH, or the holocommunicators in DS9, so it’s still primitive enough, particularly when there are holograms of dead musicians at concerts right now.

If Starbase 1 is older than the Nero incursion then it exists in both the Prime and Kelvin Timelines. Its remains do look like the spacedock in the 2009 film. That’s likely given its low number, proximity to Earth, and that one of the proposed season five storylines for ENT would have involved building the first…

Yeah, that’s why I want a show about it. It would certainly be a different Star Trek show. I’m frankly a little sick of all the shows focusing on Starfleet, so I think it could be interesting to see things more from the economic, political, and civilian sectors.

Even in TOS, they weren’t surprised by holographic technology, only holotech that was indistinguishable from reality, like in TNG. YMMV on the aesthetics of holotech, but they fit in reasonably well with Trek.

I’m pretty flexible with whenever, wherever, and in whatever situation, a Star Trek show takes place. It’s the execution that matters. And most importantly, I want the show some kind of hope for how humanity can solve the problems most pressing to people during the period a given show is produced. Now, it seems to be…

Only Saru, Burnham, the transporter operator, Sarek, and the higher ups know about Georgiou. Everyone else on the bridge, and in the rest of the ship, only knows that Burnham beamed back.

And that schematic was the Defiant, which has had a century’s worth of modifications.

While I would have preferred TOS-style nacelles and saucers, the only ship design I have a major problem with is the D7. That’s such a specific ship that to show it as something that looks completely different seems like a gratuitous violation.

The direct references to the USS Defiant from TOS suggest that, not only does DSC take place in the same universe as TOS, but that they traveled to the exact same Mirror Universe as, if not TOS and DS9, at least ENT. I’d have to rewatch, but did they reference the quantum signature of the USS Defiant? If they did,…

Maybe no TMP disco suits, but definitely DISCO exercise gear!

Denise is a woman, and the wife to Mike Okuda. Both of them are the continuity master masters of Star Trek.

Most of the pitches I’ve seen online for post-VOY series come off to me as even bleaker than DS9 and DSC at their bleakest. I like both DS9 and DSC, but I’m not sure I’d be interested in something where the UFP has to be rebuilt. I’m pretty sure I definitely don’t want a show where Earth is destroyed.

The argument goes, and I tend to agree, that by the time of VOY, the tech became a bit too magical. It would tend to be too easy to fix problems with tech-the-tech and therefore the characters would be less relatable.