CBS merely announced the name of the coming Star Trek TV serial , and give us the briefest glimpse of its titular ship , the Discovery . What could it possibly reveal about the show ? Well , if you ’re a Star Trek nerd like we are , it can tell you a lot — let in when in the timeline the series might take plaza .
The Discovery is pretty obviously based on Ralph McQuarrie ’s design of the Enterprise for the never - made Star Trek : Planet of the Titans . Here ’s the Discovery :
And here ’s McQuarrie ’s design :
Star Trek : Discovery executive manufacturer Bryan Fuller was asked how much the Discovery was influenced by this design , and his answer was that it was “ to a point that we ca n’t lawfully gloss on it until we figure out some things . ” So maybe the designing of the ship will change between now and when the show actually issue forth out — in fact , executive producer Heather Kadinhas saidthat this design is n’t final .
But , assume the ship stays the fundamentally the same , there are some interesting details to take down . First is that there were actual models produced based on McQuarrie ’s purpose . And , even though Planet of the Titans was never made , the models have shown up in Star Trek .
According toMemory Alpha , the Star Trek canyon wiki , one of the models turn up in Star Trek III : The Search For Spock , dock near the Enterprise . Another one made an appearance in the Next Generation episode “ Unification I. ” Both of them are purportedly also in the debris of the Borg blast at Wolf 359 in “ Best of Both Worlds , Part II . ”
( UPDATE : A rumor that Bryan Fuller hasdenied . )
This is further backed up by the fact that the Discovery is record as NCC-1031 . There ’s no canonical abstract thought behind the issue , but the Enterprise is NCC-1701 , the Defiant from Deep Space 9 is NX-74205 ( “ NX ” denoting experimental or prototype ships ) , and Voyager from Voyager was NCC-74656 . All the later ship have five numbers . The Discovery , with four like the Enterprise and without a letter like the later Enterprises , might be older . Assuming that Starfleet does the coherent matter and number its ships in production order , the Discovery might even be older than the Enterprise .
As for the ship name , there was a starshipDiscoveryin surgery during The Next genesis . It had a tiny , diminutive mention in the first time of year episode “ Conspiracy . ” It shows up in Starfleet ’s data file , where an order regarding the Discovery ’s rendezvous and personnel office transference with other ships is read by Data .
Since Star Trek : Discovery does take place in the choice universe , that means it shares continuity with that episode . It ’s likely not the same ship , but if this show is set before The Next propagation , it ’s nice to recognize that it still has a namesake in the twenty-fourth one C .
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