History WMG / StarTrekDiscovery

What if the drive proves unusable with mid-23rd-century technology, but by the [=2280s=], propulsion technology advances enough for Starfleet to take another crack at harnessing it? The ''Excelsior'' was referred to as "The Great Experiment" and could achieve speeds far exceeding ''Constitution''-class vessels, and as Scotty demonstrated, ''Excelsior'' was heavily [[JustForPun reliant]] on its engineering computer core to make it all work properly. Perhaps Stamets survives and carries on his research in a Federation facility somewhere until he is able to make a computing breakthrough so that the drive never requires a living creature to navigate through space-time?

* '''Confirmed''', at least for Pike and Number One. And one of the driving points of the season is a [[JustForPun search for Spock]], meaning he will probably encounter the crew of the ''Discovery''.

** TAS was considered non-canon by Gene Roddenberry. That's why ''Encounter at Farpoint'' (TNG) treated it like new technology and ''Flashback'' (VOY) stated that holodecks didn't exist as late as ''[[Film/StarTrekVI Star Trek VI]]''.

They both have the same last name and served in Starfleet around the same time, it's possible they're brothers or cousins]]

* The mission [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters may be a joint one]], focusing mostly on the ''Discovery'' but also with focus on the ''Shenzhou''.

[[Series/StarTrekPicard Agnes Jurati]] and her reformed Borg Collective will appear in the thirty-second century as an ally of the Federation.

*** "Dropping hints really hard"? With shows written the way that they are today, that's [[ReversePsychology all the more reason]] to believe that the prospect of Tyler being a Klingon is just a RedHerring. Of course we're ''supposed'' to suspect him at this point, so that the ShockingSwerve that someone ''else'' is a traitor, a Section 31 operative, or a Klingon spy is preserved to better blindside the audience.

* The Caeliar in Star Trek: Destiny trilogy were[[ActualPacifist extreme pacifists]]. Them engaging in activity that could harm other lifeforms would be very out of character for them unless the victims of the DMA aren't really dead but were transported somewhere.

** However, Quasi-''Confirmed'' as of season four, with Burnham taking over the ship after a...long journey.

As of "All In," what we know about Unknown Species 10-C is (1) that they're capable of cloaking entire star systems and (2) that they're dredging the Milky Way for boronite (which "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E19TheOmegaDirective The Omega Directive]]" established as being a key ingredient in generating omega particles. Both cloaking star systems and harnessing omega molecules were achieved by the Caeliar civilization in the StarTrekDestiny novel trilogy. Given that Season 2 already featured the Control AI and StarTrekProdigy features a Brikar, it's clear that the producers of the new series are willing to migrate concepts from the books into alpha canon.

In spite of Season 4 having multiple [[ContinuityNod Continuity Nods]] to Star Trek: Picard, but the Higher Synthetics are noticeably absent from the list of alien civilizations suspected to have created the DMA, in spite of being capable of building structures the size of solar systems. Perhaps the writers are holding back on namedropping them until TheReveal? Also, like the Kelvans above, the Higher Synths are from outside the galaxy.

In spite of Season 4 having multiple [[ConinuityNod Continuity Nods]] to Star Trek: Picard, but the Higher Synthetics are noticeably absent from the list of alien civilizations suspected to have created the DMA, in spite of being capable of building structures the size of solar systems. Perhaps the writers are holding back on namedropping them until TheReveal? Also, like the Kelvans above, the Higher Synths are from outside the galaxy.

Burnham will rescue him and take him back to the Prime Universe. He will be a standard-issue NiceGuy Starfleet captain, and the fandom will tediously split over whether WeWantOurJerkBack or not. This is partially based on the supposition that they are not going to replace the [[FemaleGaze extremely hot]] JasonIsaacs with DougJones in a metric tonne of latex.

She has been in hiding for some reason, and last twelve episodes have been all about Lorca trying to sieze control of the Empire and get back to his girl. Which could be seen as being sweet, if you ignore the astronomically large amount of shitty things he has done.

* The symbiote chose Adira, based on their relationship with Gray, their love, Adria's promise, etc.