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[[WMG: The Gorn infants from Recap/StarTrekStrangeNewWorldsS1E09AllThoseWhoWander are the Gorn's attempt at creating augments.]]
Even ignoring Bones's comment from Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness about Gorn breeding habits, these baby Gorn are faster and more vicious than the adults seen in their debut in TOS, and are somehow not only fertile within hours of hatching, but are able to inseminate another humanoid simply by projectile vomiting at them. If it wasn't for the 'last man standing' nature of their hatching, this could potentially give them a reproductive rate on a par with ''tribbles''.
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* Not necessarily. For all we know, the Pike from TOS had gone through the experience of seeing his time crystal on Boreth (which happens after the events of "The Cage") which would fit in nicely with the events of "The Menagerie", where Pike is reluctant to go to Talos IV as he believes his life is over. Moreover, Pike knows better than to mess around with the timeline and will probably keep an eye on Kirk and will ensure he succeeds him as captain of the Enterprise, which is probably how he got the command all along.
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* Her status is pretty much confirmed 100 percent human as a) she is a known descendent of Noonien-Singh and b) any form of augmentation automatically barrs her from Federation service and is an automatic court-martial as seen with Una Chin-Riley. So she is not [[{{Jossed}} augmented in any fashion or degree.]]
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* Dr. Piper might have what the military refers to as 'time in grade' over M'Benga. What this means is that they could be of equal rank, but Dr. Piper might have been promoted to said rank a year before M'Benga, making him the superior officer. Another theory could be that when Pike does get injured, M'Benga (obviously being a close friend) might take a leave of absence to help care for him, and in the meantime, Piper, then later, McCoy, come aboard as the CMO of the ''Enterprise''. M'Benga might come back, but now he's the lower-ranking doctor.
** The latter may well be the case. In ''A Quality of Mercy'' [[spoiler: we see that, in the AlternateTimeline where Pike remains Captain of the Enterprise in 2266, M'Benga is still the CMO and there's no sign of McCoy. This does seem to imply that M'Benga's career on the Enterprise as CMO is tied to Pike's own career/fate.]]
** The latter may well be the case. In ''A Quality of Mercy'' [[spoiler: we see that, in the AlternateTimeline where Pike remains Captain of the Enterprise in 2266, M'Benga is still the CMO and there's no sign of McCoy. This does seem to imply that M'Benga's career on the Enterprise as CMO is tied to Pike's own career/fate.]]
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* Dr. Piper might have what the military refers to as 'time in grade' over M'Benga. What this means is that they could be of equal rank, but Dr. Piper might have been promoted to said rank a year before M'Benga, making him the superior officer. Another theory could be that when Pike does get injured, M'Benga (obviously being a close friend) might take a leave of absence to help care for him, and in the meantime, Piper, then later, McCoy, [=McCoy=], come aboard as the CMO of the ''Enterprise''. M'Benga might come back, but now he's the lower-ranking doctor.
** The latter may well be the case. In ''A Quality of Mercy'' [[spoiler: we see that, in the AlternateTimeline where Pike remains Captain of the Enterprise in 2266, M'Benga is still the CMO and there's no sign ofMcCoy.[=McCoy=]. This does seem to imply that M'Benga's career on the Enterprise as CMO is tied to Pike's own career/fate.]]
** The latter may well be the case. In ''A Quality of Mercy'' [[spoiler: we see that, in the AlternateTimeline where Pike remains Captain of the Enterprise in 2266, M'Benga is still the CMO and there's no sign of
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[[WMG: The events of the Season 1 finale altered the timeline.]]
Pike's round-trip to the alternate 2266 in "A Quality of Mercy" may have altered the Prime Timeline slightly. Pike now knows (or at least believes he knows) that Kirk will be his successor as Captain of the Enterprise, and he's shown to be researching him even when he returns to the present. It's possible that, knowing this, he seeks out Kirk and they end up meeting years before they originally would have (which according to Kirk in "The Menagerie" was when he first took over the Enterprise from Pike). He also learned about Una's fate in the alternate 2266, and that's also something that he'll no doubt be working to change. These changes, significant in themselves, will no doubt lead to other changes, resulting in a CloseEnoughTimeline that broadly matches the backstory established by the original series, while serving as a handwave for retcons.
Pike's round-trip to the alternate 2266 in "A Quality of Mercy" may have altered the Prime Timeline slightly. Pike now knows (or at least believes he knows) that Kirk will be his successor as Captain of the Enterprise, and he's shown to be researching him even when he returns to the present. It's possible that, knowing this, he seeks out Kirk and they end up meeting years before they originally would have (which according to Kirk in "The Menagerie" was when he first took over the Enterprise from Pike). He also learned about Una's fate in the alternate 2266, and that's also something that he'll no doubt be working to change. These changes, significant in themselves, will no doubt lead to other changes, resulting in a CloseEnoughTimeline that broadly matches the backstory established by the original series, while serving as a handwave for retcons.
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** Scotty didn't join the Enterprise until 2265. Also, Pike was known for going through engineers (they either die or transfer off the ship. Proof of this is how in Discovery, the engineer was a man named Louvier and then, three months later in SNW, Hemmer comes aboard, and now Hemmer is dead).
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It seems a little convenient that apparently ''nothing'' Pike does can save the cadets, himself, and Spock all in one timeline. Perhaps the Travelers somehow manipulated events to force Spock's death in all the "wrong" timelines so that Pike had to go with the correct one.
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It seems a little convenient that apparently ''nothing'' Pike does can save the cadets, himself, and Spock all in one timeline. Perhaps the Travelers somehow manipulated events to force Spock's death in all the "wrong" timelines so that Pike had to go with the correct one. As a corollary to this that might make them seem a bit less heartless, maybe they also TrickedOutTime and recruited the two cadets who were supposed to die into the organization while faking their deaths, because the BadFuture wasn't their fault, and they had no idea what would happen.
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[[WMG: [[Series/StarTrekPicard The Travelers/Supervisors]] were involved in enforcing Spock's death in all the timelines in which Pike avoided his fate]]
It seems a little convenient that apparently ''nothing'' Pike does can save the cadets, himself, and Spock all in one timeline. Perhaps the Travelers somehow manipulated events to force Spock's death in all the "wrong" timelines so that Pike had to go with the correct one.
** The latter may well be the case. In ''A Quality of Mercy'' [[spoiler: we see that, in the AlternateTimeline where Pike remains Captain of the Enterprise in 2266, M'Benga is still the CMO and there's no sign of McCoy. This does seem to imply that M'Benga's career on the Enterprise as CMO is tied to Pike's own career/fate.]]
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** [[spoiler: Given that Hemmer is dead as of the end of Season 1, the Enterprise ''does'' need a new Chief Engineer...]]
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** Potentially {{Jossed}} in the Season 1 finale ''A Quality of Mercy'' [[spoiler: where we see Uhura in 2266 during the events of the ''TOS'' episode ''Balance of Terror'' and Celia Rose Gooding has the same short hair she does wile playing 2259!Uhura. Then again, it ''is'' an AlternateTimeline, so maybe in the Prime Timeline she will start gradually growing her hair to resemble Nichelle Nichols'.]]
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** It may also be telling that the names of one of the cadets changed from Muliq Al Alcazar in episode 2, to Maat Al-Salah in episode 10.
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** Given that Pike's goal was to make a point and not necessarily to provide a history lesson, he may have been conflating the various events together.
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* [[spoiler:Season 1's finale did feature a brief voice-over from a certain engineer in an alternate timeline...]]
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[[WMG: Alternately, Kirk comes aboard as the new Chief of Security]]
La'an has been PutOnABus already, leaving a vacancy as both Chief of Security and Second Officer. What we know of Kirk's career background would fit that dual position very neatly.
La'an has been PutOnABus already, leaving a vacancy as both Chief of Security and Second Officer. What we know of Kirk's career background would fit that dual position very neatly.
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* Confirmed: He dies in "All Those Who Wander".
Wander"[[note]]albeit to save an away team rather than the ship[[/note]], and Spock acknowledges the logic of his decision.
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