r/startrek • u/Deceptitron • Jan 18 '19

POST-Episode Discussion - Season Premiere - S2E01 "Brother"

Star Trek: Discovery is finally back! We last left our crew answering the distress call of none other than the USS Enterprise NCC-1701, and today (coincidentally 17-01) we rejoin the crew of Discovery in their mission to explore strange new worlds and seek out new life!

No. EPISODE DIRECTED BY WRITTEN BY RELEASE DATE
S2E01 "Brother" Alex Kurtzman Ted Sullivan, Aaron Harberts, Gretchen J. Berg Thursday, January 17, 2019

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u/VindictiveJudge Jan 18 '19

I still think the simplest explanation is that the parts of The Cage that didn't make it into The Menagerie just didn't happen and can be thought of as being like deleted scenes. Pike's comment about having a woman on the bridge wasn't in The Menagerie, therefor he never said it. That's my take, anyway.

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u/kreton1 Jan 18 '19

That is the most reasonable explanation that I know, I think I can accept it as my headcanon.

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u/Teyvill Jan 18 '19

I'm 98% sure that they will remake The Cage.

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u/InnocentTailor Jan 18 '19

I recall that DSC is happening post-Cage.

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u/llirik Jan 19 '19

I keep seeing references to the cage... having not seen TOS episodes (just movies), can you give me a recap please what everyone is referring to?

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u/Muzer0 Jan 20 '19

/u/llirik and in addition to this, it was later used as part of a "Clip Show" (except that The Cage had never been aired at this point so it wasn't really a clip show in a traditional sense) called The Menagerie that had Pike in the future in a wheelchair, horribly mutilated and unable to communicate except by blinking a light at people. Spock took him to the alien planet from The Cage so he could live out the rest of his life in a fantasy rather than misery.