As long as somewhere, at some point of the series, the Discovery is notified over subspace, everything will be well in the world.
And I just finished the first season of The Expanse... Knowing that this, as well as other space-based sci-fi offerings like Dark Matter, Killjoys, and the like are out there, it's almost certain to me that Discovery will take cues from the currently-hip serial storytelling thing and have several concurrent storylines with several groups of characters, which all eventually meet up in the end. There will most definitely be swaths of time where main characters are separated from each other or before they're even introduced.
It sounds to me that Discovery with the principal crew may not be a thing until a few episodes into the season. The ship may be around, but Martin-Green's character may not be aboard, or she may simply hae a different captain.
As for the Shenzhou, I think that she will be the subject of a related storyline and may be the main ship for a while before the plot moves to Discovery; or she'll be another ship operating in the same region and eventually be a sacrifice to the season arc before things are done. My first gut reaction to the wireframe ship is that she would be the Shenzhou, before the "look" police got their claws out.
Would it be cool if the two are part of the same mission and actually travel together? Sure, and there's arguably precedent for that, with various Enterprises over the years being detailed to rendevous with other starships for common missions and not just resupply or personnel transfer. The example that sticks out to me the most is from TNG, when the Enterprise-D and the Hood were set to work together on a terraforming mission before Picard got himself kidnapped by 2001's obelisk. And heck, in an early draft of the TNG pilot episode, the E-D was supposed to be travelling with the USS Starseeker before the latter is destroyed by the bad guys of the time.
Mark
And I just finished the first season of The Expanse... Knowing that this, as well as other space-based sci-fi offerings like Dark Matter, Killjoys, and the like are out there, it's almost certain to me that Discovery will take cues from the currently-hip serial storytelling thing and have several concurrent storylines with several groups of characters, which all eventually meet up in the end. There will most definitely be swaths of time where main characters are separated from each other or before they're even introduced.
It sounds to me that Discovery with the principal crew may not be a thing until a few episodes into the season. The ship may be around, but Martin-Green's character may not be aboard, or she may simply hae a different captain.
As for the Shenzhou, I think that she will be the subject of a related storyline and may be the main ship for a while before the plot moves to Discovery; or she'll be another ship operating in the same region and eventually be a sacrifice to the season arc before things are done. My first gut reaction to the wireframe ship is that she would be the Shenzhou, before the "look" police got their claws out.
Would it be cool if the two are part of the same mission and actually travel together? Sure, and there's arguably precedent for that, with various Enterprises over the years being detailed to rendevous with other starships for common missions and not just resupply or personnel transfer. The example that sticks out to me the most is from TNG, when the Enterprise-D and the Hood were set to work together on a terraforming mission before Picard got himself kidnapped by 2001's obelisk. And heck, in an early draft of the TNG pilot episode, the E-D was supposed to be travelling with the USS Starseeker before the latter is destroyed by the bad guys of the time.
Mark
