Star Trek Headcanon Reimagined, 3: Searches For Various Iterations Of Spock

The Star Trek Movies era was a delight for long time fans who hadn't seen their beloved cast in a decade. And while the first movie is A Chore to sit through, The Wrath Of Khan began a new, self-aware, and sometimes deliberately silly era of Star Trek.

For this season, we're going to spend the first half focused on Spock. He goes missing in the Motion Picture universe AND he was already missing in the Discovery timeline, so it's fun to see various crews trying to track him down. 

We also spend some time with the other first officers, T'Pol and Saru.

The real story of this series, though, is that it's the end of our voyages with Discovery for a looooooooong time.  Also, the cast of The Original Series (and Movies) is going to be seen less frequently going forward. Don't be sad, though, they'll be flashed back to several times in the continuity as reference points for some of the more modern shows.

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Season 3:
Searches For Various Iterations Of Spock

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TOS - Star Trek (The Original Series), 1966-69      TOSM - (The Original Series) Movies, 1979-1991
ENT - Enterprise, 2001-2005       DIS - Discovery, 2017-2024

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Episode 301: The Wrath Of Khan (TOSM)
(Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Chekov, Khan, Scott, Sulu, Uhura, Saavik)

Sure, we're back in the original dimension, but it's many years later. Kirk is an admiral, Spock's back on Vulcan, and Chekov is a commander on The Reliant. On a research mission, Chekov runs into Khan from last season, and is forced into a trap intended to ensnare Kirk. But what's more important to Khan? Killing Kirk or getting his hands on The Genesis Device?


Episode 302: Brother (DIS)
(Burnham, Pike, Saru, Tilly, Stamets, Sarek, Grayson, Reno, Linus)

Something major happened to Spock at the end of The Wrath Of Khan, so now we're going to go all the way back to when he was a child, and explore his relationship with Burnham. And, oh yea, Pike is now the temporary captain of The Discovery, as the ship goes off in search of the cause of the Seven Lights. We'll be seeing a lot of him this season.


Episode 303: An Obol For Charon (DIS)
(Burnham, Pike, Saru, Tilly, Stamets, Reno, Linus)

Like one of the classic episodes, an unidentified sphere takes control of Discovery, messes with its computer, and turns the whole ship higgledy-piggledy. It also triggers an illness in Saru that is fatal to his species.


Episode 304: Fallen Hero
(Archer, Ph'lox, T'Pol, Reed, Mayweather, Sato, Trip)

First officers having cultural identity problems occur all over the Star Trek timeline. During the Enterprise era, T'Pol must balance her loyalty to the crew with her Vulcan heritage. 


Episode 305: The Sound Of Thunder (DIS)
(Saru, Burnham, Pike, Tyler, Stamets, Culber, Linus)

Everything Saru knew about his species lifespan was a lie, so he decides to break The Prime Directive to set his species free. Plus, Culber is alive again, and Tyler is back on the ship. Awwwwwkwaaaaaaaaaaard.


Episode 306: The Search For Spock (TOSM)
(Kirk, McCoy, Scott, Saavik, Uhura, Sulu, Chekov, Sarek, Spock)

The Wrath Of Khan is considered by most to be The Best Star Trek movie, and I don't disagree. It sets all the rest of The Star Trek films into motion as a really cool storyarc on aging military personnel desperately clinging to power. Here, the crew of The Enterprise must defy Starfleet to rescue their missing friend. Also, Klingon bastards do Something that will incur The Wrath Of Kirk.


Episode 307: If Memory Serves (DIS)
(Spock, Burnham, Pike, Saru, Stamets, Tilly, Tyler, Georgiou, Culber)

It looks like The Enterprise wasn't the only ship to find Spock. Young Spock is back with Burnham trying to get to the Discovery via Thalos IV, the planet from The Menagerie. What will his involvement due to help them discover the purpose of The Red Angel, and how will it affect Discovery's relationship with Starfleet and Section 31?


Episode 308: Project Daedalus (DIS)
(Spock, Burnham, Pike, Saru, Stamets, Tilly, Ariam, Nhan)

Everyone is on edge on the Discovery. Spock and Burnham, Stamets and Culbert, Pike and Tyler, Ariam and Nhan. Ok, not Tilly. She's still delightful. But someone on board has either been feeding information to Section 31 or else taking information from the Sphere they encountered last season. And it's unclear what they're doing with it. But the now fugitive Discovery is in Section 31 territory and the proverbial fan is oscillating in proverbial feculince.


​Episode 309: The Voyage Home (TOSM)
(Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Chekov, Uhura, Scott, Sulu, Sarek, Saavik, Rand)

After the events of The Search For Spock, the former Enterprise crew must journey back to 20th century Earth in an unfamiliar vessel in order to bring some whales back to Earth to keep it from being obliterated by an amok probe. It's a weird premise, and the movie is filled with more Colorful Metaphors than you'd expect in a Star Trek film. This is the most honestly funny chapter in TOS, as its humor is based on the various crew members' failure to understand 20th century culture. And it's very much a mid 1980s comedy. It's also fun to see Rand show up again, even if it's Very Briefly.


Episode 310: Cold Front (ENT)
(Archer, T'Pol. Phlox, Sato, Mayweather, Tucker, Daniels, Sillik)

A secret war is being waged throughout time, and Archer's Enterprise is somehow stuck in the midst of it.


Episode 311: Perpetual Infinity (DIS)
(Burnham, Spock, Saru, Stamets, Tillly, Culber, Tyler, Pike, Georgiou)

The identy of The Red Angel is finally revealed.


 Episode 312: Through The Valley Of Shadows (DIS)
(Burnham, Tyler, Pike, Spock, Saru, Stammets, Culber, Amanda, L'rell, Reno)

Back to Klingons and family problems, as Burnham, Pike, and friends must visit the home of the Time Crystals which are ... guarded by Tyler and L'rell's son? Oh, Time Crystals, how your wackiness allows us to overcome things like, the passing of time, in order to have an emotional conundrum.


Episodes 313 & 314: The Menagerie (TOS)
(Spock, Kirk, McCoy, Scott, Pike, Uhura)

A reshoot of TOS's pilot features Spock appearing to commit mutiny (man, Sarek is a Bad Influence) in order to take his previous captain (and current captain of The Discovery in our chronology) Pike, back to a planet where he was once part of a zoo. Part flashback, part trial, part sci-fi adventure, this two-part episode shows that it was Pike, not Kirk who was into making out with multi-colored aliens.


Episode 315: Twilight (ENT)
(Archer, Phlox, Tucker, T'Pol)

While we're futzing around with time travel, wes check back in with Archer's Enterprise. In trying to save T'Pol, Archer becomes gravely wounded. We flash forward a bit to see how, without Captain Quantum Leap, the crew can't save the world. So Phlox attempts to go back in time and set everything right.


Episode 316:  Deadly Years (TOS)
(Kirk, McCoy, Spock, Chekov, Sulu, Scott, Chapel, Uhura)

A seemingly abandoned planet turns out to actually be a deathtrap, as it causes most (but not all) the people who visit it to age rapidly. That's right, you'll get to see Grandpa Kirk, Wizardly Spock, and a whole bunch of other crew members grow grey over a single episode. Shockingly, no one is mind controlled into thinking they're young. 


Episodes 317 & 318: Shockwave (ENT)
(Archer, Reed, T'Pol. Tucker, Mayweather, Sato, Daniels, Sillik, Forrest, Soval)

More cold war time travel shenanigans make Captain Archer seem responsible for a massive tragedy. Will this be the end of our journey with Archer's Enterprise?


Episodes 319 & 320: Such Sweet Sorrow (DIS)
(Burnham, Spock, Pike, Saru, Stammets, Georgiou, Stammets, Tilly, Tyler, Culber, Sarek, Amanda, Reno,  L'rell)

It's not at all going to be the end for our journey with Archer's Enterprise but this episode will mark our final adventure with the crew of Discovery for a long while. Maybe ever? *clears throat* Discovery! Enterprise! Control! Starfleet! A thing that must be destroyed lest it fall into the wrong hands! Timestream manipulation! Sacrificed characters! Nannites! It's a game changing adventure for everyone as we say goodbye to the USS Discovery and Season Three.