Random speculations thread!

[Michael]

It already did. In Frank Herbert’s Dune (1965). You just have to replace spice with mushroom and the Guild Navigators with the Tardigrade.

True, they are similar concepts. But I was actually trying to reference this.

 

[JRTStarlight]

Weaponized tribbles.

This idea of weaponized tribbles amazes me. Who are you who are so wise in the ways of military science?

 

[Kor]

Weaponized tribbles would be a war crime.

Kor

 

[zar]

Harry Mudd joins the crew of Discovery, Lorca utilizes his nefarious ways.

I don't think so, because of this:

http://www.startrek.com/article/interview-discovery-showrunner-aaron-harberts

Each episode is a chapter, but each of those chapters in a way is distinct enough that you'll be able to remember what happened. We always say like, when you write TV and you meet someone, "Oh, I'm a TV writer." "Oh, what do you write for?" "Star Trek." "Oh, what episode did you write?" This is one of those where you can say, "I wrote the one with Harry Mudd," and you'll be like, "Got it. I know exactly what happened."

Which implies Harry Mudd only appears in one episode.


Speculation: The binary stars are the center of the Boreth system. Over the course of the war the border shifts and puts it deeper into Klingon space.

 

[JRTStarlight]

Weaponized tribbles would be a war crime.

But the evidence blows up, so in court the evidence won't be any tribble at all.

 

[seigezunt]

Ensign Tardigrade.

HA!
I was apparently onto something! LOL

So we have this tardigrade and for those that don’t know it is a microscopic creature that lives in water and it is part of an ecosystem. And like all Trek allegories, what you see is not always what you get so what may look like a monster may not be that, even though the creature has been introduced as such. In the original conception, the tardigrade was one of the bridge crew members…It was going to be like you come in and there was Mary and there was Shazad and then there is Ephraim [named for the first zoologist to observe tardigrades]. It would have been really cool because he would have just been there.

https://trekmovie.com/2017/10/08/pa...trek-discovery-tardigrade-was-bridge-officer/

 

[SpocksOddSocks]

I suspect a major Deus Ex Machina coming at the end of the season... some time travel event preventing Sarek from saving Michael from the attack on the learning centre.

The result of Michael dying as a child will cause events to change, the war will still happen, but T'Kuvma will not be killed, and neither will Georgiou, and a resolution will be easier.

I have to stress it's not what I want to see, but, you know, expect the worst and all...

 

[Kor]

I suspect a major Deus Ex Machina coming at the end of the season... some time travel event preventing Sarek from saving Michael from the attack on the learning centre.

The result of Michael dying as a child will cause events to change, the war will still happen, but T'Kuvma will not be killed, and neither will Georgiou.

I don't think they would retcon away the main character like that.

Kor

 

[SpocksOddSocks]

I don't think they would retcon away the main character like that.

Kor

I know the concept is very contrived, and pointless... which is why I suspect it.

 

[BillJ]

Lorca and Tilly are deep cover Klingons.

 

[KirkusOveractus]

I suspect a major Deus Ex Machina coming at the end of the season... some time travel event preventing Sarek from saving Michael from the attack on the learning centre.

The result of Michael dying as a child will cause events to change, the war will still happen, but T'Kuvma will not be killed, and neither will Georgiou, and a resolution will be easier.

I have to stress it's not what I want to see, but, you know, expect the worst and all...

If they did that, I would demand that every single person involved with producing this show quit their current jobs and pursue other lines of work that they would be better in.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

If you're looking for another theory as to the reason for Discovery's registry code, 10-31 in police CB lingo generally = "crime in progress". http://copradar.com/tencodes/index.html

 

[KirkusOveractus]

If you're looking for another theory as to the reason for Discovery's registry code, 10-31 in police CB lingo generally = "crime in progress". http://copradar.com/tencodes/index.html

Which would then hearken back to Roddenberry's past as working for the LAPD!

(I know, I'm reaching...)

 

[SpocksOddSocks]

If you're looking for another theory as to the reason for Discovery's registry code, 10-31 in police CB lingo generally = "crime in progress". http://copradar.com/tencodes/index.html

So that made the USS Glenn "unnecessary use of radio"...

 

[KirkusOveractus]

So that made the USS Glenn "unnecessary use of radio"...

More like unnecessary use of Spore Drive...

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

So that made the USS Glenn "unnecessary use of radio"...

As in "waste of space"/redship?

 

[Gonzo]

Lorca and Tilly are deep cover Klingons.

Nah Tilly is either a Romulan or Cardassian spy.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

(I know, I'm reaching...)

I was actually thinking more along the lines of subtle commentary on the nature of their actions.

 

[XCV330]

prediction: one mandatory Earth episode.

 

[Cephas7]

Black badge uniforms, Lorca's "carte blanche" to do whatever is needed to win the war, and even Discovery's number... cmon! Section 31 anyone?