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"Cadet" Tilly, Kobayashi Maru, and the 25th Century

So, my theory here is that Discovery IS the post-Nemesis show some of you were clamoring for, and that everything we're seeing is actually a very elaborate Kobayashi Maru-like scenario that (Lt. Commander?) Tilly is being put through to test her readiness for command.

When we finally see the CMO aboard Discovery, it's gonna be Admiral Riker, observing how she's doing.
So, the whole series is "These Are the Voyages" Redux?

:barf:
 
Scene where they were trying to jump to the dilithium mine/planet under Klingon attack and locking in the ripper to navigate the jump........

Captain Lorca pops in
"Wanted to wish you well, tell you good luck, & let you know we are all counting on you......"

2 mins later pops in again mid jump....

"Wanted to wish you well, tell you good luck, & let you know we are all counting on you....."

And again 2 mins after that......
 
Lorca: Saru, how long until we can complete the jump?

Saru: I can't tell, sir.

Lorca: You can tell me, I'm the captain.

Saru: No, I mean I'm just not sure.

Lorca: Can't you take a guess?

Saru: Well...not for another two hours.

Lorca: You can't take a guess for another two hours?
 
(PRISON SHUTTLE PILOT GETS KNOCKED OFF THE HULL, SHUTTLE GOES OUT OF CONTROL)

Starfleet Control: Now, Burnham, don't panic. In the seatbelt of the automatic pilot is a manual inflation tube. I need you to take out that tube, and blow on it.
 
(In the mess hall.)

Lorca (to the food slot computer): Bet babe, slide a piece o' the porter, drink side run the java.
(A plate of steak and a cup of coffee appear.)

Saru: Lookie here. I can dig grease and chompin' on some buns and draggin' through the garden.
(Fish)
 
Saru: Ms. Burnham, I'd like you to meet your fellow crewmen: Unger, Oveur and Dunn.

Burnham: Unger, weren't you one year under Oveur at Starfleet Academy?

Unger: Not directly. Technically, Dunn was under Oveur and I was under Dunn.

Burnham: So Dunn...you were under Oveur and over Unger?

Oveur: That's right. Dunn was over Unger and I was over...Dunn.

Unger: So you see, both Dunn and I were under Oveur. Even though I was under Dunn.
 
Do they still have cigarettes on the 23rd century lol

I remember cigars on Rua Penthe.

but in all likelihood, she was probably smoking a sweet drug that actually did something, rather than there were Klingons farming Tobacco some where on that prison planet.
 
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Kirk was a Lieutenant at the academy. So was Saavik. If cadets become commissioned as Lieutenants, why are there so many ensigns on active duty?

Kor

Nog was lieutenant less than 4 years after starting at the academy
 
Most military academies have age limits. US Coast Guard Academy wont take you after 22, though you can go to Officer Candidate School until you're 31, for instance.
Its the 23rd century, humans live longer, other aliens live longer. Starfleet has to adapt for a galactic organisation and stop acting like a human only club for 20th century people or be irrelevant
 
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Tilly "Should we burn 'em?"

Burnham: Should we what?

Tilly "Burn 'em"

Burnham: "What?"

Tilly: "Burn 'em to Ash"

Burnham: What does Mr. Tylor have to do with this?

Tylor: "You called for me?"

Tilly and Burnham: "No".
 
Its the 23rd cenutry, humans live longer, other aliens live longer Starfleet has to adapt for a galactic organisation and stop acting like a human only club for 20th centiry people or be irrelevant

People born in the 23rd century do live longer, but anyone 57 years young or older, was born in the 22nd century.

It's really a question of what is increasing life expectancy.

Increasingly better diet every generation.

increasingly better medicine every generation.

Or, Colonel Green and Noonian Kahn cleaning the rot from, and roiding the roots of humanity centuries earlier.

(Colonel Green sterilized anyone who had a family history of congenital illness, as well as anyone with radiation deformity form the war. And the Supersoldiers would have been told to go forth, be fruitful and multiply, so most children and grandchildren, and great grandchildren (80 percent of the population?) of the Supermen don't even know that they are not completely human.)

It's possible that these two monsters alone, are to thank for tripling human life expectancy.
 
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