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Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 1x12 - "Vaulting Ambition"

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Until they got it 100% operational (with the Tartigrade at first) the "Spore Drive" tech was so classified, only the small group of Engineers of the ship directly working with it were the ones who knew exactly what it was - the rest of the crew were just informed they were doing new propulsion experiments and the 'Black Alert' protocol.

The Black Badge security were there to keep non-essential crew out/away from the Spore Dive components and engineering spaces involved in operating it..

There’s also the strangeness with the water which was so important it made the previews. Also summarily dropped.

Lots of writer and hence idea turnover here.
 
What if Prime Lorca's still alive and maybe incarcerated on the ISS Charon?
Maybe he'll get freed and takes over command of the Discovery.

The same could apply to Prime Landry, who could also appear.
 
What if Prime Lorca's still alive and maybe incarcerated on the ISS Charon?
Maybe he'll get freed and takes over command of the Discovery.

The same could apply to Prime Landry, who could also appear.
That sounds a little silly. In that case they would think they imprisoned MU Lorca already.
 
With Empress Georgiou knowing about the Prime Universe through the Defiant, she may have already been aware of the different quantum signatures.

That means she could have known the Lorca she had captured wasn't "her" Lorca.
 
There’s also the strangeness with the water which was so important it made the previews. Also summarily dropped.

Water was a thing with the tardigrade, though. It desiccated, shedding water, when unhappy - then somehow regained the water when happy again. Tying the droplets to that should be easy enough. That is, it's the sort of vague strangeness that I like in my Trek.

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yeah, wondering about point 1. of course someone will predict the reason in the next hour. Maybe I will stay off the podcasts and forums until the end of the season.
Yep. I generally avoid reading these threads simply because I want to enjoy the show more. I knew everything that was going to happen in Game of Thrones because of the same lol
 
So did the mirror defiant also come to our universe?
That's backstory from the episodes "The Tholian Web" in the original series and "In a Mirror, Darkly" in Enterprise if you want to check them out. They're stand alone, you don't need to see the rest of the series' to understand what's going on.
 
So Voq is dead? That entire storyline was so utterly pointless. They killed T'kuvma, Kol and now Voq. Great stuff. *rolls eyes*.

As if it wasn't utterly, utterly ridiculous enough to transform a Klingon into a human with a human personality... it was all for absolutely nothing.
Well after all the fan complaints about the Klingons, obviously they're listening to what the people have to say and

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sorry. couldn't keep a straight face.

But MU Stamets already told his counterpart that he works for the Emperor, in a lab at her ship.
Yup. Realized that last night on a rewatch. Oops.
 
Just had a thought last night:

That tribble on Lorca's desk. _Also_ from the Mirror Universe?

Reason for theory? Tribble likely had multiple chances to react to Tyler/Voq and didn't. Also, demonstrated lack of appetite because it was sitting on that desk *across from a bowl of fortune cookies* and didn't devour even one that we noticed.
 
If you think that then you were not paying attention to that scene or what was said. Every other woman I’ve spoken to either in person or online got the same vibe off that scene. The word used was “groomed” as that word has a very specific meaning these days, esp in light of #MeToo & #TimesUp movements. That word was used for a reason. MU Lorca helped raise MU Burnham from a child and ended up intitating a sexual relationship with his pseudo-daughter. That’s creepy AF, morally wrong and sexual abuse.
I'll still take Woody Allen over Adolph Hitler any day. The needs of the many, etc...
 
Ok so correction, that CBS video never said Lorca was eating Kelpian in the Prime Universe. It just showed he was eating the same meal Burnham did on the mirror Shenzhou in her quarters.

Which appears to be squid or octopus
 
There’s also the strangeness with the water which was so important it made the previews. Also summarily dropped.

Lots of writer and hence idea turnover here.
Add to that list Lorca's weird “menagerie” where he dissected all sorts of lifeforms in order to weaponize what he finds for a war he really doesn't have a part in. A lot of aspects of the show really only seems to have been incorporated for shock value or to throw random stuff at the audience with no real intention to paying it off later on.
 
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