Which Discovery loose ends bother you the most?

[F. King Daniel]

I love how Starfleet retired the spore drive until a non-human interface can be developed.

I can totally picture Janeway not using it to get home because of this highly important Starfleet regulation

 

[PixelMagic]

I love how Starfleet retired the spore drive until a non-human interface can be developed.

I can totally picture Janeway not using it to get home because of this highly important Starfleet regulation

I don’t think it’s retired. They’ll use it again in Season 2.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I don’t think it’s retired. They’ll use it again in Season 2.

Very probably, and they'll probably remake "Force of Nature" as an excuse to stop using it. But the way it was left off at the end of S1 was kinda hilarious.

 

[Markonian]

Black badges!

My Number 1 issue.

 

[Wulfsa]

Beat me to it!

I was cheating....Sporetexting

 

[DigificWriter]

Why does it matter?

Because the development timeline for Discovery has been well-documented, and what you've outlined doesn't fit into it, at least at first glance, and I would like to see if it's possible to reconcile things.

 

[Butters]

I’d like to know what happened to Klingon hair. Either in-universe or a production reason. What’s the thinking here? Klingon hair is major feature, what happened?

 

[Refuge]

Did Ripper make it home on the rainbow highway of spores that whooshed him away like a shooting star? And what of mirror Ripper? A sweet vegetarian pet to Landry. I worry about this stuff.

 

[Butters]

How did the tardigrade rehydrate in the vacuum?

 

[Wulfsa]

How did the tardigrade rehydrate in the vacuum?

If he can sporejump wherever he wants, maybe he can sporesuck water from everywhere too.

 

[Hythlodeus]

Black badges!

super secret science projects get protected by super elite security guards with black badges, I don't see a loose end here.
Also, with all the freedom Lorca had running his ship, it is not hard to imagine he gave black badges to his crewmen just to look cool and mysterious

 

[CommanderTrip]

How did the tardigrade rehydrate in the vacuum?

If he can sporejump wherever he wants, maybe he can sporesuck water from everywhere too.

The tardigrade obviously generated a force bubble around itself. Not as strong as Leia's of course, but strong enough to allow it to rehydrate.

Now that that is settled, two loose ends that bothered me the most.

1. Black Badges. Mentioned once, never seen or referred to again. Chekov shouldn't be waiving a gun around if he isnt going to eventually do something with it.

2. Discovery's 300 independent scientific missions - a lof of story potential there. Was kind of expecting a twilight zone/mystery of the week type plots due to these ongoing experiments/accidents, but it seems like Discovery became a spore-drive-only ship once we got going plot wise.

 

[Scout101]

super secret science projects get protected by super elite security guards with black badges, I don't see a loose end here.
Also, with all the freedom Lorca had running his ship, it is not hard to imagine he gave black badges to his crewmen just to look cool and mysterious

So did they just lose interest in guarding the super secret science project, or were they all just on smoke break every time we see Discovery for the rest of the season? It didn't get declassified, they never really went anywhere that would allow for changing out the crew complement; if they were needed in episode 2, they should have still been needed in episode 15.

It just got dropped/ignored

 

[Hythlodeus]

So did they just lose interest in guarding the super secret science project, or were they all just on smoke break every time we see Discovery for the rest of the season? It didn't get declassified, they never really went anywhere that would allow for changing out the crew complement; if they were needed in episode 2, they should have still been needed in episode 15.

It just got dropped/ignored

there were no prisoners without security clearance on board in later episodes, why would internal security be needed?

 

[KennyB]

- Fuller was let go because he was trying to multitask and work on two incredibly complicated series - Discovery and American Gods - simultaneously, and CBS needed and wanted him to focus on Discovery exclusively because it was falling behind schedule due to his multitasking and at risk of going over-budget.

Those are the reasons they stated......Fuller has deeper problems and his track record since validate this. He dreams big though.........

 

[lab rat]

Don't forget the Tribble!
The fuzzy fellow just sat there with nobody ever noticing him. Who dosn't notice a Tribble. Yet in 10 years they become all the rage.

And there is the Gorn skeleton. How did Lorca get it in the short time he was on the discovery?

 

[Phily B]

Black badges is the main one, it was focused on and never mentioned or seen again.

Also I didn't quite understand what happened with Tyler, was he a Klingon turned human? Was it just a mind thing?

Is Prime Lorca dead? It is implied that he ended up in the MU. Does that mean he was killed thinking he was Lorca? I'm assuming they just kept it ambiguous so they could bring him back if they wanted to?

Are they going to continue to use the spore drive? I feel like they need to do something drastic with it to rule out it ever being used in the future, Section 31 would've gladly used it regardless of ethical concerns and this isn't mentioning the possibility of Borg or Dominion developing such a technology. So far it only seems ethical concerns would stop them from implementing such a powerful technology.

What happened to the ISS Discovery? Is it in the prime universe?

What is the state of the Federation and Starfleet? They seem to have taken heavy losses and lost a lot of Starbases, will we see significant aftermath of this?

 

[Hythlodeus]

Yet in 10 years they become all the rage.

when I was a kid, yo-yos were oldfashioned and outdated, nevertheless, in the 90s somehow they became 'all the rage'...
hypes and rages happen from time to time

And there is the Gorn skeleton. How did Lorca get it in the short time he was on the discovery?

He bought it?

 

[Hythlodeus]

What happened to the ISS Discovery?

got destroyed in the PU by Klingons as stated in episode 14

 

[ClintDagger]

It’s funny, I was actually thinking they went too far in tying up so many loose ends in 45 minutes of run time. Going in you had Tyler, L’Rell, MU Georgiou, Culber, the spore drive, the Klingon War, Burnham’s fate, would Saru stay on as captain, probably a few more... All as loose ends and all were neatly tied up so that we can move on to a different story in S2. Most of us were thinking a lot of this had to spill over into S2.