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So.....What's Your Theory on the Anomalies?

She suspects he is hiding in a sock drawer?

In all seriousness, she is likely looking for clues as to where he's headed off to. Maybe Spock uses the same password for everything and she is able to access his logs that way?
 
They are still using Spock and Pike, hence the TOS crutch.

I tend to think about it more as a purposeful extension/expansion upon the TOS lore. That works for me, since I tend to view "Star Trek" as TOS, and then everything else is derivative. So from my POV, which is admittedly my own unique viewpoint, the close ties to TOS actually enhance my appreciation for the series rather than detract from it.
 
I tend to think about it more as a purposeful extension/expansion upon the TOS lore. That works for me, since I tend to view "Star Trek" as TOS, and then everything else is derivative. So from my POV, which is admittedly my own unique viewpoint, the close ties to TOS actually enhance my appreciation for the series rather than detract from it.
Indeed.
 
Has anyone wondered why Pike needs the Discovery? More sciencey stuff aboard? Or will they need the spore drive to jump within that 30,000LY area?
 
Has anyone wondered why Pike needs the Discovery? More sciencey stuff aboard? Or will they need the spore drive to jump within that 30,000LY area?

Well, the Enterprise had sent a distress call...so maybe she's banged up?

Or...the anomalies are spread out over a vast distance (30,000 LY), so perhaps it's time to unleash the spore drive?

Or...they did say in "Context is for Kings" that the Discovery has the greatest capacity for scientific missions in the fleet.

So, I think you hit most of it.
 
Not a clue, at least not enough of one for me to speculate. However, I did find it interesting that the anomalies are spread across "30,000 light years" of space. That's obviously much bigger than the scope of the Federation — and, indeed, of its neighboring empires. Indeed, the fact that the UFP even detected it in "real time" requires us to infer that it has a network of subspace sensors considerably more widespread than we had previous reason to believe.

I had a brief "urp" because the visual when that happened seemed to show something galaxy-like at a distance. Though the "galaxy" was itself pretty damn red shifted.

I really hope they don't canonically say that the Milky Way is only 30,000 LY across, because that's factually wrong. Unless you try and explain it away by a standard light year now being based upon the year of another planet besides Earth.
 
Well, the Enterprise had sent a distress call...so maybe she's banged up?

Or...the anomalies are spread out over a vast distance (30,000 LY), so perhaps it's time to unleash the spore drive?

Or...they did say in "Context is for Kings" that the Discovery has the greatest capacity for scientific missions in the fleet.

So, I think you hit most of it.

You do see some worker bees flying around the Enterprise when the discovery jumps to warp
 
Whilst I associate Red Matter with the JJ verse, it is supposed to be Prime Spock who used it.

So establishing Spock's innate desire to search for a greater meaning before V'ger. Even if it is a false cry and sets up the possibility of a future Red Matter discovery - it can't do any harm in establishing Spock's future character.

Also it is an excuse for Spock and Burnham to reunite, for us to learn that Spock felt there was something more for him than the Vulcan life, and him feeling envious of Michael, and bitter that his father encouraged her to be of two worlds, but not for him.
 
Im guessing ancient aliens returning, which look vaguely angelic kicking off a "I'm science, they're potentially hostile!"/"I'm faith, they look like angels so must be worshipped!" plotline.

Something about it reminds me of the Shatnerverse Preserver trilogy but I can't put my finger on how.
 
Im guessing ancient aliens returning, which look vaguely angelic kicking off a "I'm science, they're potentially hostile!"/"I'm faith, they look like angels so must be worshipped!" plotline.

Something about it reminds me of the Shatnerverse Preserver trilogy but I can't put my finger on how.
Is there something more out there beyond matter, astral bodies, and stellar gases.

Spock believes there was. Sybok did too. These red beacons, and how they are perceived by the rest of the Galaxy, well speak to the character of those places.
 
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