Michael Burnham is the Dawn/Key/Buffy's sister of the Star Trek franchise. Reality itself has warped around her, hence all the differences and continuity errors.
She's a renegade Red Angel who chose to hide as a human, used her powers to insert herself into Spock's backstory, and then wiped her own memories.
SMG says you're wrong.
Which SMG? Those initials describe the leads of both franchises.
