There are many other continuity issues that have been argued to death and don't need to be rehashed in this thread. However, since the producer says they will be resolved this season I'm sticking with my time-travel theory unless something more plausible comes along.
Other than the tech looking like it's part of a second-decade-21st-century TV show instead of a 1966 TV show, I don't know of any real continuity issues.
Though he'll probably show up in the last 30 seconds or something.
Probably the same reason some people still insist on calling Cornwell "Cornwall".
I figure we have to end up at Vulcan eventually -- Disco still needs to pick up their real new captain, whoever that may be.
Nah, but it did look a lot like that when it first started rising up out of the goo pool.
I wasn't saying that there will be no connections, or that people are wrong to see them. I was saying that I hope that the show itself isn't going to make all these connections concrete. It's more like a checklist than anything if each season 2 episode specifically has a red string tied to another episode in the franchise.
I could be wrong, but I don't think most people were. It seemed more like one person whisper-campaigning it. "That Fünke is some kind of something!"
The complex only had eight of the floaty things, and they were each about 10-20km tall.
Not in the hours it will take the Ba'ul to repair their stuff.
The Federation isn't going to enter into a war to protect a bunch of primitives.
Big ships don't mean they were particularly advanced. It just means they built big. They had something that looked more like ENT era fusion rockets than the kind of drives normally seen in in star trek. they might have warp but since they are isolated they may be very stunted technologically, and throw everything into large planetary defense postures. Large guns are generally only useful if they are mobile enough or can withstand and break sieges.
With the open ended nature of Pike's mission, I'm pretty sure he's been reassigned.
Speaking of timelines, 83 years ago today, somewhere, was this meeting:
Marry Blake Carrington.
"Don't worry Captain Esteban, we found you a great new science vessel instead, makes Discovery look like a high school chemistry lab. The Grissom will pick you up in a couple of days. You're on easy street from here to retirement, sir."
If it's a Prime Directive/General Order One situation they won't, but Pike already decided to intervene, and said he would fire on the Ba'ul to defend the Kelpians, so it seems they were willing to risk war.
It occurred to me once the Ba'ul were revealed to actually be the prey species, their ships followed herd behavior by being big and intimidating, hiding their true numbers, and forming a defensive line/circle for shared defense/offense. So there might be more bark than bite there.
"If you don't want it, Terrell might put in for it. Bateson was thinking about it. Hell even that pointy on Intrepid seemed antsy for a lateral move."
I liked that element, too. It kind of harkens back to what Burnham did to Georgiou....the details of which would have made the rounds.
"What is it with these Shenzhou people, anyway?!?"
Bigger doesn't mean more advanced, true, but it does mean bigger.
