Pretty much. I just don't see it happening.
How will season 2 end?
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Pretty much. I just don't see it happening.
Resetting the timeline doesn't mean resetting the show. Properly done, the reset will wipe out Discovery ship and crew (especially Burnham) from the timeline, but they won't cease to exist. That's why them moving to 28th century is so intriguing. They will erase themselves from the timeline but won't cease to exist. Burnham and co, plus Discovery will remain as we know them, with all their history and memory intact. It's just that the rest of the universe will be reset. No biggie.
The Walking Dead. Negan (the bad guy with the bat, you may also know him as the Comedian from The Watchmen) about to go mid-evil on the good guys, and they cut to black and no one knew who he killed until the next season premier (it wasn't pretty, let me just tell you)
Walking Dead I think.
But this is all about those who want the two seasons to be deleted from Federation history so that they are wiped from 'Canon' as they have been chanting for since day one. That will appease some but won't actually solve the problem of the show and CBSAA still existing in our timeline which is actually the main gripe.
Still wipes from history the 1 seasons of DSC I've watched. I'd feel like I wasted my time watching the first 2 seasons.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves. We haven't seen the season finale yet, as of this typing. If that's what happens, and that's what we see, and you still think the same, then fair enough.
Why? Didn't you enjoy them when you were watching them?
I have no clue what they are going to do. I just hope whatever it is, it is entertaining.
Outside of happenings on the ship itself we didn’t see much. If the ship and crew are still there, what is the big loss if timeline is reset?
Would going beyond Picard and making Picard now a prequel show be better?
I don't think they are going to reset the TL any longer, but they absolutely had some hints over the later half of the season which suggested they were going that route.
- In the episode The Red Angel, they were explicit that the suit needed "the power of a supernova" to get away from their anchor point. They also began the episode with young Michael watching the supernova the night her father was killed and her mother was lost in time. It wouldn't be surprising if this was foreshadowing Michael revisiting that point in time, somehow fixing the scenario so that nothing ever happened to her parents and she was never adopted by Sarek and Amanda, which would cause many butterflies.
- Then later on, in Through the Valley of Shadows, the Control-Posessed mook explicitly said that the decision which pushed along Control on the path to self-awareness was Section 31 ramping up AI research after the Klingon War. Butterfly the Klingon War, and no Control. If you hold to the belief that Burnham "caused" the Klingon War, that means that the scenario in the first bullet would solve the Control problem.
The whole war in season 1 hasn't happened. The work with pike and enterprise in season 2 doesn't happen. Everything discovery did for 2 seasons just didn't happen.
I love how that's going to fuck with some people. "Yes! The Picard Show! No more prequels!" "Actually, Discovery takes place even further in the future now, so The Picard Show kind of is a prequel!" "What?!"
But we've had a situation like this before. When TUC came out, I didn't think of it as a prequel, nor did I think of the first 15 minutes of GEN as a prequel. I just saw Star Trek as taking place during two different periods at the same time: the TOS Movie Era and the TNG Era. The situation we'll have with Picard and Discovery will be the same.
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I just don't think they'd do that. Anything DSC learns in the future about what happened to the federation or the klingons now becomes canon unless you throw DSC into another galaxy or parallel universe. You know DSC would want to know what the state of starfleet and so forth is.
We'll find out soon though.
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