What was "The Burn" and what caused it?

Not sure if already posted, buuuut what if The Burn was caused by Lorca - and that we see his return in S3?

 

So Lorca gives the codes to the Interglactic Ai, and they nuke the worlds.. they have a plan..

 

it’s an easy joke. But the first thing I think of is a plague of some kind. Something the Federation wasn’t able to stop before it decimated most of the galaxy.

 

So that's how they are going to explain going from Daniels' utopian super Federation to what we see in Disco3 only ~100 years later.

 

I had the same thought - Omega molecules. Could the writers be borrowing elements from unused/rejected/unmade Trek shows (the changed cultures from Bryan Singer and Geoffrey Thorne's Star Trek: Federation, the destruction of much of subspace from Startrek.com's Star Trek: Final Frontier)?

 

What was the Burn? Good question.

I'll let the next showrunner figure it out.

 

I think some power, known or unknown, possibly started intentionally triggering Coronal Mass Ejections in inhabited star systems in order to take out any threats or potential challengers to their dominance of their region of the galaxy.

Normally even a powerful Carrington-Class CME wouldn't pose any serious threat to life on a planet with a strong magnetic field like Earth (nor Trek ships and stations with shields), though it can interfere with electronics, power systems, and radio signals (at least in the present day), but this might be some kind of supercharged CME enhanced by trilithium or some subspace mumbo jumbo like the Hobus Supernova.

We've seen triggering solar flares used as a combat tactic multiple times:

 

This is my take away as well. Maybe this power triggered the CME's simultaneously taking out key systems and facilities in one hit giving the federation no chance to respond.

 

Perhaps "the Burn" is a series of CME's and supernovae beginning in 2387 with the destruction of Romulus's star and extending to Qo'noS's, Vulcan's, Tellar's, Denobula's, Alpha Centauri...

 

I don't remember this, but wasn't the future in Enterprise an alternate timeline where the Federation never came about? And even if the Federation isn't what it once was, it doesn't mean a lot of the core Federation worlds we know aren't completely fine or still functioning.

 

If the interplanetary transporter uses subspace to work, then it gets broken along with warp drive. As a matter of fact, it has to, otherwise it would take years to transport between planets.

 

Doncha mean thrushold?

 

They burned the ham. Burnham. Burnham.

"That ham is you."

 

I also think someone has been playing with those Omega particles in the 32nd century. That said, if subspace was largely destroyed, wouldn't that affect spore drive travel?

 

Ham is served at Easter. Easter celebrates the resurrection of Jesus. Jesus is the Messiah. Therefore Burnham is the Messiah.

 

Which is funny because ham isn't kosher...

 

We stole the name from paganism and the dinner from Judaism. Ham is our only original contribution.

 

I feel odd when I agree with you like the galaxy just took a sudden turn left..

 

Maybe it's all literal. The galaxy itself literally took a sudden turn left and stars crashed into each other, planets were yanked off their orbits etc.