Tech in Discovery S3

[Isaac Lawrence]

EDIT: Cleveland Booker's ship, presumably? [More images below]

Anyway, so my new favorite character, Cleveland Booker, says...

“It’s going to be fun to see characters and species from previous iterations of Star Trek, but 1,000 years in the future, that’s going to be fun,” Ajala says. “The technology is a big deal, my character’s spaceship is incredible, aesthetically, and in terms of what it can do. Specifically, in Episode 7, there is a moment where you see how incredible technology can be.”

So November 26th, episode 7... "Unification III."

(And the cynic in me will predict that that will also be another day when there will be those that say that this isn't Star Trek. But I'm in a good mood, so I'll tell the cynic in me to be quiet.)

 

[Fateor]

Well we learned from that preview article that

Spoiler

time travel was outlawed after the Temporal Cold War.

You fundamentally can't outlaw time travel because people in the future/past won't respect that law.

So if they try to claim that, plot hole.

 

[Lord Garth]

(And the cynic in me will predict that that will also be another day when there will be those that say that this isn't Star Trek. But I'm in a good mood, so I'll tell the cynic in me to be quiet.)

After three years, I know how to handle them. I've got it down to a science.

 

[Awesome Possum]

You fundamentally can't outlaw time travel because people in the future/past won't respect that law.

So if they try to claim that, plot hole.

That's what the Timecops are for.

 

[Isaac Lawrence]

After three years, I know how to handle them. I've got it down to a science.

Science!

I don't think this is too spoiler-y, but couple the info from the article the other day...

The first person that Burnham encounters in 3188 is a swarthy pirate type named Cleveland "Book" Booker (David Ajala), a courier with a love of animals and a fat cat named Grudge. Book helps Burnham acclimate to her new life in the future before she can reunite with the rest of the Discovery crew...

...with the new IGN images...

1)

...and 2)

...and (more) Grudge

...and I can see where the whole swarthy pirate-type "with a love of animals and a fat cat named Grudge" comes from.

And unrelated, but Adira looking smart in what I assume is their 32nd century uni....

 

[Awesome Possum]

I need more Grudge in my life.

 

[fireproof78]

And unrelated, but Adira looking smart in what I assume is their 32nd century uni....

I quite like that uniform though it reminds me of another TNG uniform, I can't remember the episode.

 

[eschaton]

I love the wood paneling in Book's ship. I've felt Star Trek needs some touches like that for a long time. "Futuristic" is not some straight arrow after all. Different designs go in and out fashion depending upon the era.

 

[Lord Garth]

I love the costuming and design of the 32nd Century. They knocked it out of the park with these.

 

[Fateor]

That's what the Timecops are for.

Time Cops whom require time travel technology to do their job with any effectiveness?

 

[NCC-73515]

I quite like that uniform though it reminds me of another TNG uniform, I can't remember the episode.

Rutian?

 

[fireproof78]

Rutian?

Looks right.

 

[Awesome Possum]

Time Cops whom require time travel technology to do their job with any effectiveness?

How else are you going to capture time fugitives? Police tend to get to do things that the public can't.

 

[Fateor]

How else are you going to capture time fugitives? Police tend to get to do things that the public can't.

Again though, that requires Time Travel technology, otherwise they will just pop out or never get caught in the first place because Time Travel.

 

[Awesome Possum]

Again though, that requires Time Travel technology, otherwise they will just pop out or never get caught in the first place because Time Travel.

That's why you have Timecops to stop them. Have you never seen Timecop? It's most accurate depiction of time travel ever filmed, it's practically a documentary. In it, time travel is illegal. But people still use it illegally because things that are illegal don't cease to exist (like drugs). So there are time cops monitoring the timeline so they can stop them.

 

[CorporalClegg]

I want to hold a Grudge.

 

[Fateor]

That's why you have Timecops to stop them. Have you never seen Timecop? It's most accurate depiction of time travel ever filmed, it's practically a documentary. In it, time travel is illegal. But people still use it illegally because things that are illegal don't cease to exist (like drugs). So there are time cops monitoring the timeline so they can stop them.

Which again requires the Time Cops have Time Travel technology themselves.

This is saying it was outlawed period, as in, nobody is allowed to have it.

 

[Awesome Possum]

Which again requires the Time Cops have Time Travel technology themselves.

This is saying it was outlawed period, as in, nobody is allowed to have it.

It's illegal to shoot people, but cops can shoot people. This shouldn't be such a difficult concept for you.

 

[Agony_Boothb]

You fundamentally can't outlaw time travel because people in the future/past won't respect that law.

So if they try to claim that, plot hole.

Who cares. The temporal cold war/ time cop starfleet are among the worst concepts the franchise has produced.

Time travel has never made sense anyway. For example why didn't the time cops stop future janeway for wrecking the timeline? Or clean up the mess left from the borg trying to assimilate earth on 2063?

 

[SolarisOne]

Maybe it's the Whovian in me showing, but the Temporal Cold War was ... tame.

For example why didn't the time cops stop future janeway for wrecking the timeline?

Her doing that may be the only thing that allowed them to exist in the first place.