What was "The Burn" and what caused it?

[Cyrus]

I see a lot of posts about Romulans and their singularity drive. Romulans , if they are still around, are refugees with no homeworld (unless they resettled somewhere). The writers don’t need to deal with Romulan warp drives unless we see some Romulans this season, maybe in that unification episode.

 

[fireproof78]

Do we really need a checklist? Because that would totally sound like naturalistic dialog.

I'm thinking more opening crawl like Star Wars.

 

[Nerys Myk]

The Burn might have united the Romulan and Vulcan peoples. That might be a faction Discovery encounters.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I see a lot of posts about Romulans and their singularity drive. Romulans , if they are still around, are refugees with no homeworld (unless they resettled somewhere). The writers don’t need to deal with Romulan warp drives unless we see some Romulans this season, maybe in that unification episode.

There is an upcoming episode called "Unification III". (Obviously a sequel to Unifications I and II from TNG.) I suspect it will involve

... what @Geoff Peterson said.

 

[Noname Given]

The Burn might have united the Romulan and Vulcan peoples. That might be a faction Discovery encounters.

^^^
And they renamed themselves Nietzscheians.

 

[SJGardner]

Oooh, what about soliton waves? And whatever the Cytherians and the Caretaker used to transport ships halfway over the galaxy? Tash's graviton catapult? Vaadwaur subspace corridors? Sikarian spatial trajectors and Iconian gateways? The Traveler's abilities? Starfleet must surely have reverse-engineered all of these by now... it's been 800 years, after all. Why hasn't Discovery told us about them all yet?

Or, as Our Man Bashir can attest to, the transporter patterns of people can be stored on computer hard drives for hours before they would degrade, even if they use all available space in Deep Space Nine's computer core... but it's the 32nd century; surely the average hard drive storage space must be several billion times more than what it was 800 years ago... so why don't they just digitize people's transporter patterns and transmit them over to the destination as raw data and rematerialize them with a transporter there?

...okay, that's it, I can't think of anything else that hasn't already been brought up. Anyone else?

 

[Nerys Myk]

I'm thinking more opening crawl like Star Wars.

STAR TREK CHAPTER VII
The Age of Discovery
It is a time of chaos in the Galaxy
The Burn has nearly extinguished all forms
of faster than light travel through out the Galaxy
For those of you keeping track those forms include

1. Warp Drive
2. Singularity Drives
3. Slipstream Drive
4. Transwarp Drive
5. Drive (by the Cars)
6. Baby You Can Drive My Car (The Beatles)
7. She Drives Me Crazy (Fine Young Cannibals)
8. I Can't Drive 55 (Sammy Hagar)

 

[BillJ]

The Burn has nearly extinguished all forms
of faster than light travel through out the Galaxy

People seem to get a great deal of joy making fun of the fans that bring up shortcomings, but fans weren’t the ones who defined what The Burn was, the writers did. They went to great lengths to spell it out.

 

[fireproof78]

People seem to get a great deal of joy making fun of the fans that bring up shortcomings, but fans weren’t the ones who defined what The Burn was, the writers did. They went to great lengths to spell it out.

Cool. Its still early.

 

[Nerys Myk]

People seem to get a great deal of joy making fun of the fans that bring up shortcomings, but fans weren’t the ones who defined what The Burn was, the writers did. They went to great lengths to spell it out.

I was making fun of fans who want laundry lists.

 

[Yistaan]

The fact that apparently everyone has decided on a term, the Burn, means there was still a lot of interstellar communication going on to give the destruction of dilithium a name.

 

[Nerys Myk]

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The fact that apparently everyone has decided on a term, the Burn, means there was still a lot of interstellar communication going on to give the destruction of dilithium a name.

The people we’ve met have.

 

[Fateor]

And which race uses transwarp the most? They can't give away plot twists too early...

By the 32nd century? Everybody.

Hell, they had the ability to access Transwarp corridors in Picard.

 

[Yistaan]

Giant deity: Hi Burnham, it's God. I caused the Burn after your buddy Book gave me a starship, and in return I gave him those nifty powers he now has. If only your brothers had given me a starship all those centuries ago, it wouldn't have needed to go this far.

Burnham: What? Wow, Spock and Sybok must have been up to some really strange adventures after I left. Well, I guess it's time to see if a god can bleed.

To be continued...

 

[SJGardner]

Giant deity: Hi Burnham, it's God. I caused the Burn after your buddy Book gave me a starship, and in return I gave him those nifty powers he now has. If only your brothers had given me a starship all those centuries ago, it wouldn't have needed to go this far.

Burnham: What? Wow, Spock and Sybok must have been up to some really strange adventures after I left. Well, I guess it's time to see if a god can bleed.

To be continued...

Georgiou, looking down at God with unmasked disdain after wuxia fighting him to a pulp: "Tch. Puny God."

 

[Nerys Myk]

By the 32nd century? Everybody.

Hell, they had the ability to access Transwarp corridors in Picard.

We've been in the 32nd Century for just under an hour. It's a bit early to say who has what..

 

[Nyotarules]

I've never seen any real evidence the Federation has a culture of its own. It seems like all the member worlds pretty much have their own cultures intact. Earth certainly had a (rather beige/homogenized) culture, but it doesn't seem to have been really influenced by offworlders in any systematic fashion.

The only Earth culture we saw was either North American or French, the other 200 nation states never got a look in.

 

[Nerys Myk]

The only culture we saw was either North American or French, the other 200 nation states never got a look in.

I think IDIC and the Prime Directive are part of the Federation's Culture.

 

[Lord Garth]

Some people are after Instant Gratification. They want to do know everything about everything "Now! Now! Now!"

If you don't have the patience to wait 13 weeks to find things out, then either 1) this series isn't for you, or 2) you should just wait until the last episode has aired so you can binge it all at once and find out quickly while you're watching instead of over a period of months.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Some people are after Instant Gratification. They want to do know everything about everything "Now! Now! Now!"

If you don't have the patience to wait 13 weeks to find things out then either 1) the series isn't for you, or 2) you should just wait until the last episode has aired so you can binge it all at once and find quickly while you're watching instead of over a period of months.

Exactly. Expecting that everything about the Burn and the state of the Galaxy was going to be answered in the first episode iis pretty foolish. Even Book, who is our "native guide", doesn't have all the facts and may have gained information second or third hand.