Plots for season 4 (satire, indirect spoilers)

[Nyotarules]

Plot for season 4
A mysterious disease sweeps through the Federation, the source of the fatal disease is a planet called Rona home to the species the Co'Ronanains. Symptoms include a dry cough, lose of smell and non stop flatulence.
After taking a two week medical course Doctor Burnham and her medical assistants Pollard and Culbert spend the season trying to find a cure

 

[The Wormhole]

Arc for the season involves the restored Federation getting back into the swing of things. Various episodic plots include:

-Revisiting one of the parallel Earth planets from TOS, which now resembles TOS-style 23rd century.
-Remember the Klingons? They're back and they have a new look, which they refuse to talk about.
-A Kovich centered episode in which we learn he and Carl/Guardian of Forever have history.
-Tilly, still settling into the position of first officer suddenly realizes the ship has no chief medical officer, chief of security or chief engineer, so she requests 32nd century officers to fill those roles. By the end of the episode, these replacements only got in the way and somehow almost got the ship destroyed, leaving those positions vacant again. They remain so for the rest of the season.
-Two part Kelvin timeline crossover, featuring A-List celebrities playing the Kelvin Disco crew. Well, A-listers as those who are in the main cast, B-listers for the secondary bridge officers like Detmer and Owo and the others.
-Then we spend the remaining episodes building up to a show down with a big bad who is revealed in the finale to be the tentacle-monster that showed up in the Picard season 1 finale.

 

[antinoos]

Season 4, Episode 5

Discovery visits a class M planet after receiving a powerful distress signal from an array of satellites orbiting the planet that is picked up from the surface. After determining that the inhabitants belong to a pre-warp civilization, a landing party beams to the surface disguised looking like the local population, to search for the source of the signal.

After 3 weeks on the planet, the Disco crew members conclude that people are all fans of a space opera show and the signal is generated every 2nd day of their 5-day week when the fans spend all day crying in unison about the lead character of the show being emotional. (landing party leader notes that the inhabitants are oblivious of the irony)

Discovery leaves orbit and reports to Starfleet that the planet is of no significance and should not be contacted for another 5 centuries at least.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Two part Kelvin timeline crossover, featuring A-List celebrities playing the Kelvin Disco crew. Well, A-listers as those who are in the main cast, B-listers for the secondary bridge officers like Detmer and Owo and the others.

Burnham- Kerry Washington
Saru- Jeff Goldblum
Stamets- Neil Patrick Harris
Culber-Lin Manuel Miranda
Tilly-Bryce Dallas Howard or Jessica Chastain

 

[Shawnster]

No, I love it! It is Star Trek like we never saw before...
Seriouslly, the show was bad written, and except Saru, Staments and Reno, the other characters has zero charisma. But looks like they will ruin Saru and Burnham will take the command.

Aw, what? I like your list, but I'd include Tilly, too. I wish they'd show that she's putting on a front, though, acting the confident command performance. I think her "fake it until you make it" attitude would suit some great character growth.

Other than Tilly, I think you named all my favorite characters. However, Hugh is growing on me. I just need to get over the stupid way they brought him back from the dead.

 

[Quinton]

Yeah, but the previous incarnacions where enjoyable, way to much better written in the vast majority of the episodes.
Disco is bad... In fact I think the last season started well to be honest, at least the first 3 episodes, but after that... Gene must be revolving in the tomb.

Only one flaw with this: It's a good show.

 

[fireproof78]

Only one flaw with this: It's a good show.

Only one flaw?

 

[Tim Thomason]

Gene must be revolving in the tomb.

Roddenberry was cremated and his ashes shot into space.

 

[Discofan]

Roddenberry was cremated and his ashes shot into space.

Maybe these ashes are caught in a space maelstrom...

Btw, what the hell is a storm in space!!! You can't have a storm in space, for one thing in order to have lightning you need an electrical insulator to go through (the air for example) There's no air in space!!! It's like those writers never cracked a book!!

 

[fireproof78]

Maybe these ashes are caught in a space maelstrom...

Btw, what the hell is a storm in space!!! You can't have a storm in space, for one thing in order to have lightning you need an electrical insulator to go through (the air for example) There's no air in space!!! It's like those writers never cracked a book!!

Good grief; how many plasma storms, lighting effects and other space anomalies have had lightning effects in space?

 

[Discofan]

Good grief; how many plasma storms, lighting effects and other space anomalies have had lightning effects in space?

Indeed.

 

[antinoos]

You can't have a storm in space

You can, e.g. a solar storm

There's no air in space!!!

There is
Air and air, what is air?
In Earth's atmosphere it's mostly nitrogen and oxygen
In space it's usually hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe

 

[Discofan]

You can, e.g. a solar storm

There is
Air and air, what is air?
In Earth's atmosphere it's mostly nitrogen and oxygen
In space it's usually hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe

There's less gas in space than in a vacuum tube!!! MUCH LESS!!!!

Do you know why they call them vacuum tubes?


Seriously!

Next thing we know you're going to tell us that there are sounds in space too!!!

 

[antinoos]

There's less gas in space than in a vacuum tube!!! MUCH LESS!!!!

If by space you mean the observable universe, I bet there's a lot more gas in the universe than in a tube. And yes, the gas in space is less dense than in our atmosphere. Also, space is not a complete vacuum. There's always stuff out there, photons, neutrinos, cosmic rays, gas and dust particles. The average density of the universe is 6 protons per cubic meter. In scifi these "storms" happen in nebulae which are more dense than average, so I can suspend my disbelief.

Next thing we know you're going to tell us that there are sounds in space too!!!

If there's a medium sound waves can propagate through it. The higher the density is, the better the sound quality you're gonna get

 

[Discofan]

If by space you mean the observable universe, I bet there's a lot more gas in the universe than in a tube. And yes, the gas in space is less dense than in our atmosphere. Also, space is not a complete vacuum. There's always stuff out there, photons, neutrinos, cosmic rays, gas and dust particles. The average density of the universe is 6 protons per cubic meter. In scifi these "storms" happen in nebulae which are more dense than average, so I can suspend my disbelief.

The gas in the"densest" parts of these nebulae is less than one billionth of the density inside the aforementioned vacuum tubes. In fact, we can't with our modern technology produce vacuums as empty as the inside of these "dense" nebulae.

 

[Starship]

Gene must be revolving in the tomb.

Roddenberry was cremated and his ashes shot into space.

Tim, "revolving in the tomb" is just a popular expression. Don´t means the dead man needs to be in the tomb in fact....

 

[Discofan]

Tim, "revolving in the tomb" is just a popular expression. Don´t means the dead man needs to be in the tomb in fact....

"Turn in his grave" is the expression as I recall.

I am not a "fan" of "revolving"...

See what I did there?

 

[Dryson]

Two Plots

Was the monument to Wolf 359 salvaged after the Burn for much needed parts or does it still exist waiting to be the rebirth of Starfleet?

With Michael Burnham making herself the savior of Starfleet and Federation will she learn about Fluidic Space and the propulsion system of the Undine that isn't based on dilithium to launch raids against the Undine to steal their technology?

 

[Dryson]

Yeah, but the previous incarnacions where enjoyable, way to much better written in the vast majority of the episodes.
Disco is bad... In fact I think the last season started well to be honest, at least the first 3 episodes, but after that... Gene must be revolving in the tomb.

Discovery has gone where no Trek has gone before.

 

[Discofan]

Discovery: If you hate it, you're gonna hate it.