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Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 4x13 - "Coming Home"

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Found it a bit predictable and flat but still enjoyable. Literally laughed out loud when everyone suddenly remembered they could comm-badge teleport...
 
Heh...it's funny to me because I was like "That's real life right there!"

I have so many people in my life who are talking with me on the phone and go "Where's my phone at?" And then realize it's in their hand.

Humans are amazing.
 
Maybe, but most of the time people know where their phones are with just that momentary lapse. Considering how extra they were last season about it (comm-badge teleporting) being one of the 31st century magic-techs, it has been conspicuously absent this season. Until this episode.
 
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Maybe, but most of the time people know where their phones are with just that momentary lapse. Considering how extra they were last season about it being one of the 31st century magic-techs, it has been conspicuously absent this season. Until this episode.
Hahaha...sorry, I see more than just lapses across multiple ages and populations.

Missing out the whole season, OK, fine, I guess. But lapses in forgetting tech? See that every freaking day.
 
Maybe it would not take decades to get home if they weren’t constantly turning at warp.
This is also proof positive that warp travel in the 32nd century isn't significantly faster than in the 24th century.
 
Clearly the Federation has spent its efforts on Teleportation Tech and Programmable Matter. The holograms and Warp Drive are not much improved from what we knew. Perhaps this is a long-term result of the Picard-era isolationism. You'd think Voyager's many alternative engines would have propelled (pun intended) things ahead more, but apparently not!

Anyway, making detachable warp nacelles functional probably took up most of the engineering effort in the intervening centuries.
 
You'd think Voyager's many alternative engines would have propelled (pun intended) things ahead more, but apparently not!
It's more a matter of how reliable they can make these engines. What Starfleet and the Federation demonstrates, repeatedly, is that if a technology comes with any sort of negative cost it gets either banned or no longer developed. While this may be seemingly unrealistic it is very much a real part of the Trek world. So, Dilithium was kept because it was a known quantity, while anything Voyager was either unknown, or deemed too risky. And, in this case, "risky" means pretty much one death. Otherwise, Warp 10 would be used.
 
Which is silly. They are really making the 32nd century look bad.

Yup. Between the 2160s and the 2360s, the general rule of thumb was that ships got four times faster every century (NX-01 tops out at ~125c, 1701 at ~512c, 1701-D at ~2000c). If that had continued to hold true between the 24th and 32nd century, ships should be able to cross the entire galaxy within a couple of days. Even if the rate of technological development had dropped to warp capabilities only doubling in speed every century, ships would still be able to cross the entire galaxy in less than six months. But instead it's "decades" for Discovery to cross ~30,000 lightyears.
 
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