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The Burn - An event that caused Dilithium to become a scarce resource and broke apart all large centralized governing bodies.
Time Travel Ban - A generalized agreement that bans the use of time travel.
These two things are in fact completely incompatible.
Something like the Time Travel Ban...
What is up with the way the writers seem to be forgetting common technologies this season?
From forgetting that there are ways to generate power without Dilithium, to forgetting sensor, to forgetting ships have things like shields. It seems like every episode so far has been based around some...
In the most recent episode we learned, via Discovery making the trip from Jupiter to Earth in roughly ten seconds with the warp core powered down and all it's Dilithium hidden on another ship, that Discovery's fusion engines can get the ship traveling somewhere around 262 times light speed...
So Gabrielle Burnham changed the timeline causing Control to exist and kill everything in the galaxy by sometime in the 28th century.
But where are the Federation timeships during all this that are immune to timeline changes and should be going around correcting her screwups?