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Burnham not human?
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Didn't her file in "The Butcher's Knief Cares Not For the Something of the Lamb" say that she was born on Earth?
Memory-Alpha says yes, in 2226
Also according to Memory-Alpha, that was the same year Lela Dax died.
Seems so. Her parents traveled, though, so we could always argue she spent a lot of her childhood in high-gravity environments if we so wanted.
She hasn't displayed any extra body strength of other "special powers", though, so attributing this high-gee thing to such seems unwise.
Timo Saloniemi
She hasn't displayed any extra body strength of other "special powers", though, so attributing this high-gee thing to such seems unwise.
Timo Saloniemi
You mean... No special powers other then super intelligence and low level esper abilities...
There is no evidence for any of that.
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Thread title should have been "Science fiction show writers not good at science?"
No smarter than several other "smart" Trek characters, just well-educated.
Any telepathic stuff we've seen has Sarek doing the lifting. Apart from the Angel vision, but again it may be doing all the work.
You seem to be forgetting that those other "smart" characters were either 2-5 times her age, an augment, or a borg.
The one exception to that was Wesley Crusher, who was a giant leap forward in human evolution and basically became an energy being.
Regarding Burnham's apparent physical abilities, we're talking about a franchise where unaugmented humans can comfortably sit through a rapid acceleration to 0.25c with an impulse drive and to over 1000c with a warp drive thanks to the ship's inertial dampers. There's nothing to suggest the pods weren't equipped with them; if there are warp shuttles, then surely shuttle-sized inertial dampers exist as well.
I always assumed one of he Greek Gods diddled Flint's mum.
What made Wesley a giant leap forward in evolution? He certainly was not older than Burnham.
I don't think TOS Kirk is twice Burnham's age.
If "diddling' had been the only thing involved, then Flint would have been nothing but a wet spot in the bed.
Her "low-level esper abilities", if you're referring to her connection to Sarek, were the result of Sarek mind-melding with her to save her life after she was caught in the bombing of the Vulcan Learning Centre as a child. It seems telepathic communication, even if you are only the passive receptor of it, sometimes causes some temporary or permanent alterations to the brain. Riker is able to sense Deanna's thoughts. Even artificial telepathy, as in the case of the Borg Collective, left residual alterations in Picard's brain that allowed him to hear their thoughts even with the cybernetic implants removed.
Plus, there are actual full human telepaths like Miranda Jones from TOS - Is There in Truth No Beauty?, who spent no time on Earth and had lived on Vulcan for a time, though she did it to learn how to control her telepathic abilities.
Gary Mitchell and Elizabeth Dehner both had high "esper ratings".
You mean like Kelvin Kirk, the "genius level repeat offender"?
Above average to genius level intelligence is the norm rather than the exception among the main characters in Trek. Even the more mundane characters exhibit expertise across multiple disciplines that would take most people many years if not decades to acquire.
Burnham came from a family that emphasized travel and education in her early childhood and then after they were killed spent most of her life growing up among an adopted family of geniuses on a planet full of geniuses with some next-level educational techniques. She then attended Starfleet Academy that regularly produces the best of the best. Is it that hard to believe that in addition to her own capacity for intelligence her abilities were honed by coming up through those exceptional systems?
Again, it's hard to see this as anything other than a Mary Sue thread.
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