Discovery crew saved whole universe?

If you're using multiverse in the sense that physicists do - which is what I thought they were saying at the time - it means it contains all possible universes, everywhere - whether that is a finite or infinite number. Hence, the multiverse can only be destroyed once. The logical conclusion of this then is if there are an infinite number of universes the multiverse cannot be destroyed, because there would have been an infinite number of chances earlier in chronological history than the present for it to be destroyed (if it even makes sense to talk about time flow when comparing individual universes).

That said, it does strike me that the writers might have been using "multiverse" in an inexact way, referring to Prime, the MU, and a relatively small number of other universes, not the whole shebang.

 

Sometimes people say things. Sometimes I say the world is f****d and I actually just mean my home town or my life.

Not everything Burnham says has to be factually correct or perfect

 

Precisely so.

It amazes me how often fictional characters are expected to be 100% literal in their speech.

 

Fair enough if they are reading something off the ships computer it should be accurate but if they are just making a remark then it is probably exaggerated or a little inaccurate just like when any of us say something

 

What? You're not 100% literal all the time?

 

I'm the most literal person in the whole galaxy

 

I didn't take it anything other than a bit of hyperbole myself. Why should we take anything a character says as factual and 100% accurate? Even if it's unintentional (which it probably is), I don't feel like making a fuss over it. Sci-fi writers have always had no sense of scale, just like when Kruge called the Federation a bunch of intergalactic criminals because of Genesis.

 

Or, when the Klingon Ambassador declares "There will be no peace as long as Kirk lives!"

Unless I watched the wrong edit of TUC and Kirk dies at the end? O_o

 

Amazing that someone thought that statement was a "gotcha moment".

 

It seems like writers at times confuse galaxies with the universe, thinking the entire universe IS the galaxy.