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Discovery season 4 finale theories

I just hope it's nothing ridiculous. So far we got:
S1: The Klingons, of all people, retreat just before they win the war, because someone they didn't take seriously said she'd blow up her own homeworld.
S2: The mysterious angel is someone we've known all along and the mysterious suit was developed by S31 decades ago.
S3: The big mystery disaster was caused by a crying kid.
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NCC-73515 said:
I just hope it's nothing ridiculous. So far we got:
S1: The Klingons, of all people, retreat just before they win the war, because someone they didn't take seriously said she'd blow up her own homeworld.
S2: The mysterious angel is someone we've known all along and the mysterious suit was developed by S31 decades ago.
S3: The big mystery disaster was caused by a crying kid.
:shifty:
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Well so far we have, mysterious beings from a region that is shrouded by some pseudoscientific bullshit field who are willy-nillingly destroying star systems to extract some particle needed to sustain it, that was also never mentioned before and nobody in the federation has any use for, but someone had an obscure theory about it and that theory was easily recalled and utilized when needed to help them find the bullshit field.

Whatever it is, it is going to have to involve some serious bullshit. There is no way that anyone from the universe would not understand the existence of life and civilization and their reliance on star systems. I vote on the S3 solution. The whole thing was created by some ignorant whiny kid from another universe who created the bullshit field when wirelessly charging their gaming device.
 
dinzy said:
Well so far we have, mysterious beings from a region that is shrouded by some pseudoscientific bullshit field who are willy-nillingly destroying star systems to extract some particle needed to sustain it, that was also never mentioned before and nobody in the federation has any use for, but someone had an obscure theory about it and that theory was easily recalled and utilized when needed to help them find the bullshit field.
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in fact boronite was mentioned in voyager as needed to synthesise omega molecules. As omega molecules can be used as very effective power sources, this can lead into pretty wild territories.
 
Awesome Possum said:
They make contact with species 10C and the DMA was an automated mining craft that due to species 10C being a different form of life wasn't set to avoid planets with carbon based life. They make peace and Book gets redemption by not destroying the DMA which the 10C needed to save their species from extinction which results in them joining the Federation.
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This is a perfect ending, very Trekkian, but there's two issues:
  1. I think that CBS wants to have a big action finish to the season, since they did that with Seasons 2 and 3 (and it was completely narratively unneeded in Season 3. If 10-C isn't shooting at Discovery, who will? Tarka? Keep in mind we've had no serious ship-to-ship combat this season yet at all.
  2. What you outlined could be solved in a single episode, easily. They still need to burn through four of them. So there have to be further complications along the way.
 
eschaton said:
I think that CBS wants to have a big action finish to the season, since they did that with Seasons 2 and 3 (and it was completely narratively unneeded in Season 3. If 10-C isn't shooting at Discovery, who will? Tarka? Keep in mind we've had no serious ship-to-ship combat this season yet at all.
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yes, they could have action trying to stop tarka. I don’t think that having a huge messy space battle is required every season.

eschaton said:
What you outlined could be solved in a single episode, easily. They still need to burn through four of them. So there have to be further complications along the way.
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which is probably why the last few episodes have been pretty much filler: the storyline is pretty much over, with just yeh final part to do.
 
NCC-73515 said:
I just hope it's nothing ridiculous. So far we got:
S1: The Klingons, of all people, retreat just before they win the war, because someone they didn't take seriously said she'd blow up her own homeworld.
S2: The mysterious angel is someone we've known all along and the mysterious suit was developed by S31 decades ago.
S3: The big mystery disaster was caused by a crying kid.
:shifty:
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The DMA are markers left by the final 5 Jedi to mark the route to the home of the protomolecule species.
 
I thought it was twelve with the first ep of Picard and last of Discovery on the same day, last I checked Memory Alpha...

Edit: rechecked, it's 13 with 3 week overlap. I must've misread.
 
If species 10-C is using Boronite to synthesize Omega molecules, that could play havoc with UFP's Omega Directive.
But, what I'd prefer in turn would be that UFP should then realize that harnessing and controlling Omega without damaging subspace would be possible (as USS VOY demonstrated 800 years earlier using the harmonic resonance chamber).

Perhaps a compromise?
10-C could potentially end up joining the Federation. The UFP could share some resources with them to potentially alleviate their energy concerns, meanwhile, 10-C would cease their mining operations in the Milky Way and possible provide some technology for UFP in turn (maybe the energy version of a Dyson Swarm/Sphere if that's what they're using to shroud their star system)?
 
Species 10-C is all but extinct. There are only two of its kind left. Like the Caretaker they were explorers from an unnamed galaxy but are simply trying to get back home themselves using their destructive technology. Running out of time they realize they can't. Rather than die they latch on to the homesick Tarka and take over his body. and give him the power to return to his own cosmos taking them with him. They thank the Federation for their assistance and present it with a gift: a map of their home galaxy and census of its worlds.
 
My prediction:

Arthur Dent / Michael Burnham, a hapless human, is devastated following the destruction of the Earth by the Vogons / Species 10-C (a race of unpleasant and bureaucratic aliens) to make way for an intergalactic bypass. Burnham's adventures intersect with several other characters: Ford Prefect / Cleveland Booker (an alien and researcher for the eponymous guidebook / alien guide nicknamed Book who rescues Burnham from Earth's destruction), Zaphod Beeblebrox / Laira Rillak (the Galactic / Federation President who has stolen / boarded the Heart of Gold / USS Discovery — a spacecraft equipped with Infinite Improbability Drive / Displacement-Activated Spore Hub Drive), the depressed robot / AI Marvin the Paranoid Android / Zora, and Trillian / Tilly who is a woman Arthur / Burnham once met at a party / went to a party with in Islington / on Discovery and who — thanks to Beeblebrox's / President Rillak's invitation to teach at Starfleet Academy — is the only other human survivor / one of many human survivors of Earth's destruction.

In their travels, Arthur / Burnham comes to learn that the Earth was actually a giant supercomputer, created by another supercomputer, Deep Thought / The Other Evil Tentacle AI from Picard which is totally going to turn out to be Control with time travel capability. Deep Thought / Control had been built by its creators to give the answer to the "Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything", which, after eons of calculations, was given simply as "42 / 47". Deep Thought / Control was then instructed to design the Earth supercomputer to determine what the Question actually is. The Earth was subsequently destroyed by the Vogons moments before its calculations were completed, and Burnham becomes the target of the descendants of the Deep Thought / Control creators, believing his / her mind must hold the Question, because Burnham is the center of the universe. With his / her friends' / Books help, Arthur / Burnham escapes and they decide to have lunch at The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, before embarking on further adventures.​

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy
 
Jim Gamma said:
I thought it was twelve with the first ep of Picard and last of Discovery on the same day, last I checked Memory Alpha...

Edit: rechecked, it's 13 with 3 week overlap. I must've misread.
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Oh wow, I legit throught "Rubicon" was the penultimate episode. Concurrent Star Treks FTW!
 
Let's give this another go. Given Disco's penchant for disappointing me in the home stretch, what would piss me off?

- We don't meet 10-C. They're dead. The DMA is part of an automated system re-activated after The Burn.

- 10-C were once highly civilised. Over countless millennia, they devolved (for reasons) into some monstrous techno-Great Link - an oozy freaky nano-particle black mass the size of a planet. It's in an ominous nebula with shitloads of space lightning. The 10-C mass cares only for survival and needs constant replenishment from boronite / omega.
 
Since everything's a Covid metaphor now, having the "baddies" in a literal bubble of isolation doing stuff remotely resonates. And if they died alone in their bubble and left their machines running it plays right into Disco's ongoing themes regarding the need for living beings to connect.

Might suck to be @StarMan in a couple of weeks:lol:
 
It's only one person, the person Tarka met. He had been communicating with him telepathically. But the telepathic version wanted Tarka to stop him, but the person inside the..bubble wasn't aware that it was happening...like that woman on DS9 that Sisko was seeing around the station....

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