Spoilers How far in the future? (Temporal Edict)

[Unionized Elf]

So, Temporal Edict ends in "the far future" where Boimler is still remembered for drafting a regulation allowing Starfleet officers to slack off and Chief O'Brien is remembered as Starfleet's greatest hero (as well he should).

So, anyone care to speculate on how far in the future this scene takes place? Same era as Relativity and its crew? Mr. Daniels's era? Some point relative to Disco's third season, or even circa Calypso (assuming that's even later than Disco season 3)? Some further point in the future altogether?

Let's have fun with this discussion.

 

[NCC-73515]

I hope it has some connection to Disco S3. There's a secluded cult in the woods somewhere where kneeling kids are indoctrinated about Lower Decks heroes XD

 

[King Bob!]

The year 999,999,998.

 

[Lord Garth]

I don't know. But the very end reminded me of the framing sequences of Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973).

 

[SurvivorJoe]

I would kind of love for the O'Brien thing to continue as a background gag in future seasons of Discovery. Never directly addressed, but maybe somebody in the future mentions a "Chief O'Brien Day" or we see a crumbled O'Brien statue in the background of some old Federation colony.

 

[The Hanuk Kai]

I think the gag has more to do with priming us for Discovery rather than giving us a preview of season 3. It is encouraging us to ponder what the more distant future might be like and how the Federation will be remembered.

 

[SolarisOne]

The aesthetics of that last scene remind me of the first scene of Serenity.

 

[F. King Daniel]

The year 999,999,998.

The year is 3 but it's a new calendar and I'm not telling you when it started.

 

[Unionized Elf]

The year is 3 but it's a new calendar and I'm not telling you when it started.

Well, in my head canon, 999 999 998 is what 3 would have been on the old calendar.

 

[Charles Phipps]

Six and a half months from Lower Decks.



Boimler is blamed for the entire debacle.

 

[Tim Thomason]

The year is 3 but it's a new calendar and I'm not telling you when it started.

I'm guessing it started 2 to 3 years prior.

 

[Hythlodeus]

in the year 2525

 

[Hawku]

In the year 3535

 

[FredH]

But the very end reminded me of the framing sequences of Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973).

Closeup on the face of the Boimler holostatue. A single drop of rain rolls down its cheek, uncannily like a tear. Fade out.

 

[The Hanuk Kai]

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[Michael]

Major Grin on YouTube has picked up on the visual similarities between that future scene and a scene from “Serenity”. I wonder if that was somehow done on purpose as a nod to the Firefly 'verse or if someone in the art direction just googled “future classroom” and landed on a screenshot from “Serenity”.

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[King Bob!]

Major Grin on YouTube has picked up on the visual similarities between that future scene and a scene from “Serenity”. I wonder if that was somehow done on purpose as a nod to the Firefly 'verse or if someone in the art direction just googled “future classroom” and landed on a screenshot from “Serenity”.

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I'm almost 50, looking at that makes my knees hurt.

 

[The Hanuk Kai]

Major Grin on YouTube has picked up on the visual similarities between that future scene and a scene from “Serenity”. I wonder if that was somehow done on purpose as a nod to the Firefly 'verse or if someone in the art direction just googled “future classroom” and landed on a screenshot from “Serenity”.

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Kneeling has been present in classrooms long before Firefly. It could be an homage, but I am sure that Major Grin is suggesting more of a theft than a creative choice.

 

[Michael]

Kneeling has been present in classrooms long before Firefly. It could be an homage, but I am sure that Major Grin is suggesting more of a theft than a creative choice.

I don't know what he's suggesting, but I find the similarities uncanny. It's not only the kneeling of the pupils but also the shape of the desks and the general mood and lighting of the scene. Personally I'm leaning toward it being a subtle nod to “Serenity”. Wouldn't surprise me to learn people in the art department are fans of other sci-fi stuff.

 

[King Bob!]

Wouldn't surprise me to learn people in the art department are fans of other sci-fi stuff.

LIES!!!