Except for one episode of Discovery ("Point of Light"), which also colored all the blood pink.
Spoilers How it will end, your predictions.
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Except for one episode of Discovery ("Point of Light"), which also colored all the blood pink.
Yeah, I was just reading that when researching alien blood. I'm sure I'm on a list of some kind now.
I just had a thought. Does Osyraa know about the dilithium planet?
When the body count reaches uncountable trillions, harsh is sometimes necessary.
Not here, it isn't.
Su'Kal obviously didn't intend for the Burn to happen. He simply unleashed a powerful, instinctual psychic shockwave in response to the monster's attack. I highly doubt he even knows about the Burn in the first place (and if he were told about it, the shock would probably kill him).
So to blame Su'Kal for the Burn would clearly be monstrous and inhumane.
I trust that a living being will find great solace in that statement as the trigger is pulled.
Su'Kal is the Majin Buu of Discovery. Child-like and hidden away for an eternity. But don't make him upset or he'll destroy EVERYTHING. Only thing that's missing is that he can't turn people into candy.
So, one way or another, Su'Kal will probably have to be "put down".
So, one way or another, Su'Kal will probably have to be "put down".
As I've mentioned before, he didn't do it on purpose or with malice. To execute him is not in keeping with the ideas and ethos expressed by the Federation/Starfleet and in Star Trek.
Intent, when talking about an event of this scale, only matters if it's paired with perfect control, or an impossibility of the event repeating.
But he doesn't have perfect control, and it's been shown that the event can be repeated.
So how are you going to keep him alive, and create a 100% assurance that he won't repeat the event?
Well, this isn't really Star Trek right? Also, people like Georgiou have no place in Star Trek so this kind of idea is not entirely surprising as a response to current Star Trek.
I didn't say he did it maliciously. But someone that powerful and unpredictable is dangerous. How do you keep him from destroying all dilithium again (or worse) if the wrong nerve is ticked off?
The only other way is to take that power away from him. If it's possible.
That's up to writers and the characters in the show. They will either tech the tech and cure him. Or he will die, perhaps making a sacrifice to save the Galaxy. He's not a mad god like Gary Mitchell or the center of the Galaxy guy.
Isn't he more in line with the whale probe from Star Trek IV? Unaware that his response was harmful?
Just take him away from the dilithium planet.
I mean, obviously there's no "100%" assurance that Su'Kal couldn't cause another Burn regardless of his location, but I got the impression that the Burn happened partly (or wholly) due to his proximity to such a huge stash of dilithium.
Remember, Su'Kal developed a connection to that enviornment before he was ever born. For all we know, if he's removed from said environment, he couldn't do any more damage.
Yeah, the "Whale probe" aliens, with all their might were really stupid, I mean how could they not notice that their probe was destroying the environment in which the whales, they were so worried about, lived?
Yep or any other life threatening but misunderstood life form from the Horta to the Cosmic Jellyfish to good old Ripper.
This sort of reminds me of the plot of " Forbidden Planet" in which it was a giant machine inside said planet that was giving life to the monster inside the professor's unconscious. Their solution was to destroy the machine, and the planet along with it.
Maybe they DID notice, and the probe was deliberately attempting to destroy Earth in retaliation for the extinction of the humpback whales...
What are they?
^ Cosmic Jellyfish = the aliens from "Encounter at Farpoint" (TNG)
Ripper = the tardigrade from DSC
Ripper = the tardigrade from DSC
