Spoilers I think I cracked "Calypso"

[fireproof78]

Mine is still Warp 10 level bad.

 

[WarpFactorZ]

Does Zora get lonely? Sapient doesn't mean human. Have they mentioned loneliness at all?

In "The Integral Trees" by Larry Niven, a sentient abandoned spacecraft awaits the return of its crew (who never come). To make the time pass, it deletes chunks of its own memory and as a result doesn't experience the full passage of time. Maybe something similar here?

 

[Dukhat]

Only one character used the term "V'draysh" and it was very early in season 3, and then never heard again for the rest of the show. That episode was probably written when they still thought "Calypso" would take place ~1000 years after the first two seasons, but then it becomes pretty clear they had changed their minds. Over the next three seasons, the show went to plenty of places on the fringes of galactic society where you might have expected to hear that term again and it was not spoken once.

Yep, that's my take. Something changed between production of that episode and when they found Starfleet. Suddenly the V'Draysh were no more and the Federation, not unlike the same Federation they left, just with less members and less ships, became the norm.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

So if I interpret this correctly, the Red Directive involving Craft is because Kovich/Daniels knows Craft will become important to the timeline and must be safeguarded?

Doesn't explain the V'Draysh being a thing again, but it's the best I can do.

Concealment.

Indeed.

Since time travel has been banned in the 32nd century, there has to be plausible deniability regarding Discovery's appearance. By changing its registry, Starfleet gets to claim that it's a different ship. Not one from the past.