Not going to happen - whilst I still think there are loose ends to tie up, I honestly don't think they are still stuck in the writers' corner where a reset is required to put things right. I really really hope I'm right - with some good writing they can get through the finale without resets, which they know will drive people insane.
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Blowing up the Klingon Homeworld would be as big of a mistake as Blowing up Vulcan in the JJ Films
So, reset it is :/
Isn't it far more likely that that is the new Spore Planet blowing up?
Doesn't look like it.
That isn't good writing.
I dunno. Given Ash=Voq and MU Lorca were popular fan theories which turned out to be 100% true (and somewhat inexpertly done) I think the most plausible close to the season is something as straightforward and on-the-nose as possible.
That said, as I mentioned upthread, in order to stop Qo'noS from being destroyed, they just need to jump back to right after they left for the MU and give the cloak codes. They don't need to go all the way back to before the BotBS.
Which makes me think reset, but also considering alternate timeline.
They gave us hints towards both of those.
And they gave pretty strong hints in the last episode that what happens this Sunday might have some finality to it. Sarek said goodbye to Burnham in a way that made it sound like he'd never see her again (and we know he isn't dying). Burnham and Tilly had a long conversation about "not coming back." This doesn't have to imply a reset, but that's one possibility. Another is they get stranded in an alternate universe again, or that several of the main cast members die or are otherwise erased from history.
The writers have also said we'll see the Federation we know from the other series in Season 2.
None of the darkness from this season.
From a thematic standpoint, I have felt for awhile the best possible ending would be if the Discovery goes back in time to Doctari Alpha. Burnham would save her birth parents, causing her to be raised by them and not Sarek. This would cause our Burnham to vanish, and deal with the question of why we never hear Spock mention Burnham in the PU.
That said, there are problems with closing the season this way - the largest being that although Burnham won't be there to kll the torchbearer and T'Kumva, presumably he's still going to be working on his ship and plan an attack at some point. So no Burnham would change the war, but it wouildn't avert it entirely.
Having a De facto time machine built into the spore drive, a spare Georgiou and two Klingons providing intel on what happened at the battle qualifies as hints towards the reset. They just have to Prisoner of Azkaban it...which they can do. Empress goes and dies in phillipas place (which is fine, because if she does, she will never have been deposed in the first place, so she’s just a splinter from an unused future.) or replaces Phillipa in the walking out of the ready room scene and opens fire. Burnham knocked out Phillipa remember?
Or they go right back, and replace Michael in environmental suit with herself and she....takes the hand of the torchbearer rather than kills him.
And she does it all, and then meets the ‘real’ ash Tyler, giving everyone their lives back. (The big themes are all about not being true to yourself because of an overlaid aspect...Vulcan conditioning on a human, Human on a Klingon, mirror on Prime, Prime on Mirror....and Alice has to wake up and realise it was all a dream.)
Now...the existence of season 2 muddies that, but I would bet that was the original arc.
It will echo the ‘lets Try this again, i’m Michael burnham’ scene in the cafeteria.
If they push the reset button then I would consider this another Carry On Star Trek show and laugh all the way to the overdraft in my bank account.
Another?
They've had what ? 2 years to lay this story out, They have known all along that the first season of DSC would be one season long arc telling a story from Trek history that's often been hinted at but never shown.
If they do choose to dust off the reset button next week it would be the biggest letdown since the Lost finale.
It can't happen.
The destruction of ( what looks like) Qu'onos could be explained away quite easily. It's not Qu'onos, It's mirror Qu'onos, it's one of Stamets visions of the future if The Emperor gets her way.
If they do choose to dust off the reset button next week it would be the biggest letdown since the Lost finale.
It can't happen.
The destruction of ( what looks like) Qu'onos could be explained away quite easily. It's not Qu'onos, It's mirror Qu'onos, it's one of Stamets visions of the future if The Emperor gets her way.
Or it’s praxis, and they did end the war..in the opening to Star Trek vi....damn time jumping shroom ship.
Star Trek Into the Darkness via Transwarp beaming. In the cinema I laughed so much I almost wet me panties
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Ah yes. I watched that on a friends copy in two halves. It was a bit wasn’t it. Of course, I am now mentally recasting it with Syd James and Co...makes the shuttle changing scene much more entertaining, on the subject of underwear. That would probably be Babs role. Though Hattie Jacques could make it even more amusing, especially if we go for say...oh, forgotten little serious fellows name...as McCoy. Kenneth as Spock obviously. Or Khan. Charles Hawtrey for whichever one he doesn’t get. And...hmm...mind is going blank on the actors names. Alan Dale as Chekhov. Bernard Bresslaw as Scotty.
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