Spoilers My main suspects for the anomaly.

[Turd Ferguson]

The Risan scientist said that it appears to have been sent through a tunnel of sorts in space-time, which could tie into the anomaly being created during the Temporal Wars and originating in a previous century.

The scientist also theorized there was an object at the center of the DMA and it was mentioned Starfleet was working on a next-gen Spore Drive. I'm wondering if something goes a bit fucky with it in the future when they test it and the end up creating the DMA? It would also explain why the DMA is able to "jump" without warning. Plus, it'd be kinda poetic for Stamets to find out he's sorta responsible for creating the DMA while swearing to Book that he'd find the source of the DMA.

 

[Paul755]

just please don’t be Control looking for the spore data.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

just please don’t be Control looking for the spore data.

That was another idea I had. Control was never really beaten, Discovery just jumped into the future to evade it. I suppose Control could've evolved and become the DMA. With Zora evolving too, Discovery could be forced to jump even further in the future (or the past) and hang out for 1,000 years in the nebula waiting for her crew to return...

Meanwhile, Captain Burnham could be given a brand spanking new 32nd century ship named "Discovery" to keep the show going

 

[Paul755]

That was another idea I had. Control was never really beaten, Discovery just jumped into the future to evade it. I suppose Control could've evolved and become the DMA. With Zora evolving too, Discovery could be forced to jump even further in the future (or the past) and hang out for 1,000 years in the nebula waiting for her crew to return...

Meanwhile, Captain Burnham could be given a brand spanking new 32nd century ship named "Discovery" to keep the show going

that’s so damn plausible. Especially if they are still set on connecting this to the episode of Short Treks.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

DMA backwards = AMD, this chip shortage is the cover to the AI forming that will doom us centuries later. It's no coincidence a Ryzen scientist is involved.

 

[danellis]

"It could hold a crew of... tens of thousands of Okonas."
"Or a crew of a thousand Okonas ten times as Outrageous!"
"And don't even get me started on the salamander math. I'm a doctor, not a... uhhhh salamander scientist."

vet?

dJE

 

[danellis]

The scientist also theorized there was an object at the center of the DMA and it was mentioned Starfleet was working on a next-gen Spore Drive. I'm wondering if something goes a bit fucky with it in the future when they test it and the end up creating the DMA? It would also explain why the DMA is able to "jump" without warning. Plus, it'd be kinda poetic for Stamets to find out he's sorta responsible for creating the DMA while swearing to Book that he'd find the source of the DMA.

I was expecting that experiment in the last episode to end up creating the DMA.

dJE

 

[Ketrick]

Considering what happened in the third episode of this season which involved a lost civilization, perhaps the DMA is a piece of lost technology from a lost civilization that was found and activated, but because either it was damaged still or not activated properly it started destroying everything instead of keeping its original benign purpose which perhaps was a form of mass terraforming.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

The anomaly was created by the mind and pen of Benny Russell

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

Considering what happened in the third episode of this season which involved a lost civilization, perhaps the DMA is a piece of lost technology from a lost civilization that was found and activated, but because either it was damaged still or not activated properly it started destroying everything instead of keeping its original benign purpose which perhaps was a form of mass terraforming.

Its ring builder tech that has been activated with must be why that Earther is so interested in it

 

[IMC Headquarters]

NOMAD's ghost. That's what it is.

(Not)

Um...what have the Borg been up to?

And what about those little critters from "Conspiracy"?

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

NOMAD's ghost. That's what it is.

(Not)

Um...what have the Borg been up to?

And what about those little critters from "Conspiracy"?

Who the "hell" sent the whale probe ?

 

[cooleddie74]

The anomaly was created by the mind and pen of Benny Russell

Or Tommy Westphall.

 

[TedShatner10]

The scientist also theorized there was an object at the center of the DMA and it was mentioned Starfleet was working on a next-gen Spore Drive. I'm wondering if something goes a bit fucky with it in the future when they test it and the end up creating the DMA? It would also explain why the DMA is able to "jump" without warning. Plus, it'd be kinda poetic for Stamets to find out he's sorta responsible for creating the DMA while swearing to Book that he'd find the source of the DMA.

The next-gen spore drive is perhaps not the main culprit, but could've been hijacked by Control (or some other malevolent AI) and it grew into a bigger machine entity on a similar scale to V'Ger or the Whale Probe.

 

[Farscape One]

Why can't the DMA be something from another galaxy?

Or how about this idea that could connect it to TNG.

The DMA traveled all the way from wherever the Enterprise-D went to in "Where No One Has Gone Before". The DMA is a stray thought created by one of the crew, or one of the kids, and just took that long to arrive in the Milky Way.

 

[SG-17]

Maybe the Sphere-Builders?

Kelvans?

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

I would think the Sphere Builders would have an "Axe to Grind" with anybody who opposed their expansion.

Remember, the Sphere Builders can examine "Alternate Timelines" and monitor probabilities of "Various Futures".

Jonathan Archer and his crew caused the destruction of the Delphic Expanse & forced the Sphere Builders to "Retreat" to their realm.

The Sphere Builders are still out there, and the devastated 32nd century would be a "Prime Target" to expand given how weak the UFP & StarFleet is.

Remember, UFP signed the Temporal Accords, that means they've locked themselves out of Temporal Technology.

This gives the "Sphere Builders" a huge advantage along with the fact that StarFleet is a small fraction of it's former self.

 

[fireproof78]

I, for one, welcome our new sphere building overlords.

Also, perhaps they can stop time travel.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

I, for one, welcome our new sphere building overlords.

Also, perhaps they can stop time travel.

Maybe there's an exception clause in the Temporal Accords for enemy parties who use Time Travel.

Then that'll bring back Time Travel =D

 

[cooleddie74]

I'm all for the Sphere Builders returning and using a completely different kind of planet-destroying weapon to attempt to dominate the galaxy. The Delphic Expanse may have been a one-shot deal and once it collapsed there was no way to rebuild such a phenomenon and with their Spheres having been destroyed. So later Sphere Builders may have found a new way to strike at the powers of our galaxy by developing a new weapon.