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Po, Spock, and dilithium recrystallization

TrickyDickie

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Spock, in The Voyage Home, speaks of dilithium recrystallization as being theoretical.

Based on what Po does in Discovery, are we to take it that he was simply referring to the method that they were forced to employ....the high-energy photons from the nuclear reactor?

Otherwise, Discovery would contradict The Voyage Home, because Spock would have known that dilithium recrystallization was not just theoretical.
 
You know what's coming...
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Discovery will be wiped from history, never having existed. Tilly would never have met Po, and Federation will never learn that Xaheans developed that technology.
 
How would the terminology work in the real world? Scientist A claims to have made a breakthrough, but doesn't show how to do it. There may or may not be a demonstration. Without proof the everything is happening as the inventor claims, is the process still theoretical?
 
You're still worried about contradictions at this point?! :guffaw:

Sort of....just following it as best I can and trying to figure out where they're going with all of this. :D

The idea that Discovery will just be wiped out of the timeline as if it never existed just doesn't seem likely, although not impossible, of course.
 
Spock talked about cloaking devices being theoretical in "Balance of Terror"

Discovery's pick and choosing what they're keeping and what they're ignoring.

Po built some kind of high energy conduit directly from the reactor to the cradle, interfacing the Spore drives energy matrix too. Nobody knew what she was doing exactly. I doubt someone immediately ran to a warp core and tried plugging a crystal in the moment they heard about it.

If anyone on Discovery even bothered telling anyone, not wanting to expose Xahea and their race to everyone.
 
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