I feel like we're intentionally being thrown off the trail to make room for bigger surprises later on. Basic questions remain:
Why would the DSC crew be going back in time just a matter of days/weeks/months to interact with themselves in a way that accomplishes NOTHING to stop Control?
Again, Burnham is in her regular uniform when she sits down in the big chair in the preview - not the RA suit. So it's not a given that that's her highly anticipated moment that everyone's predicting. But surely there's a more effective way to tackle a deadly A.I. than making brief appearances around the galaxy, not going to any effort at all to point to the actual threat IF that's Control.
Both assumptions about DSC and Control might be incorrect. I know that this idea will be challenged, and I just ask that the question be tackled first: Why would the DSC crew be going back in time just a matter of days/weeks/months to interact with themselves in a way that accomplishes NOTHING to stop Control?
I'm not understanding the bolded. When does the crew go back in time?
If you're talking about the theory of Michael being the RA, it's easily explained. The suit the RA is wearing is from the future, advanced tech that was developed perhaps 500 or 1000 years in the future. If Michael is being 'beamed' into the future via project Daedalus, she can find and wear the suit then. As to why she jumps back to the specific times we've already seen? Because she already knows it has happened that way. It's that simple.
If she is told or comes to the realization that she has to be the RA, then she will have to make all of those jumps to ensure the timeline happens the way they remember it and is not interfered with by CONTROL. Assuming that Control is actively trying to influence the past (sending back that modified probe, taking over Airiam etc). For example, perhaps that beast was somehow sent after young Burnham.
I get that some people would prefer a more in depth specific reason for each particular jump or interference by the RA, but a closed temporal causality loop tends to hand-wave that. Why choose Spock? Because he's her brother, and she already knows he was visited as a child and helped to get her rescued before she was killed.
Now, the big question you have is still not solved, however, which is HOW does any of this stop CONTROL and its plan? That part is still yet to be seen or deciphered. There are missing pieces, still.
But that is why I think the idea of Discovery being hidden and abandoned deliberately for a millennia may factor into this somehow. (if the Calypso Short Trek has any bearing at all on the plot, which it might not) There are rumors of an evacuation of Discovery in one of the later eps. That's why I'm still keeping this as a possibility. It would also give the Enterprise and Number One a reason to show up, to take the crew on board.
