That's good idea. 
Should Discovery bring Kweijan back?
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Time Travel back in time and evacuate the people?
You can still let the DMA destroy the planet, but the people should be saved IMO.
Even if you need to do a "Massive" planetary evacuation.
You can still let the DMA destroy the planet, but the people should be saved IMO.
Even if you need to do a "Massive" planetary evacuation.
Could be why he's so eager to help out Scientist Guy get "home"
Hey, you know what? Now that you mention it, that just might be the answer. We'll see...
Only if Book or a series regular dies in his place. It's kind of like bringing Spock back in "Search for Spock." Well maybe not the same in terms of popularity of characters or anything like that but the logic back then was to bring Spock back Kirk had to pay a price and he paid it with both the destruction of the Enterprise but also the death of his son. Kweijan's return would need to come at a price of some kind that you can't just ignore down the line.
RIP Lieutenant Nilsson. Luckily, her identical descendant can take over her spot.
No, it would ruin the impact of it happening.
I am going to be a contrarian. I think we've seen enough impactful devastation for awhile. it would actually be nice to see Discovery and Book actually find a decent way to reverse whatever happened (This is the show that had warp travel nearly end because of an emotional child, it's not setting the logic bar too high, by comparison)
Since no one still knows exactly why 10cc did it, only that they're not in love, despite the devastation there's no way right now to say absolutely there isn't any way to restore the damage. It's also still peculiar that a planet with the one species that can work the D.A.S.H. drive without Stamet's Tardigrade DNA splice (especially with macro Tardigrades also being extinct).
Since no one still knows exactly why 10cc did it, only that they're not in love, despite the devastation there's no way right now to say absolutely there isn't any way to restore the damage. It's also still peculiar that a planet with the one species that can work the D.A.S.H. drive without Stamet's Tardigrade DNA splice (especially with macro Tardigrades also being extinct).
How do you bring a whole planet back anyway?
I mean, as a writer? How would a person even begin to write that? Satisfyingly, I mean... Without time travel or Q?
I mean, as a writer? How would a person even begin to write that? Satisfyingly, I mean... Without time travel or Q?
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You bring the planet back by creating a tech bomb that is basically a genesis device and launch it on a barren planet and soon that planet is remade into a exact copy of Books world. Because he has Kweijan's DNA he also is able to be reformed and then Book does a spiritual thing that brings him back to life.
I can't think of a way to bring the planet back in a satisfying way, or a way that doesn't strain a viewer's suspension of disbelief to breaking point, but there are ways. I'm going to see what I can come up with in five minutes:
- The planet was never destroyed, it was all a test and the wreckage left behind was fake.
- The planet was never destroyed, it was sucked through the wormhole and the wreckage left behind is forgotten by the writers.
- They bring a new planet across from an doomed alternate timeline and everyone feels it's close enough.
- They use Tal Shiar forensic gear that can determine the position of particles days ago in combination by a transporter technique invented by the scientist Jetrel in order to beam everyone back the way they were before they exploded.
- Everyone was just trapped in a white subspace void somehow. They get out and colonise a new planet.
- Zora remembers the whole planet and everyone on it and they replicate a new one from her memory with 31st century replicators that can make living beings.
- They piece it back together with some space tape.
Without the power of a God basically. Even a Genesis device doesn’t reform an exploded planet.
For me it’s putting the cart before the horse. We are supposed to care about Book. Not Kwejian.
What does God need with a dark matter anomaly?
Booker is going to go live with the DMA Aliens and teach them that destroying random planets is bad.
If we're being honest, I think the same thing every time for the last fifteen years one of these Trek writers goes the lazy route of destroying an entire planet for shock value and quick pathos. How do you even begin to write that and not realize you're out of ideas?
As a result, my tolerance for "and then it came back" is higher than it should be just so I can forget the entire stupid episode happened and move on from it.
In a show where people now have instantaneous personal transporters and galactic travel through an omnipresent spore network (navigable by this particular species, no less), saving the inhabitants is pretty easy to do without inventing a single new thing.
I hope so, because Book's a character we've seen and have gotten to know, while Kwejian is a planet that consists entirely of a badly-color-graded forest, a bad guy who mumbles, and a kid we don't know. There doesn't seem to be a civilization there as far as we've seen, and we never got to know the one adult who lives there outside of him trying to get Book killed. I'm convinced it all means something to Book, but nothing has been developed there for the audience to attach to.
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@Deledrius
Well put regarding Kwejian. As an audience member I have zero investment in the planet. I couldn’t care less if it comes back.
The whole thing however has made Book, a character I liked anyway, more sympathetic.
I honestly doubt Kwejian will make a return.
Well put regarding Kwejian. As an audience member I have zero investment in the planet. I couldn’t care less if it comes back.
The whole thing however has made Book, a character I liked anyway, more sympathetic.
I honestly doubt Kwejian will make a return.
With the transporter, just like everything else
