It didn't win them the war because they Disco missed the war... Of course the Klingons would be interested in such supertech, everyone would.
Spoilers So now Discovery is 'synched-up' with canon
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Yeah, everyone wants supertech that is so unreliable that it disappears when they need it the most.
They know what actually happened! Their Chancellor and her boy toy were with them!
Which is why they probably think it would be smarter to put the immense resources that would be put into developing supertech into more reliable counter-intelligence.
Yeah, the amount of resources to put in to such a project might be cost prohibitive for the Klingons who are "resource poor" as they have stated numerous times.
Because Alex Kurtzman doesn't want to keep running into established Star Trek canon. He wanted STD to be a prequel without looking like one. The closer it gets to TOS, the more painfully obvious it becomes the show has no interest in the original timeline's aesthetics and is much more in line with the look of JJ's universe
I don't see DSC synched with TOS after the season 2 final. I had no problem with the existence of a spore drive or a sister for Spock. The spore drive was not free from multiple side effects and Spock not even mentioned that Sarek and Amande are his parents when they stood in front of him and Kirk in "Journey to Babel". He also says nothing about his relation to Sybok in "The Final Frontier".
Far more problematic for me are the existence of repair robots, 100 auxiliary vessels per starship, photorealistic holograms almost everewhere, forcefield tunnels and spheres, klingon cloaking devices while Kirk already serves in Starfleet, unfolding EV suits and gigantic equipment, advanced signal technology which works across thousends of light-years and so on. There is enough technology which should not be exclusive to the Discovery and don't match the TOS era. At least from my point of view. In combination with the changed aesthetics DSC and its high-technology environment appears to be a full reboot and not just a "visual reboot". So the attempts to "synch" some of DSCs plot with prime universe TOS seems unnecessary because there are to much other discrepancies that will not corrected.
I think there is a kind of naiveté to Star Trek about manual work. At least in regard of the 22nd and 23rd century. Yes, of course repair robots, forcefields in all thinkable shapes and self-unfolding equipment are very convenient things. But in Star Trek there seems to be a kind philosophy that you take away something when you let technology do all the work which also can be done manually. That's something I cannot see in DSC due to advanced technology in use.
Far more problematic for me are the existence of repair robots, 100 auxiliary vessels per starship, photorealistic holograms almost everewhere, forcefield tunnels and spheres, klingon cloaking devices while Kirk already serves in Starfleet, unfolding EV suits and gigantic equipment, advanced signal technology which works across thousends of light-years and so on. There is enough technology which should not be exclusive to the Discovery and don't match the TOS era. At least from my point of view. In combination with the changed aesthetics DSC and its high-technology environment appears to be a full reboot and not just a "visual reboot". So the attempts to "synch" some of DSCs plot with prime universe TOS seems unnecessary because there are to much other discrepancies that will not corrected.
I think there is a kind of naiveté to Star Trek about manual work. At least in regard of the 22nd and 23rd century. Yes, of course repair robots, forcefields in all thinkable shapes and self-unfolding equipment are very convenient things. But in Star Trek there seems to be a kind philosophy that you take away something when you let technology do all the work which also can be done manually. That's something I cannot see in DSC due to advanced technology in use.
And besides, how many Klingons are there who actually know how exactly the Discovery was able to travel instantly to wherever it wanted? I doubt L'Rell has any workable knowledge about mycelial network-related subspace mechanics, spores and Tardigrades. Yeah, the Klingons and maybe the Romulans might attempt to figure it out for themselves, but without Stamets' actual research data, they're completely in the dark about where they should start. Even if they accidentally build a working copy, they won't find much use for it without Tardigrade DNA, and even the Glenn only accidentally stumbled upon one.
And most importantly, while advances in computing might eventually render a computer-based navigation reliable on the long term, I doubt the Klingons would deem a currently unusable project a success in advance, based on technology requirements that will surely be invented in the future. The High Council would look at their report and dryly tell them they wanted something to use now, not a century later. Beheadings and discommendations might occur.
I think it's completely plausible no one has been able to develop a spore drive actually reliable for interstellar distances in the 120+ years of history we've followed through Trek. As for Section 31... who knows, they might have found a utility for it... perhaps as a transporter that doesn't leave a signal behind?
Don't forget, the Federation are not the Ba'ku.
Yes, I think both work to better themselves but while the Ba'ku completly reject modern technology for Federation citizens it is more important that they have full control about it. To be able to handle a tool instead of just telling the tool what it should do for them.
Um. Didn't the Klingons control 90% of the Federation prior to Discovery doing its jump to the innards of Kronos?
20%. But I'm keeping out of the rest of this.
I thought it was more than that? When they came back from the Mirror universe the entire map was red except the Federation core worlds.
Nope. It was definitely 20.
Nearly a quarter using up their entire fleet to barely keep it, while what was left rushed to attack Earth. They were trying to act as fast as possible before a pushback. As we see in season 2, it cost them as much or more to achieve that much than anything Starfleet suffered.
The number they cited (by Cornwell, I believe) in The War Without, The War Within was "almost 20%", but the map itself only showed the Klingon border region where the main fronts were (the VFX team reused the Federation-Klingon border map from Star Charts for it). It wasn't verbally confirmed to be such a map, but it would make sense to only show the main war theater.
Yes, that was the situation at the end of the episode they got back but it was visually rebooted for the next episode.
regardless of how much the Klingons gained. Who told the Klingons Disco did did that? That's right. No one. And now that the whole tech is likely classified to the highest level, how are they ever going to find out?
