Well, I didn't write the episodes... But it makes sense in terms of it could use signals to hack stuff there, and replace people via their tech interfaces. It would have to go physically looking with ships and probes, which doesn't seem to be its main objective or MO.It is obvious that Control has no sensors and definitely would never look at worlds where life might exist but not yet be technologically active.
Technology might imply complex versus simple. No transtators or subspace fields and the like.500 years later and Terralysium still has no technology?
Actually, it DOES have some: The power cell that lights up the church. Why couldn't Control detect that?
Can't it be both?
I remember when it was announced that they had extended the season by one episode, I knew that it meant one got stretched into two. Now we know which one it was.
I like how last week they managed to make him more than just the heroic leader. It would have been very easy to just have him take the crystal and seal his fate. But instead, they gave him that moment where he has to steel himself and reaffirm the values he swore to uphold. This gets both his heroism and his humanity across. I feel that Pike is the best-written character this season, and he is the one with the simplest story around him. Sometimes you don't need to make your lead be the previously unknown sibling of an established character, or have them be the doppelganger of a dead captain, you just need to make them a good, likable person and that's enough.
It seems to me that with the large size of Discovery and the obvious amount of energy it must take for its impulse engines, there's probably more than enough energy left over when in idle to power the EMERGENCY ESCAPE Platforms, since they are only used while standing still, in an Emergency.
It is obvious that Control has no sensors and definitely would never look at worlds where life might exist but not yet be technologically active.
Someone's been tinkering with our timeline.
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