The storyline played out like it was written by old people unfamiliar with computers or viruses, starting way back when Amanda "stole" Spock's medical record, like it was an old-fashioned paper file.
Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 2x14 - "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2"
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The storyline played out like it was written by old people unfamiliar with computers or viruses, starting way back when Amanda "stole" Spock's medical record, like it was an old-fashioned paper file.
The problem with Voyager wasn't concept it was execution.
I thought the final signal was simply to make it clear they had survived and not that Discovery itself was 51,000 ly away?
Maybe Federation types have colonized 50,000 light years out, five or six hundred years after Voyager.
Expecially if you've got Captain Christopher "Sacrifice is the greatest act of all" Pike making that decision.
Depends on the future they've ended up with.
Eh, a little of both.
Wasn't that the holographic thing that they've gotten rid off. Not sure I want much covered on that!
There are really a lot of ways the next season could go. It could be like Voyager, it could be like Farscape, it could be like Ian Bank's Culture or a dozen other ways . No telling until we get there.
Well, if she 'moved' the file instead of 'copying' it, what is the result on our computers?
As hard as this might be to comprehend, that's probably Roald's honest opinion!
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So how does all this tie into "Calypso"?
That ep takes place a thousand years after DSC, with the ship abandoned and drifting for a thousand years. But now they're not quite that many years in the future (950, I think it was), and the ship still has its crew. So what happens now?
They'd have to send the ship back to 2257 and have it drift a millennium for the crew to pick it up. And I don't see why they'd do that, since the whole point was to get the ship to the future where Control couldn't get at it (unless, in the future, they find some way of emptying the sphere data).
Perhaps the trailer for "Calypso" is inaccurate, and it actually takes place a thousand years after the future the ship is now in?
That ep takes place a thousand years after DSC, with the ship abandoned and drifting for a thousand years. But now they're not quite that many years in the future (950, I think it was), and the ship still has its crew. So what happens now?
They'd have to send the ship back to 2257 and have it drift a millennium for the crew to pick it up. And I don't see why they'd do that, since the whole point was to get the ship to the future where Control couldn't get at it (unless, in the future, they find some way of emptying the sphere data).
Perhaps the trailer for "Calypso" is inaccurate, and it actually takes place a thousand years after the future the ship is now in?
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So how does all this tie into "Calypso"?
That ep takes place a thousand years after DSC, with the ship abandoned and drifting for a thousand years. But now they're not quite that many years in the future, and the ship still has its crew. So what happens now?
I'm imagining that there is going to be a bit of a gap of time beyond the obvious time jump at the end of the season when we pick up with the Disco crew. Perhaps for reasons that will become clear, the crew will need to abandon ship as the season starts. It might be cool if they go to Terralysium and have to be there for the first few episodes as they flashback to the events that happened after the time jump. It could explain the rationale for the events of "Calypso" if they were planetbound for a few months because of reasons hereto untold. Perhaps something with the V'draysh?
Discovery could have a few more years on her before she gets dumped for centuries.So how does all this tie into "Calypso"?
That ep takes place a thousand years after DSC, with the ship abandoned and drifting for a thousand years. But now they're not quite that many years in the future, and the ship still has its crew. So what happens now?
Having not seen "Calypso" in a while, I don't remember whether the AI makes it plain that it's a thousand years in DSC's future, or simply that she has been waiting a thousand years for the crew to return. If it's the latter, that Short Trek might take place a thousand years after the jump to the future, ie, 1950 years after DSC.So how does all this tie into "Calypso"?
That ep takes place a thousand years after DSC, with the ship abandoned and drifting for a thousand years. But now they're not quite that many years in the future, and the ship still has its crew. So what happens now?
Of course. But aren't all of the Short Treks supposed to tie into this arc?
(Well, actually, Harry Mudd's didn't, so I guess Calypso doesn't have to...)
I have a strong, visceral dislike of any version of the "one ship stranded away from everyone they've ever known" story.
But, I always said the biggest problem with Voyager was terrible casting (there's only so much you can do to course correct when half the cast can't act), and I often think Discovery's greatest strength is perfect casting, so that's one thing helping me maintain my qualified optimism.
I think it was initially stated Calypso was more or less standalone. I thought it would tie-in anyway, but it seems clear they intend to leave it alone, for now. Maybe it will always be that way. I kind of like the idea.
We can pretend it was setting up "this person who looks human may actually be a robot" as a plot element.
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