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Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 4x06 - "Stormy Weather"
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I hope! Just take the TOS Remastered look and kick it up a notch.
It’s interesting to me. The Galactic Barrier was one of the few TOS items that repeated/maintained some sense of continuity across episodes and seasons. And then, the entire concept was dropped completely from all subsequent series.
Yeah, it is odd. TNG, DS9 and VOY never once mentioned it nor even ENT, though that might be forgiven since humans had yet to reach that far towards the Galactic Barrier(save for the crew of the S.S. Valiant sometime after 2065) so may never have seen it.
In this last episode of DSC, it’s mentioned pretty casually, but the crew of the Discovery would not have known of it, since they come from an era before Kirk discovered the barrier (and lived to tell about it, unlike the SS Valiant crew), which would seem to indicate that it was part of their “welcome to the 31st Century “ training.
Yep. "Did you know our galaxy is surrounded at the edge by a dense barrier of negative energy that was first accidentally encountered by the crew of one of Earth's first warp-capable exploratory vessels?"
Stamets: "Wait, what?"
[*Awkward silence*]
Stamets: "When was anyone going to tell me this?"
Stamets: "Wait, what?"
[*Awkward silence*]
Stamets: "When was anyone going to tell me this?"
Not to mention the other Great Barrier surrounding the center of the galaxy. 
The great barrier affects Psionic creatures the most as is well known
Book is an empath and is either going to have a massive headache like most telepaths did in Q Continuum novels or have godlike policies and possibly confront those behind the DMV possibly leading to narritive conflict with Michael.(the father image's manifestation being a precursor)
Trill Symbionts might be telepathic so the barrier is going to have some interesting effects on Adira. If Stametz's connection to the Mycelial realm is telephone this could effect the ability of Discovery to use the spore drive. If Sarek's katra is still in Michael then the barrier might have interesting effects on Sarek. (Though this isnt likely to be mentioned.) We don't know if the squid crewman is telepathic or not. But in line with the previous episodes with the traumatic backstory reveals the next episode might reveal a crewman to be telepathic and generate tension among the crew with the Psionic effects of the barrier.
The encounter with the barrier will break the novel Q Continuum if 0 isn't there. If that is the case it will prove that the Continuum didn't build the barrier. Future novelists of discovery might claim that 0 was killed or died however. Also if the Galactic barrier was repaired by Continuum are artificial wormholes used by Lem Faal in Q Continuum still going to work? Though the Mycelial network likely bypasses the barrier thus the claim that the barrier is repaired in beta Cannon is likely not effected. It is worth pointing out that both the Kelvins and Sphere builders breached the barrier without freeing 0.
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Book might be turning into another Gary Mitchell the closer Discovery gets to the Galactic Barrier. He'd most likely recover and be saved from Gary's fate but still, that wouldn't be a pleasant process for him to go through.
We don't talk about that one. The devil lives there.
Why did Book have so much faith in the courier's information that his subconscious trusted it more then the UFP records? It might not have been rational and was probably just a voice of his subconscious. While both Aurelio and Parka are former emerald chain (which had powerful scientific establishments) and Couriers might have a tiny bit of information on the anomalys whereabouts how do we know the UFP isn't already in contact with courier sources? Does Books subconscious claim that the UFP is ignoring Couriers actually prove that the UFP isnt putting much stock in Courier information?
Wow. My butt is a lot flatter than I thought.
It seems everybody went from fat butts to fat heads when the line was drawn.
See what making a fuss can do...
You mean like restore his home planet and then lose the god-powers?
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