Yeah, weather they call the technology "warp drive" or something else, they all seem to be functionally equivalent. Using dilithium to moderate a matter/antimatter reaction to provide power to drive the ship.I guess what I should have said is that the federation and its allies have never been able to develop an alternative power source for their transportation system than a dilithium enabled M/AM reaction. The point is the same.
We have no idea if the 32nd Century non-warp FTL systems are powered through a matter/anti-matter reaction like the warp coils are. All we know is that dilithium is used in their systems, too.
I guess the Romulans abandoned using singularities to power their ships and/or everyone else dropped or forgot that technology.
It was already long-established that Romulans still used dilithium in their singularity drives, or else they wouldn't have turned all of Remus into a giant dilithium mine.
This is why I always thought the whole "dilithium being the cause of The Burn" was an utterly stupid idea. Trek had a ready made cause, Omega particles, that was already established and would immediately stop most FTL technologies shown
Ah, yes, the Omega Particle, famously used in... *checks notes* a single episode of VOY a quarter-century ago and never seen since then. Oh, and it doesn't lend itself to the sci-fi allegory of a scarce resource needed for modern energy production.
Yeah, no, it was a better idea to use dilithium. The audience actually remembers what dilithium is, and it lends itself well to a sci-fi allegory about the use of scare fossil fuels.
(or could be retconned to do so: they all use subspace), but that would also enable a unique technology like the sporedrive to work fine (it uses the spore network, not subspace) and circumvent the problem enabling Discovery to be the hero ship they needed. Instead, they went with an awkward "dilithium stopped working on a galactic scale because some kid was 'tied' into it, somehow; and somehow all dilithium, at least in this galaxy, is somehow tied together". Not only was it boneheaded in its inception, but required that the galaxy ignore all other already developed power sources and all other potential propulsion/transport technologies (soloton wave, graviton catapult, long range transporter, spacial trajector, iconian gateway). Arg.
Amazing how you spend all this time whittering on yet completely ignore the dramatic heart of the story -- which was, of course, the idea of grief so profound it makes the world burn.
2) That daft woman who turned up on the bridge, i just kept saying "What's going on?" I still don't know what's going on.
If you are referring to Pelia -- what is so daft about her?
2) The nurse and doctor scenes were just absurd. I mean.. what the actual fuck? It's Discovery-land. A small blonde nurse can beat up Klingons, of course of course she's amazzzing. Explain some sort of drug never before seen again to make the absurdity somehow logical. Can short circuit space ship circuirty with two wires like she's in the Dukes of Hazzard. Then throw themselves through the depths of space. All in a day's work!
Funny how no one complained when Kira was beating up Klingons and Jem'Hadar three times her size on DS9.
3) Spock crying over Chapel heart pumping feels very soap.
Jesus fucking Christ dude. When you lose or think you're about to lose someone you love, it is extremely normal to cry. This is not "soap." That's just emotional reality. Christ.
4) Contrived scenes. I thought it was absurd that Spock would admit a hangover to the admiral.
On the contrary -- Spock is usually extremely honest. It's completely consistent with his character that he would admit to suffering a hangover to a superior officer.
