Spoilers The 930-year jump from a different angle

[Lord Garth]

Let's say Discovery entered into a futuristic version of the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages began after the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 AD. What if The Burn is like the fall of the Roman Empire? If the Burn happened 120 years earlier, let's say 3188 is like 596 AD.

931 years before 596 AD would be 336 BC. That's the period of Macedonia, or Classical Greece. So maybe Discovery is like an Ancient Greek ship that ends up in the Dark Ages.

I think Macedonia was more advanced in some ways, if not a lot of ways, than Europe in the Dark Ages. So I think maybe that's the analogy they're going for with Discovery in sending it from 2257 to 3188.

 

[Agony_Boothb]

Let's say Discovery entered into a futuristic version of the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages began after the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 AD. What if The Burn is like the fall of the Roman Empire? If the Burn happened 120 years earlier, let's say 3188 is like 596 AD.

931 years before 596 AD would be 336 BC. That's the period of Macedonia, or Classical Greece. So maybe Discovery is like an Ancient Greek ship that ends up in the Dark Ages.

I think Macedonia was more advanced in some ways, if not a lot of ways, than Europe in the Dark Ages. So I think maybe that's the analogy they're going for with Discovery in sending it from 2257 to 3188.

Another analogy might be an ancient sailing ship finding its way to a post apocalyptic 21st century that still has some advanced technology but is resource poor and has no ability to build the technology they are using because everyone who knew how to build an ipad is dead.

I think it would be a really interesting take if they used the 32nd century to explore what would happen if modern civilisation collapsed.

 

[saddestmoon]

That’s a good way of looking at.

I also wonder about the repository of knowledge that the USS Discovery is carrying also (which Control was seeking to me obtain pre time jump) which may possibly contain some solution to the circumstances surrounding ‘The Burn’ of the 31st Century?

Alternatively, the Discovery, carrying this ancient database of the universe’s lore, knowledge, science, culture right up until 2257 - may end up being the very thing which restores the Federation in 3188 - or if not the Federation as such, then some iteration of it.

The USS Discovery as an analogy for The Great Library of Alexandria perhaps (estimated to be established around 285 - 243 BC)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria

So a repository of lost knowledge. Where the analogy ends or alters, is that rather than being ‘lost’ / destroyed in the manner of the Great Library - the Discovery is ‘lost’ to 2257 and instead ‘found’ / time-jumped into the 3188.