It kind of presages what happened in the finale with the Calypso tie-in.
Gotta do something nonsensical, so best to do it as quickly as possible and hope the audience forgets.
the rest of Seasons 4 and 5, Micheal Burnham never bothered asking about Tyler?
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It kind of presages what happened in the finale with the Calypso tie-in.
Gotta do something nonsensical, so best to do it as quickly as possible and hope the audience forgets.
Maybe to you, but neither of us have gone through the shit Discovery's crew has gone through. These are relationships forged through fire, and blood. The phrase "the blood of the battlefield is thicker than the water of the womb" is very apropos here for this crew. People are like, "They're leaving everything they know!" Well, the reality is, what they know, the people they feel the closest to right now are on that ship.
Gabrielle Burnham is still helping J'Vini. I was under the impression that would take a while.
There's no natural place for Burnham to mention her mother in the season, other than maybe small-talk. But lack of such small-talk isn't something to make a big deal over.
On the subject of Voq/Tyler, there might not BE any records to find. We know that Section 31 seems to be operating openly in the 23rd century. ALL INFO about them is gone by the 24th. Considering Tyler probably has a Klingon lifespan (like Arne Darvin) he may well have been still with Section 31 as of the Dominion War and all info about him had long since been erased by then, meaning there would be nothing for Burnham to find by the 32nd century.
I've asked this before elsewhere but I wonder how the crew would cope with learning Captain Pike's fate? And I am not totaly sure if his eventual Talos IV fate would have been classified or declassified, though maybe large swathes of history are probably declassfied when they are deemed far enough in the past, as in real life. But Pike's fate was especially cruel, and directly tied in to their travel to the future via the time crystal.
The Lower Decks SNW episode made it seem like everyone knew about it by the 24th century while also steamrolling any possibility of Pike being cured immediately after the Menagerie offscreen like I and maybe a few others theorized before said episode.
And Tyler has been dead for centuries, so that's another reason why she wouldn't bring him up.
To be finnicky though, they knew he was in the beep-beep chair and why, but that doesn't necessarily mean they knew the next part or where he ended up - it Talos was still classified then the court martial would have been as well.
I always figured Pike and Vina lived the rest of their lives peacefully on Talos IV. Perhaps even a dialogue was officially made between the Talosians and the Federation, which allowed Pike to keep in touch with those outside, perhaps get visitors like Spock. Maybe he’s made ambassador to Talos IV? There’s plenty of possibilities of what happened with Pike post-The Menagerie. I’ll be surprised if SNW doesn’t touch on any of that when it comes to an end.
I was just about to write something similar - my view was that basically after the trauma of leaving everything and everyone behind it may have been in early S3 simply too hard for her to bring herself to look it up and see Tyler go on to live a life she could have had with him for example
Potentially Kovich informs them that everything about the Disco was redacted and those left behind sworn to secrecy at pain of death - knowing they did it for her and that they couldn’t live a truly free life for fear of letting something slip could again make her not want to know through guilt.
After that initial phase where it was immediately relevant to both fans and in universe it would likely have been jarring to have an episode where it shows her doing so - although now I say it I would actually have enjoyed a clip show style episode of her reading logs for each and seeing the actors (likely in ageing make up to add impact so we see things across their full lives) brought back for a one off. So many being on SNW would have facilitated it I think.
Maybe it could have worked with the episode where Zora helps the crew to finally face the fate they have chosen and where Culber starts moving into that counsellor style role - it could have been punctuated with flash backs as they share stories of their lost loved ones
Forgive me if my memory is wrong but is the Pike Medal of Valour not explicitly for he actions saving those cadets hence why everyone knows?
Part of the deal to get the crystal I believe was also fully embracing the fate and part of that may have been knowing that he will never be healed from it? Maybe even having to reject it to not undo what is meant to be?
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