• Welcome! The TrekBBS is the number one place to chat about Star Trek with like-minded fans.
    If you are not already a member then please register an account and join in the discussion!

Spoilers What’s in the nebula?

SARU: Admiral, we're receiving a distress call from inside the nebula. It's the USS Juan Valdez. Do you know her?
VANCE: Captain Janeway was right. Go figure.
SARU: We're also detecting a large number of escape pods.
VANCE: Discovery, repeat. Did you say K-pods?
 
I do not understand laughing at other's failures. Or paying money to watch someone fail.

Its quite easy to understand.
We live in a socio-economic system that's based around competition and acquisition of material wealth - neither of which are necessary for a functioning society (least of all extremely fast technical and scientific advancement), and as a result this creates a severe warping of values... producing a systems value disorder if you will where people develop a fetish for seeing others fail.
Its basically nothing more than learned behavior. Competition isn't ingrained in us... neither is greed, etc... we simply pick these patterns of behavior from the environment we live in (which from a social point of view is excessively primitive).

I was genuinely disappointed with lack of any serious advancement in Trek from proceeding centuries after what we already saw in late 24th to the point where I basically felt sorry for how low the bar has dropped on Trek (almost to the point where its a short hair away from being Star Wars).

Its genuinely not something to applaud or even EXPECT.
Its something one should be concerned about (mind you, this is hardly 'earth shattering' as real life is eminently more important and arguably more interesting too - I'm just saying that from the context of Trek and what is was supposed to represent... I'm just disappointed the writers hadn't pushed the bar nearly enough).
 
Last edited:
The thing about the mystery in the nebula is how it will, without fail, impact Michael Burnham above all others. It will have to be a pretty substantial ghost from her past.
 
Last edited:
I’m betting that it’ll be one of the following:

1. Prime Georgiou (I know she is supposed to be dead)
2. Prime Lorca and the Buran
3. Prime Lorca on another ship
4. Calypso Discovery
5. Another version of Book
6. Ash Tyler

If it’s something that is directly connected to Burnham then it could be any of them. If it’s “something from her past” I’m not sure Calypso works.
 
Or Leland.
But not the nanite infested version but mirror Leland haha

It'll be a ship with Leland and Dr. Attis. Leland tells Dr. Attis he will manage his band, but he must dump his bandmate friends to do so.

This is an obscure reference to a Degrassi: TNG episode with the same actors. Raise your hand if you got it...
 
The thing about the mystery in the nebula is how it will, without fail, impact Michael Burnham above all others. It will have to be a pretty substantial ghost from her past.

Sadly, I believe you are correct. This whole show is just about her. It might as well be called Star Trek: Michael Burnham. Whatever the mystery of the Burn is, you can be sure it has something to do with her personally.
 
Sadly, I believe you are correct. This whole show is just about her. It might as well be called Star Trek: Michael Burnham. Whatever the mystery of the Burn is, you can be sure it has something to do with her personally.

It'll probably end up being Michael's father in there.
After all, we never learned conclusively that her father was killed by the Klingons... she thought they killed her mother too (and look at how that turned out).
 
Sadly, I believe you are correct. This whole show is just about her. It might as well be called Star Trek: Michael Burnham. Whatever the mystery of the Burn is, you can be sure it has something to do with her personally.
This. They sure ain’t doing any Discovering, it’s all about how big a chunk of the universe Burnham will save every week.
 
If you are not already a member then please register an account and join in the discussion!

Sign up / Register


Back
Top