What was "The Burn" and what caused it?

[Airmandan]

Like I said in the other thread, I hope the Burn somehow gets tied to a newly combined Romulan and Vulcan culture. I feel that would be the most interesting storyline wise.

As for the Burn itself, I figure that with a vast majority of the fleet getting turned to space dust, and probably planetary power stations that run on dilithium causing wide spread destruction on planets would cause a lot of people to shy away from interstellar travel. Add to that, your best and brightest are probably going to be near said Dilithium sources that went boom and you may have something of a brain drain. If we thought Mars was on fire before because of a synth attack, what would it look like if the all warp cores for all the ships being assembled on the surface or in orbit were to go explosive at the same time?

 

[cooleddie74]

You underestimate me.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I am sorry if someone already mentioned this, but the Romulans use an artificial singularity to power its warp drive, not dilithium-based anti matter reaction. So they shouldn’t be affected by “The Burn”? Also, I would imagine after more than a thousand years, someone should have found an alternative agent to regulate anti matter reactions than dilithium? We certainly are not using horse-drawn carriage now than 1000 years ago? Even through the concept of external propulsion on a wheeled vehicle is the same.

Did they ever say Romulan warp drives DON'T require dilithium in some way? Maybe the singularity replaces the antimatter in the (magical) warp drive process and not the crystals.

Remus was a dilithium mine, after all.

 

[XCV330]

Same can be said of most nation states. Even England has several subcultures, some based on geography.

it's dubious, but the tiny nation of San Marino insists they became independantly running of the Roman Empire in 301 and have continued on as a city state ever since. True to form, they also are the only country to still maintain a crossbowmen force.

 

[NCC-73515]

You don’t have to drop out to make course corrections

Recalculating route

Very odd corrections and very pointless route then XD

 

[Muji]

That tends to happen when you have giant plot holes in a thing.

Does it? That’s cool. I’d be interested to read a thread posted after episode one of TNG about the Q plot hole, if you’ve got a link?

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

England was never dissolved, it united with Scotland in 1701, last time I checked I live in England

It snow that it's dissolving by the looks of things

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

What I don't understand is

Spoiler: Spoiler

How can sectors be closed off from each other the way that Fed guy said. If he is in the middle and can scan 30 lightyears then a ship on the edge like his map shows could also scan 30ly so you can see for 45ly at least and what stops ships from pushing on past 30ly. What if this sector is in some sort of crazy anomaly and the rest of the galaxy is fine

 

[NCC-73515]

He did say that long-range sensors failed, maybe that's connected to the burn

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

He did say that long-range sensors failed, maybe that's connected to the burn

Ya but on a mobile object like a ship which he has access to short range sensors can go as far as you want

 

[SJGardner]

Ya but on a mobile object like a ship which he has access to short range sensors can go as far as you want

It might all depend on how the systems are interconnected. Who knows, maybe data protocols have changed so much since the Burn that his computer systems can no longer produce the proper authentication to establish a valid network connection with the passing Federation ships, or on the other side, the computers of those ships do not recognize the transponder signal of his relay station as valid and block its handshake requests. He's so isolated and insignificant that the restoration of any communication channels is simply not a priority for those ships.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

It might all depend on how the systems are interconnected. Who knows, maybe data protocols have changed so much since the Burn that his computer systems can no longer produce the proper authentication to establish a valid network connection with the passing Federation ships, or on the other side, the computers of those ships do not recognize the transponder signal of his relay station as valid and block its handshake requests. He's so isolated and insignificant that the restoration of any communication channels is simply not a priority for those ships.

Maybe but if establishing Comms with Starfleet in other systems isn't a priority for them they are pretty crap at their jobs.
I'm thinking it's more that subspace is wrecked to the point that this or all sectors have impassible borders.

Discoverys jump drive might be the key to getting round this

 

[garakvsneelix]

Did anyone here already see the obvious connection between The Burn and Michael Burnham? I mean, for some peculiar reason, the DSC producer decided that Michael Burnham is the most important person in the universe, so even this dopey link wouldn't surprise me anymore...

 

[KennyB]

I hope that the Dilithium explosion was completely natural and not an attack or a godlike being. Just the equivalent of global warming at work.

I hope there is a good explanation as well. I am willing to wait for it..........however my main questions are if it all went BOOM why is it still sought after? Isn't there a risk of it going BOOM again? Seems like there had to be an outside influence. A stable, neutral, homonuclear diatomic molecule doesn't just become volatile.........like ever.

 

[KennyB]

Did anyone here already see the obvious connection between The Burn and Michael Burnham? I mean, for some peculiar reason, the DSC producer decided that Michael Burnham is the most important person in the universe, so even this dopey link wouldn't surprise me anymore...

I've seen it mentioned EVERYWHERE and I may eat my words, but that is the dumbest shit I have read lately.

 

[garakvsneelix]

I've seen it mentioned EVERYWHERE and I may eat my words, but that is the dumbest shit I have read lately.

Indeed, it would be really dumb. But this is, sadly, no argument for me, that it can't be the case...

 

[Fateor]

So... Real question... Why was there no mention of Transwarp?

 

[fireproof78]

Not relevant to the story yet.

 

[Nerys Myk]

So... Real question... Why was there no mention of Transwarp?

Do we really need a checklist? Because that would totally sound like naturalistic dialog.

 

[Yistaan]

So... Real question... Why was there no mention of Transwarp?

And which race uses transwarp the most? They can't give away plot twists too early...