Why DSC should have been TNg-Era...

[AlexMcpherson79]

Okay... So Hear me out.

Michael Burnham, was the Adopted Daughter of Sarek taken in Basically almost immedaitely Pre-TNG... Spock never knew about her and the bulk of the show is post-nemesis. The "Fuck they aren't-" Klingons are actually an off-shoot race of Klingons, that splintered (Romulan from Vulcan style) from the Klingon Empire back around the time of the Hurq invasion of Qo'NoS. These Klingons are called, *cough* Ahem. *cough* Klingots. The Federation has known about them for roughly almost as long as there has been some kind of dialogue between the UFP and Klingon Empire... but PRE-TOS had never been seen, only encountered a few times "Mid" TOS onward, and through to Burnhams Childhood was considered a myth by most, because they're far more warlike than their Klingon Cousins. Klingons are like Football hooligans - always up for a scrap, but are also "good" drinking buddies, with one only sometimes becoming the other. But Klingots are the Bad kind of Immortals from the Highlander, aka soon as they see you, they want to not just fight you, but kill you. Even if you're a "newborn Immie". or here, a new-to-space species that hasn't even developed proper shields and phasers yet.

And yes, This is a subtle nod to the joke in "Broken Bow" where one of the pre-UFP Starfleet brass said 'It's a Klingot!' And got corrected...

So Anyway, The Vulcan's diplomatic ties with KLINGONS was as you'd expect for Vulcans, and of what we saw from Enterprise. However, with the KLINGOTS they were advised, by the klingons to open fire first, or their ships would end up basically destroyed. 'Prove you have bigger teeth before they even growl at you' kind of thing. Prove it, and they'll... leave you alone. For a while.

So. Lets go with... Just post-DS9. but not yet Nemesis. Boom, the Federation have their first encounter with Klingots that wasnt' a vulcan ship, and no one onboard can believe that the vulcans would ever fire first - klingons advising it or not...

Uh... Michael is still an "Adopted daughter of Sarek", but Spock knows nothing of her (he'd been busy and Sarek never sent a message of 'oh Bee-tee-dubs, just adopted a human girl. Her selfie attached').

The Section 31 stuff can now delve into just how massive they actually are, even have an Older Sloane, who tells that "Bashir getting the cure for the founders was actually part of our plan, we just wanted him to feel like he was getting one over us."
And even try to tie into the "supernova = Romulan Star Empire has fallen" thing.

The Spore Drive? More like some other-than-warp drive they're trying to recreate that Voyager encountered. The USS Discovery's registry is like, 31031. Originally one of several of classified ships operated by Section 31. The Discovery, being a former Section 31 ship has some... unusual things about it. like spinning sections (which Burnham thinks is stupid... and stupidly heavy maintenance).

The "WAR!" is of course, against the Klingots, and was minor-enough going into Nemesis to not get the mention... but After X years heated up properly... so season 1 can still be a "hang on, even with our really fast warp drives we're still getting pounded and Voyagers' future!weapons are oddly ineffective now!", yadda yadda.

Voq is a Klingot Infiltrator, and the conversion was performed as simply as those Bashir did to Sisko for the Season 5 premiere episode (going undercover for a ceremoney and revealed Martok as a changeling)
Season 2 isn't with Pike, but with the new captain of the Enterprise-E. Picard has 'recently' been promoted to Admiral, and there's some things about several stars in the Romulan Star Empire giving off readings that say they'll soon go Nova, except not consistently, but like the stars can't make their minds up "I'mma goonna b... nah not this year... wait... yyy... no.,... yy... maybe not."

A few lines about the Romulan Fleet recently taken ANOTHER beating in a war, this time against the Klingots (those boys were very busy before Voq and their new female leader used Section 31's "christmas present" to enforce peace with the UFP), and subsequently also with the Romulans) and so they're in no position to help their own people.... but buried beneath that is "hang on, Section 31 are trying to trigger supernovas without resorting to Trilithium warheads (Generations)" but eventually, cue time-travel-involved episode were first Hobus goes nova, then the "heroes" undo it with a "one-shot time-trip"... but oops, stopping the Hobus nova triggered Section 31's backup plan of Romulus' sun going nova. (Thereby tying in at least the JarJarTrek bit, with Picard's alternate view were it was Romulus' sun, rather than a "nearby star in another system".

AND it then explains why STD designs are used in STuPid.

[IanKennedy]

Alternatively you can just fix it by changing 2 words. "Star Trek: Discovery" => "Far Drek: Discovery"

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Alternatively you can just fix it by changing 2 words. "Star Trek: Discovery" => "Far Drek: Discovery"

Hahaha.

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And even try to tie into the "supernova = Romulan Star Empire has fallen"

Moving into season 2, agree with a lot that you’ve pointed out! I quoted this one part, not because it’s a problem but because a lot of fans (myself included) had issues with this plot device from the movie. Supernova do not wipe out galaxies and universes. They’re large stars that when they run out of conventional fuel and start burning the heavy bad stuff, go “KA Blooie!”. Idk if the writers had confirmed with astrophysics at that time but your average super/hypernova is capable of wiping out all biological life in a radius of 40-100 light years (depending on factors). In 2015, there was an explosion at a distance of nearly 4 billion light years. It radiated more luminous energy in one month than all the stars in the milkyway galaxy combined. It was labeled a Super luminous + Supernova, it’s estimated to have a kill radius of 500-1000 light years. So could a single Star wipe out the universe? Probably not but one like
ASASSN-15lh Could’ve destroyed a massive amount of romulan fictional territory.... fun space facts.