Discovery says Goodbye to Enterprise

Star Trek Discovery came to a conclusion on April 18th, 2019. The second season of the somewhat controversial Star Trek series left its viewers wondering not only about the future of Discovery but also its former temporary captain, Christopher Pike.



Goodbye to Too Many?

In the Star Trek universe, it is rare that viewers confronted many losses. Throughout its entire life, the Star Trek franchise showed little significant loss at the exception of a few memorable ones including , , the loss of Sarek was minor considering he was a minor character.

Most of the time the deaths in the previous series revolving around famous characters were temporary due to either time continuum fractures or unification of two beings like Tuvix from Star Trek Voyager.

[image error]Star Trek Discovery – CBS All Access

However, Discovery is not at all ignoring the rhythm of its predecessors and deaths that viewers saw sometimes came back alive in characters such as . Let’s not entirely count as she is from the Terran universe.

“The Starfleet Manual offers no regulatory guidelines for interactions between humans with Klingons grafted to their bones and a ship’s doctor returned from the dead.”

Commander Suru

In two seasons, Discovery encountered more deaths revolving around its main crew and adversaries than ever before. Is it due to the new trend made famous through the series of Game of Thrones or The Walking Dead? Killing characters that the viewer wouldn’t expect is now something familiar. Don’t get attached too quickly; your favorite character might die in the next 42 minutes!

[image error]Star Trek Discovery – CBS All Access

So far, we said goodbye to a few characters, including , and which brings me to my second thought.

Too Many Captains?

Just in the first season, we saw the command going from the fantastic hands of in charge of the U.S.S. Shenzhou that perished at the Battle of the Binary Stars to the awesome anti-hero commanding the U.S.S. Discovery.

Neither makes it to the end of the first season. Despite coming back, she isn’t the captain we saw but the ex-Empress of the Terran universe. It is still unknown either we’ll see the true or not.

[image error]Star Trek Discovery – CBS All Access

In the second season, the Discovery was in the hands of . makes an excellent second in command but lacks the many unique qualities that Star Trek captains showed in its predecessors. There is something about that doesn’t say: Star Trek Captain despite now showing a strong backbone and more strength in his command.

“If you’re telling me this ship can skip across the cosmos on a highway made of mushrooms, I kind of have to go on faith.”

Captain Pike

His command doesn’t last long when walks on the bridge and must lead Discovery on a new mission. Then again, in the two last episodes of the season, we must say goodbye to and hello again to in the commanding chair.

Here’s what I think, there is only two way I see the series going: either is now permanently in command or Discovery will continuously have a new captain each year. Either way, we are on new grounds.

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Star Trek never had a constant rotating captain and never had an alien as the main captain of its crew. So, to me, it is groundbreaking either way, but I don’t know if I’m entirely comfortable with the idea…yet.

Birth of the Borg

It is not secret, in the Star Trek universe, The Borg are the biggest threat to the galaxy or at least two out of four quadrants as far as we know. The Borg are a cybernetic alien species which to grow conquers worlds by assimilating not only its people but also its technology and use it to their advantage and moves on to the next and so on.

The Borg functions like a beehive, which means there are a queen and its drones. They think as one and act as one. Which you would think is, and it is, however, there is no “I” or “Me” or individuality.

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For the hive to work, everyone functions as one entity governed by the queen. Throughout the Star Trek franchise, starting with The Next Generation, the alien species comes to the small screen through Q.

Created out of nothing, little did the writer know he just made one of the most powerful villains of all time in science fiction history: the Borg’s personality and views developed through TNG and Voyager. However, Discovery brought something strange with it the A.I., the Control, the Sphere.

[image error]Star Trek Discovery – Section 31 – Control

Those three words alone to me equal the possibility of the Borg. The Borg is a cybernetic entity. It started somewhere. They are old, but Discovery now is going to the future to protect the knowledge of 100’000 years that belonged to an organic being called the Sphere who died and decided to share its mind with Discovery‘s computer, from Control—Section 31’s Threat Assessment System aka the AI.

Let us not forget, the AI is capable of possessing people by entering its body and suddenly we would see the veins turning black and the skin ghostly in appearance: the Borg?

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The Borg is a threat that needs a beginning. I wonder if this is its beginning. We think killed it and she does believe that she did. However, who knows? came back; why not Control?

I know some believe this theory to be far-fetched, but I disagree, if elaborated correctly, we might see more of this knowledge, and with a suit capable of going back and forth in time, it gives the Borg the edge and a possible beginning.

What Now?

So, now and are right back where they belong: on the Enterprise. U.S.S. Discovery is where it should be, we believe, far in the future where it can protect the knowledge of the Sphere from Control who is supposedly dead.

However, as far as we know, that red dot in the sky more than hundred days later that showed up in the sky might as well be Control wearing the suit fooling everyone in the “present.”

[image error]Star Trek Discovery – Captain Christopher Pike

After all, time is relative.

For those who got attached to , do not despair! A rumor is out that there might be a spin-off just for in the making. I know I’d watch it! I’ll miss the Queen, Tilly’s friend, but hopefully, we’re not done seeing her if gets his spin-off.

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It is just a hunch so far, but I doubt that we’re done with and too. If the Discovery stuck in the future, are we again saying goodbye to great and rich characters? I doubt it.

Something might have Discovery either come back or force others to join them in the future or, they’ll be part of the spin-off.

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Either way, Discovery left us again with more questions than answer despite bringing the Red Angel question to a conclusion.

Now, we wait.

The OCD Borg,
Alexa Wayne

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