![]() And we didn’t need an overly contrived war history. As a long-time Trekkie, I thought I should summarize the five key things that went wrong with the show-five things that quickly turned anticipation into disappointment. I have already written about my early impression of Star Trek: Discovery’s first episodes on PopMatters. Discovery quickly and profoundly moves into fantasy science, much more akin to that found in Star Wars than in its Trek predecessors. ![]() Star Trek, at its best, at least paid attention to its violations of science and reached for an explanation often grounded in theory. But because it was Star Trek, and because it pre-dated TOS, the creators, writers and producers set themselves up for comparisons of production and style, as well as those of logic and canon. We will will close out each of those issues before we arrive at the 10 year period and hit TOS.Had Star Trek: Discovery not been created as part of the Star Trek franchise, it probably would have made an interesting new show that would have taken the place of more recently departed dark Sci-Fi like Battlestar Galactica. ![]() We are wildly aware of everything that appears to be a deviation from canon. We are ten years before The Original Series…Where Constitution Class ships are in comparison to where this Discovery prototype – well one of two prototypes, well now one of one prototypes – are technologically is obviously a variant. We are not the Kelvin timeline…which is a reboot of the original timeline…We are not part of that timeline, we are the original timeline with the TV shows and the movies that fit into that. The Discovery it would appear (since we are only early in the series at the time of writing) has "normal" warp engines to get where it's going but has the experimental spore drive in development in the hopes of a significant miltary advantage. I think there is a reference to 1.3 seconds to the Beta Quadrant but this might include power-up time but, apparently, distance is not factor and if that is the case then there is no velocity equation that can be used to compare. The spore drive is, for all intents and purposes, instantaneous travel to any part of the galaxy. I am a rather new Star Trek viewer, I was only old enough when Stargate was showing so that was my original entry into sci-fi! I am assuming the series will go into this detail later on, maybe the spore drive dies or cannot be used so they go back to warp engines, but for now I can't work out how to compare these speeds that the ships are all going at. So between this time, during the Discover timeline we have a spore drive which can go at X, beating any current warp speed (around 5), but then this seems to be over when it comes to warp 8. In The Original Series, set after the Discovery timeline, USS Enterprise NCC-1701, could run at a maximum speed of warp 8. In Enterprise, the titular ship Enterprise NX-01 could go at a maximum warp speed of 5.06. This spore drive seems to indicate that it is the fastest available ever. I am struggling to compare the differences. However, in other series a lot of speed is mentioned as a particular warp speed. During the show it is saying how it can travel vast distances pretty much instantaneously. We are in 2256 and the Discovery is currently experimenting with a spore drive. I am trying to get my head around this as it doesn't make sense to me at the moment.
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