Because acting in a movie series prohibits any actor from starring in a television show.  

 

No it doesn't but there can be scheduling conflicts.

 

So now we know why Discovery and Burnham are never mentioned in the original timeline.

Now with Discovery in the future, they can be free to tell new stories without affecting the previous continuity

 

I no longer have access to the series for the time being would you mind p.m.ing me an explanation

 

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Pike, Number One, Tyler all told Starfleet that Discovery was destroyed and they put a gag order on mentioning Discovery, Burnham, The Spore Drive so nobody else would know.

The Season ends with the Enterprise finally seeing the 7th signal Burnham sent in the Beta quadrant 57000 light years away (which shouldnt be possible or Starfleet would have been able to see Voyager in the Delta Quadrant, little goof there)

Burnham led Discovery in the future, but we wont know what happened there until season 3.

According to one of the shorts, Discovery survives and gets an AI but is abandoned.

 

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i don’t understand why you consider that a goof

Voyager traveled 75000 light years

 

Discovery ignores the science behind how long it'd take for Starfleet to receive a signal from that far away. Even assuming it was sent using subspace, it'd take decades for Starfleet to detect it. This is why it was so difficult for Starfleet to communicate with Voyager when they found out the ship was in the Delta Quadrant, and had to find new means to accomplish it.

 

OK maybe I wasn’t necessarily thinking distance when I asked that question

But correct me if I’m wrong but there are parts of the beta quadrants that are closer to federation territory correct?

 

Part of the Federation is in the Beta quadrant. It's also where the Romulan and Klingon homeworlds are. For some reason they hardly ever mention that in the series, making it seem like everyone is in the Alpha Quadrant. But 57000 light years would still be extremely far away. By comparison, Bajor was considered the frontier of explored space for the Federation, and that's only about 50 light years away (according to the DS9 Technical Manual) from the core of Federation space.

 

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But who's to say burnham didn't go 57000 years into the past, and send the signal, so it would reach starfleet in the present?

Mind you, same issue when they first went to terrisium.

Overall, I'm well satisfied with that ending. Disco 2 was a much improvement over disco 1. Only real question is, the first ep had all 7 signals pop up at once (which is also a problem because two of them are at terrisium) That's unexplained.

And if that ending isn't a perfect lead in to a pike series, i don't know what is.

 

Disco?

 

short for discovery

 

That. Short hand on my phone because i was being a lazy arse. Disco 1 is discovery series 1.

 

Yeah I thought all 7 signals were detected at the start it was just one of them stayed and the others stopped. Now the 7th went off again? Whatever.

It was pretty good season even if it was all just to defeat Skynet again. It definitely feels like a perfect lead in to Pike series. I can't see them stories of Disco in the future. Wonder if the Department of Temporal Investigations goes after them.

 

Yeah, unfortunately, the signal that lead them to Terralysium would go to disprove that idea. They detected that signal in real time while it was active, despite being 51,450 light years away. The only issue that episode brings up was being able to reach it before it disappeared again, which the spore drive allowed them to do. Really, when any of the signals appeared, despite being spread out across the galaxy, they made it sound as though they were detecting them while they were active, all in real time, rather than the years it'd take for the signals to reach them.

 

Giorgiou giggling like a schoolgirl while Control was what could be described as horrible pain shows that her sadistic terran streak is very much alive.

 

Exactly. Like i said, the first terrylysium signal caused the same problem. And if two signals cam from there, wouldn't the initial seven only be six since two would overlap?

They were. That's how they knew there were 7. I'd love it if daniels popped up to find out what they're doing in the future.

 

Alex Kurtzman gave an interview about plans for season 3... And there are a couple of points he raises in the interview that are concerning.

I find it interesting this is essentially what many fans have been saying they should have done with Discovery in the first place. But does he not realize jumping ahead 950 years does not make them "completely free of canon"? If it's still set in the same "Prime" universe, it's not a "new" universe. He goes on to say that they will make "canonical references" in season 3, but so far into the future, it'll be a distant memory... Which is fine, but I really have to question if he knows what "canon" means at this point. They aren't "completely free" from canon at all. They're just in a setting where they wont have to be as concerned about maintaining continuity (not that they ever really did).

All I can say to this is... wow. They only just realized people enjoy the other characters being developed? Really says a lot doesn't it?

 

I mean geeze, the man could say everyone on the ship is getting a puppy and some fans will complain that they’re allergic to dogs and this is a diss to cats.

I think folks have to just step away from this and realize they are just incapable of enjoying it for what it is.

This show was fine. It was a good Trek show. It didn’t fit the mold of older Trek shows but that’s okay. Furthermore, older Trek shows had the same good things and bad things as this show. But this “automatic” negativity towards the show just makes you look like an ex-boyfriend who can’t keep talking about his ex. She wasn’t bad. You broke up with her. She moved on. You should too.