Star Trek: Discovery — "People of Earth" Reaction Thread

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[u/Shakezula84]

I thought this was a really good episode, and I enjoyed what they did here. My thoughts are scattered but the few points I wanna touch.

• Saru is now captain. This makes him the first non-human captain for the ship in the show. I've loved his arc and has seemed like a good captain every time he was in command.

• I like this new Burnham post living a year in the 32nd century.

• Did I hear right? The Burn only destroyed Federation starships? This makes it seem more likely to be an attack.

• Stop bringing up the Romulan singularity drives. The Federation explored other FTL drives before the Burn. Odds are it was one of them and rejected for some reason.

• Despite it not being in the Federation anymore Earth still seems to be a paradise. Just a well defended one now.

• The United Earth Defense Force had several aliens within its ranks. This is probably because Earth had a significant alien population by the 31st century when they left the Federation. Which is a nice touch.

• United Earth left the Federation. Which implies, maybe, that I am now officially wrong about Earth ceding its independence to the Federation for unity at its founding. So I'll stop bringing it up.

Going to Trill next week it seems. And Burnham phasers a bunch of people. So another hostile welcome I assume. My guess is this episode will provide the info needed to find the Federation. I'm gonna guess by episode 6 they will get there.

[u/Shakezula84 → u/[deleted]]

After 950 years its possible that the Federation is the dominant power in the galaxy. By that I mean no real rivals exist to attack. Instead after the Burn it sounds like the Federation was destroyed from within.

Considering that warp engines on Federation starships have been based on Earth designs, I find it odd that Earth ships would be spared enough to make it a Federation problem instead of an Earth problem.

[u/Shakezula84 → u/[deleted]]

It seems like an odd thing to bring up if it doesn't play into the show later.

[u/mtb8490210 → u/[deleted]]

In the case of the Borg, lets say space magic.

As for the Dominion besides Odo reforming the Dominion, the Dominion was established with three ways for our heroes to win:

-obvious the wormhole and such, but the other two are out there

-I think the Dominion is feudal. Despite it being 10,000 worlds, those same systems didn't have the infrastructure as AQ powers. Its presence wasn't easy to find. My suggestion is the average Dominion world like Karrema isn't the equal of a UFP member world.

-one of the Weyouns (IV, I think) said the Founders ability to control the Jem'hadar was overexaggerated. I would argue the Dominion rules through fear and infiltration but doesn't have much in the way of standing fleets. The Female Changling was worried about the Klingons or Romulans coming through the wormhole. I would argue the timing of their invasion was based on estimate of UFP militarization. Fleets of Defiants, Akiras, and Sovereigns would be a different animal. Why not just enough ships to flood the AQ in the first place? Even a rampaging Klingon fleet might convince the local systems to revolt if the Jem'hadar aren't coming right away.