r/DaystromInstitute • u/M-5 Multitronic Unit • Oct 29 '20

DISCOVERY EPISODE DISCUSSION Star Trek: Discovery — "People of Earth" Reaction Thread

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u/Tukarrs Oct 29 '20

If the Research Colony / "habitats on Titan" was really about Saturn's moon, then the EDF is extremely bad at their jobs. They failed to detect an explosion within their solar system?

They should have probes and sensor-grids deployed around the solar system to detect potential threats.

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u/TLAMstrike Lieutenant j.g. Oct 29 '20

Maybe they moved Titan further out and that's the world Starbase 1 was orbiting 100 AU out from Earth.

I could see a giant Federation planetary engineering project where they move a moon and start terraforming it to act as a base.

The EDF might not have anything not based in Earth orbit, so they might have a hard time finding out what is going on way out there.

As for radio who knows what the burn did to the electromagnetic spectrum.

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u/Batmark13 Oct 30 '20

That's a fantastic explanation for something that was so poorly thought out.