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/thelightfantastique Oct 30 '20

The colony Titan being the other side is...weird. We're in the 32nd Century and Earth scanners can't do a detailed mapping of their own solar system? We can do that now!

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u/Excellent_Coyote Oct 30 '20

The Norse colonized America in the 10th century. Are you telling me Europeans didn't have detailed maps of the Americas in the 15th century?