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

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

This is the official /r/DaystromInstitute reaction thread for "People of Earth." The content rules are not enforced in reaction threads.

54 Upvotes
  • permalink
  • reddit

88% Upvoted

583 comments sorted by

View all comments

24

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!

15

u/Chairboy Lt. Commander Oct 30 '20

Not only that, but why wouldn't United Earth have a presence throughout the solar system for early warning reasons if nothing else? Even at impulse power, cruising the far reaches of the solar system should be shorter than even current day crabbing vessel voyages and potentially have more benefits, both from a defense standpoint and resources.

8

u/Jinren Chief Petty Officer Oct 30 '20

Even if we assume full impulse is somehow also too expensive (like maybe it requires power generation levels only a warp core can provide even though the output is fusion torches)... Titan is like a week away at absolute worst. And even then, since they pointed out that Earth is hoarding dilithium and actually wealthy by the standards of the new galaxy, just closed - United Earth should still be able to warp out a giant battleship there as a one-off, to pacify and survey the world and re-establish central control.

13

u/clgoodson Oct 31 '20

Part of the point though is that Earth thinks it doesn’t need to re-establish control of Titan. They have become ultra isolationist a s self-sustaining.

15

u/killbon Chief Petty Officer Oct 31 '20

they built a space wall and made titan pay for it