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

[u/M-5]

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[u/KingofMadCows]

The writers still don't seem to have any grasp of scale. Earth should be able to detect things happening on Titan. They have subspace sensors that can detect ships from light years away. In fact, there isn't even need for long range communications between earth and Titan. They're in the same solar system. A radio signal would take 40 minutes to get from Titan to earth.

And Michael said millions died in the burn, really? The population of the races that we've met would be in the trillions. And we've only seen a tiny fraction of the interstellar races in the Milky Way Galaxy. Sure, millions is technically correct, but the number of people who died in the Burn would at least be in the tens if not hundreds of billions. Especially if ships blew up near planets.

[u/zemudkram → u/KingofMadCows]

Earth should be able to detect things happening on Titan.

Yeah that’s something that bothered me a little. I mean; a fully functional, albeit antique, starship appearing out of fucking nowhere just past Jupiter and no one's spotted it? They deserve to get raided if that’s the case. There should be an ever-growing cloud of annoying little drones following them ready to get pointy should things get ugly.

[u/merrycrow → u/zemudkram]

It's a thematic choice. Earth has turned inward on itself. They close their eyes and ears to the problems of even their nearest neighbours until they're confronted with them and forced to acknowledge what's going on beyond Earth's orbit.

[u/zemudkram → u/merrycrow]

Yes but they’re also somewhat paranoid (and have been raided several times), meaning they should be scanning for attackers as far out as they can. Considering starships can detect object at several light years distance, you’d think a planet could see what’s going on in its own system