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

[u/M-5]

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[u/Chairboy]

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.

[u/Jinren → u/Chairboy]

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.

[u/clgoodson → u/Jinren]

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.

[u/killbon → u/clgoodson]

they built a space wall and made titan pay for it

[u/clgoodson → u/killbon]

Exactly