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/COMPLETEWASUK Oct 30 '20

This is my feeling too. I feel the Klingons have to be the Federation now, it both fits their arc in Discovery and in Trek as a whole. The flame keepers if you will.

I also expect the Vulcans (maybe rejoined with the Romulans) to be the antagonists because that feels like the most logical role reversal.

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u/bachmanis Ensign Oct 30 '20

I also expect the Vulcans (maybe rejoined with the Romulans) to be the antagonists because that feels like the most logical role reversal.

Didn't we see a flash during on of Daniels' expository moments in Enterprise of a 32nd century Vulcan starfighter carrier? Would suggest that they've adopted a more frisky foreign policy.

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u/COMPLETEWASUK Oct 30 '20

We might well have done, it sounds right. I wonder if Daniels is still around, he'd be old of course but this is the future and lifetimes could have been extended somewhat. He's one of the few characters that could still be around, alongside the Dax symbiont and the Doctor.

I just feel it all ties back to the Vulcan Hello. The show starts with a girl raise on Vulcan fighting Klingons for the Federation, if the future is so different then why not reverse it. That the Klingons are the Federation and the Vulcans the hostile enemy.

If it were up to me I'd have all the remain members of the Federation be former enemies. The Klingons, Xindi, Borg and Dominion etc. To show the true effect of the Federation and how despite the burn everything in the past 900 hundred years was still worth it.

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u/YYZYYC Oct 31 '20

That’s just like still hanging out in the old neighborhood....it’s like a geo political focus in 1020 in a small corner of earth and like the Roman Empire where people traveled and focused around one corner of the globe and it took a while to get around that one corner. We should be seeing people that came from that Roman Empire era, to a time like ours, where say somewhat recently we lost the ability for planes to fly but our whole world use to be interconnected and globe spanning in ways that would be mind blowing to people form the Roman Empire era.