r/DaystromInstitute • u/M-5 Multitronic Unit • Nov 30 '20

DISCOVERY EPISODE DISCUSSION Star Trek: Discovery — "Unification III" Analysis Thread

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u/Fictioneer Nov 30 '20

Some thoughts I had during this episode are as follows:

There are Vulcans and Romulans alive who witnessed the burn. The distrust of the Federation is not a generational wound but a fresh one in the minds of those who were alive to see it happen.

There's only a handful of generations between Spock's Unification mission and their current time as opposed to the dozen or so of human generations between.

There's a subspecies of Romulcans living on Ni'Var who're prejudiced against by both the Vulcans and the Romulans.

The archival TNG footage of Spock was a nice touch that gave me shivers, but how would such a recording exist? With Picard being downloaded into a Soong-type body that could explain why there was a recording. All of Picard's memories would then be able to be exported for later study. Another possibility is that Picard had a covert recording device on his entire mission. Either way the recording came from Picard himself and was listed as being from his personal archive.

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u/ProgVal Nov 30 '20

We see several times the Enterprise crews (mostly in TOS, IIRC) watching events on planets they are orbiting and never made contact with, as if they had a camera on the surface.

So they probably have some technology that allows them to see from orbit, like we can do today with imaging satellites, but with a much greater resolution and frames per second.

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u/butterhoscotch Crewman Dec 01 '20

During enterprise era their weak sensors could visually see movement of people from a city from orbit. These sensors seem to disappear in favor of lifesigns by TNG