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"In order to widen the opening of the wormhole, the suggestion is to "change out the photon torpedo payloads and replace them with antimatter." Uhm. The standard payload of a photon torpedo *is* antimatter."
Well, Antimatter and regular matter. I'm guessing they replaced everything with antimatter.

They may have a personal cremator instead of a personal transporter.

It is very hard to believe that after some 800 years still no one has an idea what Breen faces look like and what their genetic composition is. Even if all Breen without exception always wore helmets and even if they managed to conceal their biology perfectly, at some point someone must have run into dead Breen or must have spied on them.

And of course obviously Major Kira and Gul Dukat should know exactly what they looked like.

Unless... there's a life-signs monitor in the suits which releases something upon death of the wearer that would actively and quickly destroy the corpse therein..?

The Gorn thing is still in motion though. My gut feeling is that we'd not seen a "real" Gorn until that episode.

The Gorn reproductive cycle shown so far in SNW could not be that of a naturally evolved technological race. It requires plentiful hosts, each offspring is almost instantly able to breed yet fiercely competitive with those around them. This species would breed itself into oblivion unless there was something way worse predating them.

It screams "Bio Terror Weapon!" very loudly though, with any surviving "Adult" versions perhaps being capable of being "reprogrammed" into a usable soldier.

The resolution of this cliff hanger will give us a lot more insight I suspect, with Pike's determination to actually find common ground with them.

If it had been the USS defiant the ship would now be at least 1137 years old :)

There is no reason in the story for this ship to be the ISS Enterprise except for the one one moment when Burnham sees Booker working at what would have been Spock's console on the USS Enterprise (in an attempt to contribute to the "family reunion" theme). And considering that all ships of one class are alike, it could have been any other Connie of the Terran fleet, if saving costs by using SNW sets was the principal goal.

Someone else gets it, thank Madden.

Yes, while I remember Kirk fearing the Gorn was going to kill him, I can't say I can recall him fearing that the Gorn was going to have him for lunch, nor do I remember the Gorn telling Kirk that he was going to eat him. But maybe that's just a 60 something guy starting to lose his memory. But then Kirk can't seem to remember meeting the Gorn before.

Yes, this whole Gorn thing is a mess unless you see it being an alternate timeline like we've had to do with DIS and ENT. I can live with some retroconning here and there. I never found it strange that the NCC-1701 looked like a plastic model from the outside and like a 60s/70s color TV talk show set with it's pastel colors, while the NX Enterprise looked like a spaceship inside and out. It is what is. Bigger budgets and better special effects. But I can't live with this constant canon busting.

What I would have loved to see with the Gorn is a reappearance in TNG as members of the Federation, and an episode showing the history something like this. The Gorn experience with two neighboring mammalian species who were very aggressive and xenophobic had prepared them to be ready to kill mammalians before they could kill the Gorn. That would have been must see Gorn TV.

The bug is somehow tied to Discovery’s power systems, but it still has to transport the whole ship across time and space.

Except it doesn't have to do that, it's "merely" winding it backwards and forwards down its own timeline. Discovery spent 6 hours "not being" where it was and instead was at those other points in the timeline. The only things actually being displaced were Burnham, Rayner and Stammet's consciousness.

The bug was tied into the systems so it could effect the ship, not necessarily to draw power.

The bug is somehow tied to Discovery’s power systems, but it still has to transport the whole ship across time and space. We have to accept it’s enough because the writers said so… But for me it is a bitter pill to swallow.

Starbases must have been built in space; if they can build such huge structures there, building a starship must be possible too. Utopia Shipyards is evidence for orbital and ground construction. Mars’ lower gravity and thin atmosphere could do the trick helping lift bigger elements to orbit. That ugly thing from the second Abramsverse movie seems to have been completely built in space. Now, since Abramsverse movies were built over the “I think it’s cool” rule, expect no logic here. “Kirk on a bike seeing the Enterprise being built. That’ll be cool.”

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Background info:
"The USS ENDURANCE (NCC-1914-A) was constructed following the conclusion of the Dominion War as Starfleet attempted to step down from its war footing and return to its primary mission of peaceful exploration. As one of the final Galaxy-Class starships built, Endurance is a test platform for new technologies intended for future classes. She was specifically designed for long range, deep space exploration, the original mission intended for the Galaxy-Class but one that was seldomly realized. Her new matter / anti-matter reactor incorporates advancements from the Sovereign and Intrepid designs and provides almost 30% more power output with nearly double the efficiency of the original USS GALAXY. Second-generation Bio-Neural computer cores with a dedicated Engineering core further increases the efficiency and automation of ENDURANCE’s engineering systems. Additionally, Engineering Design Labs and industrial replicators located in Main Engineering and several cargo bays increase the ship’s ability to repair itself, provide large-scale assistance to starships and outposts."

You can see the bridge of the Endurance-A here, created by Rekkert : USS Endurance-A Bridge Cutaway

All Endurance-A interior images

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I want to thank @StarTrekOnPPlus for sending a secret signal to adjust my TV screen to compensate for the Lorentzian coefficient and high-energy spectra! :-)

Tongue firmly planted in cheek... ;-)

According to the alien emblems in Moll's Federation watch list file in #StarTrekDiscovery's Mirrors", she must be wanted by (from left to right):
Starfleet, Ni'Var, Earth, Trill, Ferengi, Risians, Hornish, Orions and Andorians. 🙈

Years ago, I read somewhere that the structure in the ceiling of the Romulan holodeck in #StarTrekTNG's "Future Imperfect"⬆️ was created using a Jupiter II model from the 60's TV show "Lost in Space"⬇️. I absolutely can see how this was done! :-)

#StarTrekDiscovery "Mirrors" spoilers

I love the 32nd century update of the Breen emblem, we first see in #StarTrekDiscovery's "Mirrors". It's more angular than the original logo, only seen ever so briefly in #StarTrekDS9's "The Dogs of War", the Star Trek Star Charts and #StarTrekProdigy's "Masquerade" (2nd pic).

The Romulan holodeck, as seen in #StarTrekTNG's "Future Imperfect" was filmed using a miniature. Here it can be seen in the original ⬅️ and remastered ➡️ versions of the episodes. I love the small Romulan that was inserted into the control room in the ceiling. :-)

#StarTrekDiscovery "Mirrors" spoilers

#StarTrekDiscoverySpoilers!!
Here's a transcription of the ISS Enterprise sickbay dedication plaque, as seen in #StarTrekDiscovery's "Mirrors".
The Emperor can only be mirror Spock and the Kelpien mirror Saru.

I think I'm seeing a Shepard class warp nacelle (smaller inset) in the debris field surrounding what is left of Starfleet Headquarters in #StarTrekDiscovery's "Face the Strange".

For the fake future version seen in #StarTrekTNG's "Future Imperfect"⬇️, the (battle bridge) emergency turbo door label has the same brownish color as all the other door labels. On the regular bridge ("Sins of the Father"⬆️) this label is the only one that is fiery red.

#StarTrekDiscovery "Mirrors" spoilers

We get a really good look at the 32nd century version of the Andorian emblem in #StarTrekDiscovery's "Mirrors"⬆️. The 22nd century version of the emblem first appeared in #StarTrekENT's "Proving Ground"⬇️.

Here are all the shots we get of the Ferengi ensign in #StarTrekTNG's "Future Imperfect". Unlike Nog, who's going to wear one matching his uniform color on #StarTrekDS9, this Ferengi is wearing one of the Ferengi military headdresses introduced in season 2's "Peak Performance".