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* As far back as the 24th Century, starships had the ability to recrystallise dilithium in their warp cores. As far back as the 23rd Century, it was possible to restore Dilithium using particles obtained from a primitive atomic fission power plant. The most huge problem with season 3 is the highly artificial cataclysm that really isn't even slightly plausible.

Ever since 2009, Star Trek sure seems to love its natural disasters that affect the whole galaxy.

That said, I don’t really buy it. By the 32nd century, I doubt they’d still be reliant on Dilithium, or incapable of manufacturing it artificially. I can’t imagine the time-drives, bigger-on-the-inside space-pods, temporal observatories and the like with powered by dilithium; if they could beam people through time, it seems to me that they had self-contained super-powerful power sources far beyond the matter/antimatter/dilithium-chamber reactions of the 22nd-24th centuries. Plus, they could beam people through time in Relativity… and a single ship could beam them to/from the Delta Quadrant and Mars without hassle… it makes transwarp beaming (which was invented in the Prime universe already, pre-Hobus) look like a ship-to-surface transport by comparison. Not to mention the numerous other forms of travel that Starfleet has encountered- from subspace catapults to coaxial drive to ‘transwarp coils’ to soliton waves- which needed no Dilithium, which I’m sure seven extra centuries of technological development would easily be able to make work in a practical way. As I saw someone else online pointing out,t eh Romulans had mastered non-Dilithium power sources and warp drives for literal centuries, the Federation could doubtless have switched over all their ships to something like that in a heartbeat, at their tech level; in the 31st century, probably even chest-badge communicators could have micro-singularities built-in, with an artificial wormhole generator nestled right next to them to route the communications to the far side of the cosmos. :-)

So, yeah. I get the universe they are trying to make- a limited-resources kinda space-travel-is-something-you-can’t-take-for-granted-anymore sort of thing, and a rebuild-the-Federation storyline. I understand what the Burn is meant to accomplish. But I don’t buy a dilithium shortage in the 32nd century crippling the Federation the way a dilithium shortage in the 24th century would. Their technology had moved way, *way* beyond that by this point. They could easily beam from planet to planet without starships if needed; maybe even beam the starships from system to system without FTL travel. Not to mention the various alternate forms of FTL…

Maybe a mass-Omega Molecule explosion destroying subspace or something might have been more effective, with people stuck charting routes through the rare intact-areas of space? I dunno. Either way, I think they could have come up with a much better explanation for what they were trying to accomplish here; this one doesn't check out, even by the end of the 24th century.

The small caveat of not buying the base premise at all aside… this sounds like a promising direction, at least.

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it reminded me of the series Andromeda.
a fallen great nation having to be put back together by people from the past.

I believe the planet in "The Enemy Within" is Alfa-177, not Alfa-117.

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Yes, Grudge!

I think the Cause of the "Burn" is going to get dangled in front of us until about halfway through the season when we find out what it actually is. Much like Burnham's "Grievous Offence" to distance herself from Spock last season. I'm also expecting it will be several episodes before she reunites with the rest of the crew back on Discovery. Enough time to grow those long braids at least. :)

Yup, that's a promising start :)

We have a little bit of detail on "The Burn" now, which means dilithium is in short supply, which makes me think Discovery is going to be a double game changer for this new era - she has a FTL drive that is not dilithium dependent and she perhaps has really, really good dilithium recrystallisation technology aboard that was reconfigured by Po to hold the time crystal... Suddenly this diminished Federation has something to offer. I'd presume in the intervening centuries, the mycelial network has had a chance to recover fully.

Also Grudge :)

Okay, if you suffer from motion sickness... be careful for about the first 20 minutes of the Premier. The director went overboard with the camera movements, lol!

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This image was commissioned by vagarcia74 (with a few minor modifications not shown here).

So, I had to do a "realistic" version of the USS Cerritos. Given that the show is heavily stylized, I thought to myself, the ship must also have more details in a "real world" setting. So I added some classic Trek greebles and nurnies, just for the fun of it. I tweaked some proportions, played with deck layouts, and here we go: my own California class design.

BTW, don't you think this ship is the love child of my Polaris and a Nebula class ship?

Model by me

In the five DS9 Mirror Universe episodes we can see several variations of the emblem of the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance. Read in Jörg’s new article on The Evolution of the Alliance Emblem.

Not all starship types of Star Trek are well-documented. Sometimes they can be seen only briefly on screen, and further information is hard to come by. I have compiled a list of such obscure designs, together with pretty much everything we know about them: Obscure Yet Interesting Starships.

Many awards, diplomas and other memorabilia can be seen stored in Picard’s quantum archive room in PIC: “Remembrance”, among them various trophies presented to Picard over the course of his career. Jörg has identified and summarized them in the new article The Trophies in Picard’s Quantum Archive.