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The full trailer for Discovery's upcoming Season 3 came out yesterday.
First, it seems that the Federation has NOT fallen. However, it does seem to be very much in decline.
Starfleet also seems to still exist. What appears to be a 32nd Century uniform appears. Tough to make out details because it appears only momentarily, but it seems be similar (but not identical) to 29th Century uniforms.
The event that led to the Federation's decline is referred to as the "Burn". (Hmm... "Burn"... "Burnham"...) My completely baseless theory is that somebody Omega moleculed the galaxy, but that Disco's spore drive is unaffected somehow and they try to put the Federation back together.
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I hate "fall of the Federation" shit.
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I’m with Krenim, it sounds like there’s some sort of natural-ish disaster, and Omega particles would certainly tie in with the spore drive to make the Discovery an important ship despite its age.
The good news is, this show can only be better than Andromeda was, right? *fingers crossed*
And there’s going to be a cat! That’s an automatic +1 in my book.
I’m very curious to see if/how “Calypso” fits in to season 3. When it was first released, we all assumed that it was set ~1000 years after 2258... but what if it’s set a thousand years after 3188?
It might also be possible that whatever disaster happened, there are different fragments of the Federation that each survive, though out of contact with each other. That could explain how mangled names like V’Draysh arise.
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