History WMG / StarTrekDiscovery

** Picard takes place around 2400? Season 3 takes place in 3188. That is roughly a 750-800 year time difference, and alot can happen in that amount of time. There is a very real chance we are going to find out none of the major powers we know of survived, and its all new ones in charge for what ever reasons.

* Jossed. As shown in "Far From Home", Georgiou accompanied ''Discovery'' into the 32nd Century.

* Jossed. As shown in "Far From Home", ''Discovery'' directly arrived in the 32nd Century with no detours along the way.

[[WMG: Before the ''Discovery'' actually arrives at the 33rd century, something goes wrong and they have to do a small stopover in the post-[[Film/StarTrekNemesis Nemesis]] era (late 24th / early 25th century)...]]

[[WMG: The U.S.S. Discovery will be entirely outmatched by anything in the 31st century.]]

Contrary to popular WMG opinion, the ''Discovery'' and her crew will manage to jump back to their Prime Universe -- but the [[TheCorruption accumulated damage]] to the mycelial network will lead to all further use of or research into the mycelial network being utterly banned[[note]]Will Starfleet still have their "[[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk top people]]" on it?[[/note]], and the crew still have to deal with the extreme disrepute brought upon them by their Mirror Universe counterparts, who have been [[RapePillageAndBurn rampaging unchecked]] across [[BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork the prime-universe warzone]] for days, if not weeks. In an ironic juxtaposition, Burnham's reputation will be quietly restored, while that of her ship and crewmates will be utterly trashed, and the rest of the Federation either will [[CassandraTruth disbelieve]] the existence of the MirrorUniverse, or the information will be firmly hushed by Starfleet and the rampage probably pinned on [[TheScapegoat Captain Lorca]] (whether his EvilCounterpart comes back to the prime universe or not). The formula to break the Klingon cloak will be brought back to Starfleet, but the Klingon War will just recede into a ColdWar as the Klingons begin to fragment among themselves, and the war will not truly end until the Organians force negotiations to take place [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries a decade later]].

It’s the equivalent of taking medieval longboats against the present day Royal Navy. Options: - not much space combat (unlikely because viewers love that sort of thing); a total retrofit (but how much retrofitting can a hull from a millennium ago take?); or a whole new ship (in which case can we still call it Star Trek: Discovery?)

It’s the equivalent of taking medieval long legs against the present day Royal Navy. Options: - not much space combat (unlikely because viewers love that sort of thing); a total retrofit (but how much retrofitting can a hull from a millennium ago take?); or a whole new ship (in which case can we still call it Star Trek: Discovery?)

By the start of the series, Captain Georgiou is talking about Burnham being due to take on her own starship command. But the USS ''Shenzhou'' stumbles upon ancient Klingons in deep space who promptly awaken from their SuspendedAnimation, and Burnham advocates [[AttackAttackAttack an aggressive strategy]] to end the threat. But the crew has no idea what they're facing, and RealityEnsues as a CurbStompBattle leads to the ship getting overwhelmed and wrecked with the loss of many of the crew. Quite possibly, Capt. Georgiou falls victim to the MentorOccupationalHazard in the process and the survivors [[AbandonShip abandon the ship]] to save their lives.

* Deep in Klingon space, T'Kuvma and his people have returned from their long exile (or SuspendedAnimation). Some Klingons, such as Kol, flock to his side, but many others see him as a pretender. He decides to venture out to seek a worthy adversary to prove himself and his followers before the Empire in glorious battle.

The original captain and XO die in combat, and she takes command at the rank of Lt.Cmdr. At some point, like in DeepSpaceNine, she gets promoted to an actual captain.

Recall that the copy of the Doctor was already seven hundred years into the future relative to the 24th century when ''Voyager'' crossed the Delta Quadrant (the furthest "forward" that Star Trek had ever previously depicted). He was then said to have spent many years in a senior medical administrative position before leaving to trace the ship's path back to Earth. That could, conceivably, put him into the same time-frame that ''Discovery'' and her crew jumped to as of the Season 2 finale, and logically he would want to rejoin the Federation, or whatever the government had become as of that era.

* This episode has some striking similarities to the ''TOS'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E14BalanceOfTerror Balance of Terror]]." In "Balance of Terror," in which ''Enterprise'' came face-to-face with a long-absent enemy that had developed heretofore unknown cloaking technology. When a Romulan bird-of-prey probes Federation defenses by destroying several Starfleet outposts along the Neutral Zone, Spock insists that the only way to prevent catastrophe is to fire on that bird-of-prey. Like Burnham (another child of Sarek), Spock is essentially suggesting that ''Enterprie'' give the Romulan ship "The Vulcan Hello." Kirk, who is canonically a history buff, readily accepted the plan; probably knowing what happened the last time a Federation starship found itself in this position but waited too long to take action.

* This episode has some striking similarities to the ''TOS'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E14BalanceOfTerror Balance of Terror]]." In "Balance of Terror," ''Enterprise'' came face-to-face with a long-absent enemy that had developed heretofore unknown cloaking technology. When a Romulan bird-of-prey probes Federation defenses by destroying several Starfleet outposts along the Neutral Zone, Spock insists that the only way to prevent catastrophe is to fire on that bird-of-prey. Like Burnham (another child of Sarek), Spock is essentially suggesting that ''Enterprie'' give the Romulan ship "The Vulcan Hello." Kirk, who is canonically a history buff, readily accepted the plan; probably knowing what happened the last time a Federation starship found itself in this position but waited too long to take action.