![]() But what Discovery Season 3 might be suggesting is that perhaps those warp engine revisions weren’t enough. By the time of Voyager, warp nacelles had been redesigned to avoid harming spacetime. More pointedly though, in the TNG episode “Force of Nature,” it’s revealed that warp speed itself is bad for the fabric of spacetime, and as such, warp speed limits had to be enforced to prevent the galaxy from being torn apart. In “That Hope Is You, Part 1” Book mentions that his “dilithium recrystalizer” doesn’t work anymore, which might imply that nobody else is able to pull that off either. In both the Short Treks episode “Runaway,” and the movie The Voyage Home, the idea of a “dilithium recrystallization” becomes tech that everyone relies upon quickly. ![]() In the TOS episode “Mirror, Mirror,” the Enterprise is trying to negotiate with a pacifist race called the Halkans, specifically to get them to give up their crystals. In the Discovery Season 2 episode “An Obol for Charon,” Stamets mentions that the ecologies of several planets have been ruined by dilithium-mining. Still, throughout Trek’s history, worrying about dilithium and its scarcity has been a big deal. That said, one has to infer that warp drive - at least warp 1, the speed of light - is possible without dilithium, since it seems unlikely that Zefram Cochrane had any dilithium crystals on Earth in 2063. The role dilithium plays in this process is to control the reaction and regulate it. Throughout the Star Trek franchise, the ability to travel at warp speed - or to exceed the speed of light by several intervals - is described as a controlled reaction between matter and antimatter. Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 Episode 1 Review: That Hope is You, Part 1 By Kayti Burt What are the post-Burn implications for Star Trek tech? After Burnham presses Book to clue her in on events that happened “100, 150” ago, here’s how he describes The Burn: This question is answered outright by Book (David Ajala) in the Discovery Season 3 premiere. “What is the Burn?” And the answer to that question looks like it will shape not only the rest of DiscoverySeason 3 but, possibly, the entire future-history of Star Trek. The biggest what question Burnham has in episode 1, is actually a straight-up WTF. Burnham is unstuck in time and space, and in an attempt to get herself grounded, needs to figure out the who, what, where, when, and why of everything going on around her. Basically, from a narrative point-of-view, she is Alice, and the man known as Book is her Cheshire Cat. But, in Season 3, Burnham doesn’t bother quoting these books. In Seasons 1 and 2 of Discovery, Burnham quoted from one of Spock’s favorite books, Alice In Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass. This is science fiction worldbuilding 101: Make your protagonist a fish-out-of-water, that way, the audience can learn about the kooky rules of this new sci-fi world right alongside your hero. When Burnham runs into Book’s ship in the first episode of Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 - “That Hope Is You, Part 1” - she’s set-up to spend the rest of the first episode asking a lot of questions. This Star Trek: Discovery article contains major spoilers for the Season 3 premiere.
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