Michael's next mutiny
Feb. 2nd, 2018 08:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizbeeI only have about a 40% success rate with predicting Discovery's plot developments, and it's only that good because I hopped on a certain bandwagon right after "Despite Yourself", having argued strongly against it previously. But I have a theory, and I like it enough to record it for posterity, ie, you can all come back and point and laugh when I turn out to be wrong on Monday.
Early on, a lot of people (including me) thought we'd end up with Michael leading a second mutiny, this time against Lorca, and this time with the support of Saru and the crew.
As it turns out, we were ever so slightly off-track about Lorca's long-term survival, but it occurred to me this morning that it could still happen.
The logline for next week goes, "Back on the U.S.S. Discovery, Burnham and the crew are faced with the harsh reality of the war during their absence. In order to move forward, Starfleet must use unconventional tactics and sources to take their next action against the Klingons." The trailer includes Georgiou telling Sarek (it seems) she could bring the Klingons to their knees, and she's as unconventional a source as any.
So what if Georgiou proposes some kind of extreme action against the Klingons? Say, spore drive into Qo'nos' orbit, drop some nukes (or asteroids, or a bioweapon, or Lorca's tribble, or whatever), spore drive out, send a friendly message telling the Klingons to withdraw from Federation space and start paying reparations, or else they'll do it again.
It sounds like they're just desperate enough to seriously consider that -- either Kat, or Sarek, or both.
(Who is in charge here? How much of Starfleet Command and the civilian government are left? Sarek has the title of ambassador, but quite often seems to be acting like he's on the Federation Council. Has anyone actually given any thought to how the Federation's government works? This is the type of thought that keeps me up at night.)
It's one thing to take a stand for Federation values when you're in the Mirror Universe and dealing with Klingon spies and thinly-veiled Trump allegories. It's just a tiny bit harder when you're dealing with the Federation itself, as embodied by The Only Sane Admiral and Your Disapproving Dad.
I can see this ending in another rejection of the no-win scenario -- cannot wait for Tilly's Kobayashi Maru, by the way -- and a third option in the form of time travel to undo the nine months Discovery was missing (and also swing by and pick up Hugh, or revive him, or whatever).
But in the meantime, just as Lorca had to teach his crew how to pass as natives in an alien dimension (...man, we really should have seen this coming), Michael has to teach Saru and the rest of the team how to lead a mutiny.
(And also have a long talk with Philippa about war crimes. Starting with the fact that the concept exists, and eventually moving on to the idea that they are bad. I figure it'll go like the scenes in The Good Place where Chidi tries to teach ethics to Michael.)
Early on, a lot of people (including me) thought we'd end up with Michael leading a second mutiny, this time against Lorca, and this time with the support of Saru and the crew.
As it turns out, we were ever so slightly off-track about Lorca's long-term survival, but it occurred to me this morning that it could still happen.
The logline for next week goes, "Back on the U.S.S. Discovery, Burnham and the crew are faced with the harsh reality of the war during their absence. In order to move forward, Starfleet must use unconventional tactics and sources to take their next action against the Klingons." The trailer includes Georgiou telling Sarek (it seems) she could bring the Klingons to their knees, and she's as unconventional a source as any.
So what if Georgiou proposes some kind of extreme action against the Klingons? Say, spore drive into Qo'nos' orbit, drop some nukes (or asteroids, or a bioweapon, or Lorca's tribble, or whatever), spore drive out, send a friendly message telling the Klingons to withdraw from Federation space and start paying reparations, or else they'll do it again.
It sounds like they're just desperate enough to seriously consider that -- either Kat, or Sarek, or both.
(Who is in charge here? How much of Starfleet Command and the civilian government are left? Sarek has the title of ambassador, but quite often seems to be acting like he's on the Federation Council. Has anyone actually given any thought to how the Federation's government works? This is the type of thought that keeps me up at night.)
It's one thing to take a stand for Federation values when you're in the Mirror Universe and dealing with Klingon spies and thinly-veiled Trump allegories. It's just a tiny bit harder when you're dealing with the Federation itself, as embodied by The Only Sane Admiral and Your Disapproving Dad.
I can see this ending in another rejection of the no-win scenario -- cannot wait for Tilly's Kobayashi Maru, by the way -- and a third option in the form of time travel to undo the nine months Discovery was missing (and also swing by and pick up Hugh, or revive him, or whatever).
But in the meantime, just as Lorca had to teach his crew how to pass as natives in an alien dimension (...man, we really should have seen this coming), Michael has to teach Saru and the rest of the team how to lead a mutiny.
(And also have a long talk with Philippa about war crimes. Starting with the fact that the concept exists, and eventually moving on to the idea that they are bad. I figure it'll go like the scenes in The Good Place where Chidi tries to teach ethics to Michael.)
