After the last episode, right now I think the “away crew” is in the transporter pattern buffer during Calypso. Maybe they got thrown back in time during the temporal wars and the captain told Zora to wait out the 1,000 years in some out of the way location to avoid violating the laws against time travel and/or interfering with history or its place in the timeline. Whenever the time is up, Zora is to remove the crew from the buffer and return to headquarters, probably a short period after the crew got thrown back in time. That could also mean that the culprit behind the gravitational anomaly had something to do with the temporal wars. Calypso may be after the Burn but a decade or so before the setting for the current season.
How does Calypso happen?
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It could be, but seems that Calypso’s place in the timeline is “far beyond” Disco’s current setting of the 32nd Century, according to showrunner Michelle Paradise when she spoke to Inverse back when they first started filming Season 4.
Michelle Paradise said:
Honestly, at this point I just don't care how or even if Calypso fits with the rest of the show.
I agree. Personally I think Calypso is hugely overrated. Given that it was written by Michael Chabon, and he has had zero further involvement with Discovery, I think it's best left ignored or explained away as something other than a a NCC-1031-A Discovery that had to be reverted to it's pre-refit design, for reasons. I do like that they have continued to use Zora, though.
In my head canon, the Discovery featured in Calypso is a temporal duplicate from when the ship was travelling through the wormhole and appeared in some uncharted area of space. The crew was all killed in transit and Zora removed the bodies when she gained sentience. Eventually she is attacked by some hostile species and escapes by hiding in the nebula. Zora's cognitive abilities and memory are damaged by the attack and so she can't remember how or why she came to be in the nebula and out of fear concocts the story that crew had to abandon her, but would return. After a thousand years adrift, Zora comes to believe this is true. It would explain why Discover still has a 23rd century shuttle and also why Zora is unfamiliar with terms like 'V'draysh'.
I was thinking Calypso might happen within this week's episode. Still could be done as a 1st half cliffhanger.
Directors change episode to episode. I assume you mean direction?
I think it's probably best to look at Calypso like a proof of concept test for Season 3 & 4 rather than something they're definitely going to try and incorporate into the timeline (no matter what promises they've made), with Craft bearing some resemblance to the character of Book (a family-man and hunter from a Human-looking but non-Federation world where people are given monosyllabic nicknames), the growing sapience/sentience of Zora, Discovery being a thousand years in the future, the Federation at war with people who call them the V'Drayesh, etc.
At some point the Discovery gets left alone for 1,000 years and picks up a guy who dances with her. Easy answer. Moving on.
If only.
Just re-watched Calypso.
They have put themselves into a corner if they intend it to be Canon.
At this point, I would think its easier to just write it off as a duplicate Discovery that emerged when Discovery went into the future. Our Discovery landed on the Icey planet, whilst the duplicate ended in a nebula. Zora's sentience emerges and interprets their mission to protect the sphere data as holding its position in time and space.
Anything else would inevitably feel contrived.
- Hull reverted for some kind of temporal or espionage mission;
- Some kind of duplicate that didn't go to the future, but remained hidden to protect it;
- Zora feeling threatened by Starfleet's concern for her growing sentience (or is ordered by Burnham, to go rogue and send itself somewhere safe) The crew then have to be given a new ship (or that is the end of the show?)
They have put themselves into a corner if they intend it to be Canon.
At this point, I would think its easier to just write it off as a duplicate Discovery that emerged when Discovery went into the future. Our Discovery landed on the Icey planet, whilst the duplicate ended in a nebula. Zora's sentience emerges and interprets their mission to protect the sphere data as holding its position in time and space.
Anything else would inevitably feel contrived.
- Hull reverted for some kind of temporal or espionage mission;
- Some kind of duplicate that didn't go to the future, but remained hidden to protect it;
- Zora feeling threatened by Starfleet's concern for her growing sentience (or is ordered by Burnham, to go rogue and send itself somewhere safe) The crew then have to be given a new ship (or that is the end of the show?)
It's all contrived.
Sure, but I mean it would have been written explicitly to try to keep Calypso as canon, rather than a planned story progression from the outset, with the natural beats and moments that come from well planned story writing.
I'm sure I'll regret this, but how so?
Calypso is canon, but may not be in this specific continuity.
Or, it's just further in the future
Mostly about the fact the ship and sets have their season 1/2 designs, the hull markings have no A, the older shuttles are used etc.
The ship being sent further into the future is possible, and is one of my thoughts for how it could be explained. The look of the ship's hull however, would require a contrived explanation though
In fact, they could end the show with Zora being under threat, and ordered to travel and hide, and stay safe. And just never explain the non 32nd Century hull design, and leave it at that.
It really wouldn't. It's a new paint job.The look of the ship's hull however, would require a contrived explanation though
You mean an old paint job LOLIt really wouldn't. It's a new paint job.
Of course you can take it all too seriously, so its just a fun discussion.
If I can paint my house the original color in a matter of weeks an old color on a starship should be like changing clothes. I would think at least.
And changing the appearance of a ship with significant portions made up of something called “programmable matter” seems easy, it feels like it would be particularly suitable for adaptations.
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