The whole thing doesn't make any sense. First they were talking about the seven signals that had appeared, and had a map about their locations. But later they were talking about signals appearing and not knowing when or where it would happen...
There isn't much of a contradiction there - "Brother" already shows how they can eat and have their cake there. The first signals only appear for a brief moment, "just long enough to get a reading on them", and the "map" (mock quotes here - they never call it that!) they get has the apparent accuracy of a couple of thousand lightyears at best. It's a bit like "We got a phonecall that there's a crime about to happen - it might be in Utah or Arizona or thereabouts"...
So when the first "actual" signal "stabilizes long enough" for Pike to get a fix, they head for it, and fail. They do so again in the
Discovery, at which point the signal disappears. We don't learn if the other signals disappeared at that moment, or long before, but they're certainly gone, and every subsequent signal will then "appear". And of course disappear when the heroes get there.
They never mention having a map. They often show an apparent "map", but its red dots are scattered across a wide area. If even one of those dots is Terralysium, then the scale of the map is galactic, and the other four Red Signs so far are not actually shown on that map (since they would only be one overlapping quadruply redundant dot at that scale). So the "map"/Spock's doodle has nothing to do with the actual locations where Red Signs might subsequently appear. Which is fine and well, because nobody ever says it would have!
The only inconsistency is that they still do think there would be seven of the Signs - even though the only reason for thinking that is the "map" that is not a map...
Of course, we still don't know what a Red Sign is. It's not the time-wormhole the Angel arrives through: those are puny affairs, easy to miss, and indeed sometimes downright stealthy so that Mom can spy on Daughter. It must be something specifically generated, and in the terms of the hero timeline, none have been created yet - Burnham will create the first either this week or perhaps next season.
We also see in the trailer the outgoing wormhole-thingy, supposedly. It looks nothing like the thingy that sucked the suitless Momma the last time around, and doesn't have a hint of red to it. It also doesn't look much like the remaining time-mess that sucked in Pike and Tyler and spat out their evolved probe and the adjoining future AI nastiness. Is it something else that our heroes happen to create when attempting to do a timehole?
Timo Saloniemi
