Computer, End Program

Please, CBS, Make It So!

The seemingly irretrievable Star Trek Discovery can be saved.

Although the first six episodes of Discovery's new season were already in the can from last time, and will continue the offensive canon-busting stupid timeline, merciful relief is available. Discovery can be saved: the ship and show can be turned in any positive direction. But how to retract the Spore Drive and the historical and technological canon violations that have already happened? You can't un-see them or pretend those episodes, which will be re-run forever, simply didn't happen. It has to be fixed in-universe And the producers have promised that, yes, all that was really in the prime timeline leading to TOS. There is but one solution.

Patrick Stewart Saves The Universe Once More

The new "Picard" series, whatever it's named, can be launched by a crossover episode with Captain Picard in Star Trek Discovery. At some point Picard appears and utter the words, "Computer, End Program!" and the bridge of Discovery will dematerialize.



Captain's personal log, Stardate 47458.1. It will take me some time to absorb the experiences of the last two months, which I have spent immersed in a holodeck simulation. Following William Riker's experience, I asked the computer to generate a historical fiction adventure using elements of the early years of Starfleet just prior to Captain Kirk's assuming command of the Enterprise. I instructed the computer to relax most of the reality constraints, and the result was a mixture of technological anachronisms and pure fiction with historical inspirations. The latest story construction capabilities of the holodeck AI are nothing short of amazing. But now it's time to get back to reality. In a few years I will retire from active duty, but I am confident that there are still many worlds for me to explore. Places where no Picard has gone before!


The Discovery episodes following the reveal may or may not represent a RESET into the real world pre-TOS, or they might continue to represent events that occurred only on the holodeck.


This way, the producers have not been made liars, nothing that we saw ever happened, all is right with the world. Discovery will have "ended" in exactly the same was as the "Enterprise" series, another show that never really happened.



An additional twist could be that anachronisms in (holodeck) Discovery are due to interference by Professor Moriarty!