What if everything in the Star Trek universe was just one grand holodeck simulation and everything we’ve seen them go through in all the shows, all the movies, all the animations and all the books were just a runaway holodeck program that some junior officer made.
And it turns out the actual Star Trek universe is a lonely empty experience as their ships go wandering around nearby star systems and haven’t met any other species yet. It’s just a boring repetitive experience that leaves everyone feeling a deep sense of Galactic loneliness as it will take them many centuries of exploration before they eventually meet another species … and also a species that is not humanoid or familiar to us at all.
Ah, so “realistic” space travel, where 100 years later, they’re still on their way to the first Star system and the most critical technology is how to pass the time
What if everything in the Star Trek universe was just one grand holodeck simulation and everything we’ve seen them go through in all the shows, all the movies, all the animations and all the books were just a runaway holodeck program that some junior officer made.
And it turns out the actual Star Trek universe is a lonely empty experience as their ships go wandering around nearby star systems and haven’t met any other species yet. It’s just a boring repetitive experience that leaves everyone feeling a deep sense of Galactic loneliness as it will take them many centuries of exploration before they eventually meet another species … and also a species that is not humanoid or familiar to us at all.
Ah, so “realistic” space travel, where 100 years later, they’re still on their way to the first Star system and the most critical technology is how to pass the time
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Ok…wait, hear me out
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what if that’s how Discovery ends?
It wouldn’t be the worst story-ending on the show…