Star Trek Discovery premiered last week.
Discovery takes place ten years before the
original series Kirk/Spock Enterprise.
It's about the USS Discovery as it, ahh, Discovers,
new worlds and life forms, and one Starfleet
officer learning to be part of the crew.
But I think the show may actually be about
something else.
Something, bigger.
Something tied into the Star Trek universe
in more ways than their letting us know just
yet.
Before we go on you should know that this
video contains information about multiple
Star Trek shows, and Star Trek Discovery up
to and including episode 3.
So spoiler warning.
I received no warning.
Which is customary.
You've been warned.
My theory is that Star Trek Discovery is actually
the story of Section 31.
All right so here we go.
I think that Star Trek Discovery is the story
about how Michael Burnham, played by Sonequa
Martin-Green, unknowingly begins her career
in an early, and still developing Section
31.
First you need to know about Section 31.
Section 31 is a secret organization that was
first introduced in Star Trek Deep Space Nine.
It is a legally non-existent, autonomous,
intelligence and defence organization.
It does not follow Starfleet protocols.
It's basically an off the books black ops
intelligence agency.
The implication of their purpose ranges from
sometimes unethical military operations, and
sometimes they're a full illuminati shadow
government that controls everything.
Our official designation is Section 31.
Never heard of it.
We keep a low profile.
And what does Section 31 do?
To give you an idea of what they're like.
At their moral best they're basically like
the Kingsman from Kingsman, and at their moral
worst they're basically like Spectre from
James Bond.
And at their most convoluted they're like
The Patriots from the video game Metal Gear Solid
 
So here's why I think Discovery is Section
31.
They have a lot of similarities.
First, is their love of slimming black uniforms.
You even seen a black badge before?
Somehow this doesn't feel very scientific.
Second is how they recruit new members.
Now, in it's introduction on Deep Space Nine,
Section 31 kidnaps, under false pretences,
and tests Doctor Bashir.
In what turns out to be a recruitment attempt.
It's kinda similar in nature to how Michael
ends up on the Discovery.
An unauthorized, and questionable prisoner
transfer.
I received no warning that I'd be transferred
to another prison facility.
Which is customary.
And my shuttle changed course half way through
the journey.
So you beamed me out of my quarters into this
holosuite when I was asleep?
I believe we allowed you a full hour.
And hidden in there is physical and mental
testing disguised with real life scenarios.
hen they cap that off with a recruitment attempt.
Pretty similar scenarios, but the big difference
is that Michael accepted, and Bashir...
Bashir did not.
In episode 3 of Discovery Michael Burnham
expresses concerns that the USS Discovery is
experimenting with biological weapons, that
break the conventions of 2155.
You're developing some kind of experimental
technology.
some kind of spore based biological weapon.
The kind of weapon that is explicitly forbidden
by the Geneve protocols of 1928 and 2155.
Now this is an important Star date for Star
Trek Enterprise.
Where we chronologically see the first appearance
of Section 31.
In a pre-Federation United Earth Starfleet.
Re-read the charter, article 14 Section 31.
There are a few lines that make allowances
for bending the rules during times of extraordinary threat.
Along with the Star date her concerns are
important as well.
She is worried about him breaking conventions
to create infectious diseases.
Which is a point of interest because that's
exactly what Section 31 does.
On Deep Space Nine Section 31 is responsible
for creating, the genetic disease to kill
the Changelings.
Section 31 must have created the virus, infected
Odo, and then used him as a carrier.
Rule breaking genetic diseases is... kinda
their thing.
And the USS Discovery is designation NCC-1031.
31! 31!
Now that might be a coincidence and maybe
it's something that the showrunners put in
there just to confuse people like me, and
send me off on the wrong track.
Or maybe it's an indicator of what this show's
about.
Also, there's something about Jason Isaac's
performance as CaptainGabriel Lorca that reminds
me of William Sadler as Section 31 agent Sloan.
Maybe this one is just me but I find it interesting
that instead of Jason Isaac's wonderful natural
speaking voice, which is this...
Whereas with the Trekkies, I've only just
begun to meet them.
He talks like this...
Re-read your file...
Pulled up your court marshal transcripts...
...You're somethin'!
Which makes me feel like he's the great grandfather
of this...
I take it I'm suppose to feel... shocked,
and... humbled by your ingenuity.
Okay so here's where I want to give my subjective
opinion.
And I know this whole video has been subjective
opinion and I may very much be wrong, and
an idiot, but I hope I’m right.
Not just because I like being right, I mean
everybody likes being right, but because I
think it makes Discovery a better show for
so many reasons.
Prequels are typically boring because there
are no stakes, you can’t have a major war,
or world changing events, or meet new species,
or develop new technology, because it would
alter the timeline of the shows that come
after . But if this show is about a secret
shadow agency that exists off the history
books, not only is that a great reveal, and
an exciting show, but it allows it to be a
real show.
You know, one where they explore new species,
new events, new technology, new world changing
moments, and not betray the chronology
that exists after it because all this stuff
is secret.
It's happening off the books and hidden from
society and history.
Plus it would also be a good reason why this
is a Star Trek show that doesn’t feel like
a Star Trek show, it’s darker both visually
and in tone and lacks a certain level of hope
and innocence but that makes a lot of sense
if this is actually a show that will reveal
itself to be about a Star Trek secret society
dark dirty black ops underverse.
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Tribbles.
Before I go, Captain Lorca has a pet Tribble
on his desk.
Like I'm not losing my mind that is a pet
Tribble right?
I don't have anything to say about it but
that's a weird choice.
