I wouldn't exactly call about 10 years before TOS the "nooks and crannies" of the universe that people haven't fully explored yet. I mean, it is interesting to see a perspective of a different crew at this point in time, but it is still essentially an era we've seen explored.It’s fun to explore nooks and crannies of the universe that people haven’t fully explored yet.
Jumping the story ahead 950 years doesn't make you "completely free of canon" or make it "a whole new universe" (and I wouldn't say creating an alternate timeline does either at least up to a certain degree). You are still tied to the events of the previous series, in the universe that they'd established. Although ironically enough, this is exactly what fans have been saying they should have done in the first place.I also had experience working on the [J.J. Abrams] films where we were stuck with canonical problems. We knew how Kirk had died, and we wondered how we could put him in jeopardy to make it feel real. That’s what led us to go with an alternate timeline [for the Kelvin films]; suddenly we could tell the story in a very unpredictable way.
That’s the same thought process that went into jumping 950 years into the future. We’re now completely free of canon, and we have a whole new universe to explore.
So which is it? Are you "completely free of canon" or do you want to stick to canon by referencing it? It doesn't work both ways.There will be canonical references to everything that has happened in the various shows; we’re not erasing that. But we’re so far past that point that all of that is a very distant memory.
To my understanding, while several Section 31 ships were destroyed, and they killed Leland (which Control had taken control of using nanites).... There were still plenty of Section 31 ships that Control was still in control of. You're telling me killing Leland was all it took to kill Control? That's not how AI programs work when it has copies of itself in various computer systems (ranging from starships to nanites). Not to mention is capable of transmitting itself. This is why it's so difficult to kill an AI, you have to prevent it from being able to back itself up, and destroy every computer it has infected. That's also not how the series presented the problem with Control, with it eventually evolving on its own to destroy all sentient life in the future.All I can tell you is that Control is officially neutralized, but there will be much bigger problems when they get to the other side of that wormhole…
At least they didn't make Control the origins of the Borg... Although this was still a bad choice given the similarities.
A show with an ensemble cast that actually uses all the characters? What a concept. Seriously, most of the characters in Discovery have been little more than glorified extras. I'm mystified that Kurtzman only realized this season they should have been using them.What we discovered is we and the fans delight in stories being told about them. We’re going to be using all of them much, much more. Especially because this crew has forfeited their lives for each other. They’ve jumped 950 years into the future for each other. If we didn’t service them, we’d be doing something very wrong.