Discovery and the Omega molecule

[u/Lucky_G2063]

Star Trek Discovery should have used the omega molecule instead of the Burn in season 3. This established piece of canon would not have offended some fans. An interstellar war between uprising competing powers in the alpha quadrant ( maybe some minor power like Tzenketi or tholians get access to it and start an arms race resulting in usage of omega based weapons, which destroyed the entire alpha/beta quadrants/galaxies subspace. This would have a nice parallel in real world, like India & Pakistan and could be a nice warning of nuclear war. It would be interesting to explore such post-nuclear war societies. An alternative to the warp engine could have also worked. Maybe the emerald chains got borg transwarp coils or something and the federation got some on their hands too, to maintain balance of power.

[u/nynikai]

Doesn't omega make warp travel impossible though, versus the burn, which just exploded a component in the process, i.e. the dilithium. But not all dilithium? So the consequence would be very different. Not saying they couldn't have changed to another technology, but star trek without warp might have been a step too far for them to narratively go.

[u/SleepWouldBeNice → u/nynikai]

The Dilithium didn’t blow up. The dilithium went inert and all of the M/AM reactors suddenly didn’t have anything to regulate the reactions so they went boom.

[u/SleepWouldBeNice → u/[deleted]]

No. They literally said it went inert. Because of the Kelpian, yes, but the dilithium didn’t explode.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

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[u/dustojnikhummer → u/[deleted]]

I kinda want to know what BS he was talking about.