In the Star Trek: Discovery season 2 finale, “Such Sweet Sorrow,” it is established that mentioning the USS Discovery, its crew, or its experimental spore drive is considered treason
It is/was a nice way to say “this is why you never heard of this crap before - and never will again (mostly)”
THing about Discovery - there were quite a few good stories/episodes - but the writers seemed to want to be too “clever” for their own good. If they had dumped burnam and just kept Saru the show would have been 1000% better.
Right, but what I’m saying is that — from a storytelling perspective — it wasn’t a nice way to say that, it was in fact a pretty bad way to say that. The whole never speak of it again/treason thing is just like a lazy deus ex machina that lets them reset everything. It’s having your narrative cellular peptide cake with mint frosting and eating it.