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  • And then a man child had a temper tantrum and destroyed galactic civilization single-handedly. Sure. Okay. Have fun with the rest of the show, but that’s where I turn in for the night.

    I felt the same way, at first. Then I realized that we have other things in the Trek canon that asks as much suspension of disbelief:

    • “God” lives at the center of the galaxy and is a right bastard. Also happens to resemble Chuck Heston as Moses.
    • Psychics and psychic abilities are a thing
    • V’ger
    • Q and the continuum
    • Whatever species Guinan is, and their supernatural temporal sensitivity
    • Tachyons and the rest of the fictional subatomic zoo
    • Mirror Universe
    • Time travel, but mostly to whatever year the show was made, and for the occasional Deus Ex Machina device
    • SPACE FUNGUS

    Edit: my head-canon for the weirdness of Disco’s first season is that they really wanted it to be the start of a Kelvin-verse TV reboot, but were coy about it.

    Edit 2: I forgot about the Kardashev Type 3 civilization of robots living just outside our galaxy, that will turn the Milky Way into a lifeless wasteland if anyone so much as prank calls them. But they made their digits really hard, but possible, to find.