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Star Trek has always reflected

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the world that we live in.

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What better way to portray
that than via the state

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of the Federation in the future?

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Mr. Bryce, hail Federation headquarters,

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and tell them the U.S.S.
Discovery is reporting for duty.

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We find that we have
a place to belong now.

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And with that, comes Admiral Vance,

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played by the delicious
Oded Fehr, he's wonderful.

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Charles Vance,
Commander-in-chief, Starfleet.

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We put Vance in a very difficult position

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right from the beginning.

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He has to be cautious because
he is in charge of holding

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what's left of the Federation together.

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And if he makes the wrong call,

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everything could get
worse than it already is.

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And he can't risk that.

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Our intelligence says

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that Discovery was destroyed in 2258,

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with no mention of a
displacement-activated spore drive.

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So, two truths now exist in one space.

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That never goes well.

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We are surprised to find

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that the Federation has shrunk a bit.

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I am curious as to what remains

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of the rest of the Federation.

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38 member worlds that we're aware of,

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down from 350 at its peak.

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They find themselves victims of the Burn,

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and find themselves
disconnected from each other,

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from other planets,
and from other species.

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There may be others, but
since the subspace relays

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went down, we're having
difficulty finding each other.

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They couldn't help them

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in the way that the
Federation wants to do.

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Not because they didn't want to go

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and help their member worlds,

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but because they simply couldn't.

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They were just simply unable

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to get where they needed to get.

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One fact is unassailable,

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we have a spore drive and it works.

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We can travel anywhere
in the blink of an eye.

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And we wanna help.

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For our heroes to be able to
go anywhere and do anything,

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it gives them immediately an
ability to serve Starfleet

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and the Federation in the
way that they want to,

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and in the way that they
sacrificed everything to come

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forward in time to be able to do.

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Admiral, I would ask that you allow

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Discovery to serve as she is able.

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It and Commander Burnham
are ideally suited

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for this kind of away mission.

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Having the spore drive,
we then get to kind of

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be a conduit to helping
make some things happen

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that couldn't happen because
they couldn't get places,

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and we can get places in an instant.

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Let's show them who we are.

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By the end of the episode,
Vance recognizes that

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and is willing to put them to work.

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The spore drive made Discovery
unique 930 years ago,

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and it makes it unique even now.

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In fact, it's even more important now

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than it ever was before,
because dilithium is gone.

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When Discovery shows up, we are a reminder

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of what the Federation was in the past.

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Discovery is a beacon of hope
of what we can become again.

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Captain, Commander, welcome home.