....but won't, because nobody dares to #risk anymore. Paramount Skydance Instead, they just hide behind #rules and #lawyers. Anyway, our #magic word is...
Rassilon
Mad and arrogant, #Rassilon is the former #president of a lovely planet called #Gallifrey. BBC Studios (Lawyers
throwing a fit yet?) Long story short his people - the #TimeLords -
realized just how much of a jerk he was and were fine with it when one
of their heroes - the #doctor - exiled him. Unfortunately for him, when
Razzie got boot, his universe was pretty close to dying of old age...
The Plot (How Rassilon could be used exercise Kurtzman Trek from history)
...So #Razzie decides to move to another universe. Which happens
to be the #Trek universe. But there is one major hiccup. Time Lords get
around in TARDIS'es. Which draw power from the universe they call home.
Taking them to another universe. Well, it's like putting #gasoline in a
#diesel engine. Fortunately for Razzie, he has access to every log of
every #TARDIS, including our favorite #Type 40, belonging to the Doctor.
In the "Rise of the Cybermen/Age of Steel." Two-part (#DoctorWho)
episode, the TARDIS crashes in an alternate universe. But it survives
because of a tiny, crystalline power cell. Which Razzie plucks from the
logs and decides to scale up to 12. How? He arrives in the distant past,
where he messed with the geology of the planet #Boreth. Specifically,
the planet's supply of dilithium crystal. Thus explaining how the Time
Crystals that are key to Star Trek Discovery came about.
Crucial about these Time Crystals is that you need a SUPERNOVA to
charge them. And the Time Lords have the means to cause these. A device
called the Hand of Omega allows them to remotely mess with stars. It has
even been seen causing a #supernova in the DW Serial "Remembrance of
the #Daleks." (Unlimited rice pudding, etc, etc.) Rassilon causes the
supernova that wiped out the Tkon Empire, charging his TARDIS with
enough power to travel to the 32rd century.
This, however, brings him face-to-face with a new problem.
Starfleet and their allies are guarding this part of the timeline. And
Rassilon, wanting to be the supreme ruler of time, feels he needs to get
rid of them. And he knows a thing or two about messing with genetics.
Back in the early days of Gallifrey, Rassilon created a gene
(sequence) called the Rassilon Imprimatur. It binds a Time Lord to their
TARDIS and keeps them from being torn apart on the molecular level when
they activate the engines.
Using his knowledge of genetics and eugenics, Rassilon brings
about The Burn. It's no longer some half-baked coincidence, it's a
deliberate, well thought out plan by a supervillain. Except said
supervillain didn't do his homework. The Romulans use black holes to
power their ships and zero dilithium. He has now created a timeline
where the Romulans reign supreme. And to make this worse, his TARDIS
needs to recharge.
So he travels back to the 24th century, where he causes the
#Romulan Supernova, killing two birds with one stone. He takes the
Romulans out of the picture and recharges his ride. Now all he has to
do, is whisper the right things into the right ears, causing the Time
Wars. Being a survivor of the Last Great Time War, he can do this as
easily as you and I put on #socks.
The major powers - including the Federation - then do exactly what
he wants them to do. They outlaw time travel altogether. Leaving
Rassilon free and clear to mess with the timeline at his leisure.
How to do the #Reset ?
The Doctor figures out what Razzie has done. Because his TARDIS
doesn't function in the Trek , he has to join up with a Starfleet crew
to stop the former president. They succeed in arresting Rassilon in the
32rd century. Thus starting the chain of events unraveling and the
timeline going back to normal.
After a quick pit-stop in the 22nd century to sabotage the
creation of Control AI program, our heroes travel to the ancient past.
They restore Boreth's geology to normal, removing the time crystals from
the timeline. No Red Angel suit, Micheal Burnham's parents aren't
killed, so she never gets adopted....
The only thing they can't fix is the Tkon supernova, which turns
out be a fixed point. When the timeline finishes correcting itself, 99.9
percent of the #SecretHideout era has been retconned out of existence.
The remaining 0.1 percent being the ship that the Doctor has used
throughout. So, which ship would I give the role?
The USS Prodigy.
Her crew having experience with time travel and then some. And by using
one of the animated ships, you don't have to build sets or make props.
It's a way to do the whole thing on the cheap. Plus, her Protostar drive
is a build-in McGuffin that the Doctor would have no problem modifying
into a time drive to allow for the necessary time hopping.
(And could no doubt could be used as an explanation for my the Prodigy itself
wasn't deleted when the timeline reset. Because if that happens, we
wouldn't get a clean reset, but all sort of timey-wimey fluxing
nonsense.)
The Doctor takes Razzie and goes back to his home universe, where the crazy president becomes another writer's room's headache.
And thus ends my pitch on how to clean up the mess that is
Kurtzman Trek quickly, quietly and cleanly. Of course, it'll never
happen because #lawyers.
