Pog is a former Borg drone
This would easily and instantly explain...- His cyborg arm
- How a Tellarite wound up in the Delta Quadrant
- His technological expertise
- Why he's so cynical about life outside the mining facility
- Why he's so insistent on being contrarian (the Borg collective operates on consensus)
- Why he often speaks as a Third-Person Person - months, maybe even years of being referred to by a designation like 'second of ten' will make him all the more determined to go by his own name.
- Jossed. He didn't even recognise the Borg in "Let Sleeping Borg Lie"
- In "Preludes" we discover that he spent a long time on a pre-Federation sleeper ship as the only awakened member of the crew, working to repair the ship with the assistance of a robot that would only respond if he identified himself by name first, hence the Verbal Tic.
Some or all of the Alpha Quadrant species seen are victims of the Caretaker
The Caretaker took many ships before Voyager. This would explain how a Caitian, a Lurian, and a Tellarite (if the Borg aren't responsible for his situation) ended up in the Delta Quadrant.- Jossed for the main crew, at least.
The Protostar went back in time
The USS Protostar had an accident with its transwarp drive and went several hundred or thousands of years back in time. This is how it ended up deep in a mine, and how the Diviner seems to have spent a long time looking for it despite the fact that it couldn't have been launched more than five or so years ago.- The Alpha Quadrant species encountered are descendants of the Protostar's original crew, and the Diviner is collecting them for some reason.
- Jossed. Time shenanigans abound, but not in that direction.
The Protostar went forward in time
Into the Discovery season three era, when the Federation had long since collapsed.- Alternatively, it might have taken The Slow Path while lying derelict for centuries.
- Seemingly Jossed: The official word is that Prodigy is set in 2383, and to have Janeway's holo-image, programmed with the recordings and logs of Captain Janeway herself, the Protostar would have to have launched no earlier than 2378.
- Played with. It was launched in the present, sent to the future, then went back much further into the past.
Ideas on what Murf is:
- Murf is a cosmic amoeba
- He's a juvenile version of the giant amoeba from "The Immunity Syndrome".
- Murf is a Denebian slime devil
- Old non-canon references say that Denebian slime devils are carnivorous and will eat anything. Murf, as a juvenile, would not necessarily gravitate towards eating people, but he sure will eat anything that catches his attention.
- Murf is a baby Nacene
- Murf is a Caretaker; probably the offspring of Suspiria.
- Murf is a Changeling
- He is one of the 100 sent into the galaxy by the Great Link. Without having been trained by Dr. Mora he has only learned to take a blob like form on his own.
- Murf is a member of the race who created Armus
- In "Skin of Evil," the gelatinous Armus claims that he is an embodiment of evil sloughed off by an ancient race of Titans who are now appear beautiful to all who see him. Murf is awfully cute...
- All of the above have been Jossed. Episode 11 reveals that Murf is a Mellanoid slime worm.
The Federation is/will be actively looking for the Protostar
Considering it’s an experimental federation ship that is lost in the Delta quadrant, it would make sense that they would be looking for it.- Confirmed. Janeway is, if only because of Chakotay.
Dreadnok's design was inspired by Star Trek: Elite Force concept art
Specifically this
. Hologram Janeway is completely aware that the kids aren't cadets.
If she has the ability to access the ship's logs from the escape before her initialization, she'd probably know exactly how they ended up on the Protostar, and what they're escaping, but she'd also know that confronting them about it at that point might have had really bad results.- Jossed. As of “Time Amok”, she learns this for the first time.
The Protostar has a Spore Drive
It's the third reactor between the warp cores. It malfunctioned and teleported the Protostar to the Delta Quadrant, and Janeway can't tell the crew about it because it's still highly classified and they're just cadets.- Jossed. It's a new form of warp drive that utilizes a small protostar.
The plant creature is the reason why the Hirogen abandoned their homeworld
In "Prey," the Hirogen are described as being nomadic, without any indication of a homeworld. In "Dreamcatcher," the kids visit an otherwise uninhabited M-class planet in the Hirogen system with only the plant creature living there. Presumably, the Hirogen brought a sample of this creature to their homeworld as a trophy and it got loose, spreading as an invasive organism with no natural predators. The Diviner is a former officer from the U.S.S. Protostar
This would explain how he knows so much about it and why he considers it to be his ship. If he is a former Starfleet officer who was court-martialed or resigned in disgrace that would also explain how he knows about the Federation and wants to keep his daughter ignorant of it.- The Diviner is actually Chakotay. He views the ship as 'his' (the way a captain would), and Drednok had Chakotay's access codes (which he probably got from the Diviner.)
- Jossed. Separate people.
Drednok will pull a Dragon Ascendant, if he's not already a Dragon-in-Chief
- Drednok argued with the Diviner about creating a progeny (Gwyn) in the flashback during "Kobayashi," rather than just accepting his word as he "defied the Order," and has proven to be a more direct threat to the crew, on top of seeing him having been on the other side of the doors of the bridge of the Protostar in the hologram of Captain Chakotay. The Diviner has Gwyn as something of a Morality Pet, while Drednok has no such redeeming qualities. If the Diviner pulls a Heel–Face Turn, or just shows a little too much compassion towards the characters, it doesn't seem unlikely that Drednok will remove the Diviner from the equation entirely, if it seems to suit the needs of the situation.
- Unlikely now, given Drednok's apparant destruction in "A Moral Star, Part 2", but "Masquerade" reveals the existence of a second Drenok, loyal to another Vau N'Akat known as The Vindicator.
The Protostar is a Flawed Prototype.
Since the Protostar-class wasn't apparently built as a replacement for Dilithium-based engines after the Burn, it's likely that it was determined to be too dangerous or unfeasible and scrapped. The 607125.6 stardate in "Time Amok" is not a mistake.
While it has (supposedly) been attributed to an error by Janeway because of the anomaly or a simple typo in the script (meaning that it should've been 60712.56), it's worth noting that she said that in her log before it hit. This would set the series far in the future (but still before season three of Discovery), The Diviner, Drednok and Gwyn are all much older than they look and the Protostar has been derelict for centuries until it was accidentally found by Dal and Rok-Tahk. And if this is after the Burn, then there's no Federation left on Earth for them to go to.- According to Word of God, the incorrect stardate actually is a sign that Janeway's holo-matrix is being affected by the anomaly before it hits the Protostar.
- Notably, 60712.56 fits accordingly for the series taking place in 2383, while 607125.6 would set it in 2930 (139 years before the Burn), with both dates determined using the Stardate Calculator.
- "A Moral Star, Part 2" makes it clear that it was in fact an error, with Janeway giving a stardate of 61103.1 as well as the real Janeway making an appearance, so the series is not set in the far future.
The Federation allowed the Vau N'Akat to die out.
- The Diviner seems to have a personal grudge against the Federation, calling them hypocrites. He hates them because they could have saved his people, but the Prime Directive prevented them from doing so.
- Confirmed, sorta. Civil war can be blamed for that one.
The Vau N'Akat are in a similar situation to the Achuultani.
Gwyn is a clone of the Diviner. Likewise, the Diviner was also a clone of his parent, Vau N'Akat haven't reproduced naturally for god knows how long. At one point their ancestors created and lost control of Drednok. Drednok's still hardwired to obey and protect Vau N'Akat, but his programming will accept having just one Vau N'Akat left at a time and making himself totally indispensable. Chakotay saved/hid his crew from the diviner by making them into one being use the Tuvix method
Specifically Dal- Jossed:. Dal was created by geneticists carrying on the work of Arik Soong.
Janeway didn't take Voyager, the ship she's most familiar with because it was unavailable
Because Captain Tuvok was tasked elsewhere, and couldn't put his mission aside when Janeway's SAR mission started.- Effectively Jossed by way of Star Trek: Picard - According to a graphic there, after her return from the Delta Quadrant, Voyager was retired from active service. Perhaps it was made into the museum Admiral Janeway said it became in her timeline during Endgame.
The Borg that they encounter in "Let Sleeping Borg Lie"...
Will belong to Agnes Jurati's collective.- Jossed, they seem to be run-of-the-mill Borg, i.e. intent on assimilating everyone and everything.
The Borg cube from "Let Sleeping Borg Lie" will become The Artifact.
- The cube appears to have a similar configuration to The Artifact, minus the substantial pieces that seem to have been lost or removed, it is in the Beta Quadrant, and has been cut off from the rest of the Collective due to some sort of infection.
The only way to stop the Living Construct is to destroy the Protostar
- The Construct's method of attack seems to be infecting and compromising the Starfleet ships, then taking control of them one by one and forcing them to attack each other. It does not appear to be a self-replicating virus, otherwise there would be no need to bring the ships there, since the virus could be spread autonomously. If the Protostar were to be destroyed, taking the Living Construct with it, it would leave the Starfleet ships compromised, but likely salvagable.
- This is at least confirmed enough that it was the only way they could come up with (although they had come up with a different way to destroy the Protostar than normal self-destruct, as its unusual design would make self-destruct way too destructive to do in the middle of a Starfleet fleet).
The bigger Plan
- The bigger plan of Janeway is the Voyager-A.
- Confirmed as of the latest trailer. Also confirmed is that they're investigating the wormhole that leads to future Solum.
Dr. Jago was the scientist who augmented Julian Bashir
Jago is a black market geneticist on Noble Isle who clearly keeps up a successful commercial enterprise in off-the-book genemods, exactly the sort of service Bashir's parents could have contracted on Adigeon Prime when they wanted to 'fix' their son. This is in contrast to other illicit genetic engineers (such as the protégés of Arik Soong) who appear to be in the business For Science! and not profit.