Star Trek: Discovery would be wise to bring back the Kelvans

CBR has a suggestion about Star Trek: Discovery that would be interesting.

Star Trek: Discovery has found its legs as a distant-future show. Clear and away from any type of lore that would hamper its storytelling, Discovery is becoming a show whose fanbase is engrossed with its creativity. Discovery is once again exploring this creativity with the space disturbances that are plaguing the galaxy.

In the most recent episode of Discovery, “Stormy Weather”, the revelations that these spatial distortions are coming from beyond the Milky Way galaxy were revealed. Keen Star Trek observers may remember that in the original series, there was in fact one alien race that the crew of the Enterprise met that were from the Andromeda Galaxy; the Kelvans (not Kelvin).

CBR has a theory that the Kalvan’s may be behind the destruction occurring in the universe, as they’re the only alien race that the Star Trek faithful have met so far that aren’t from this galaxy. It’s very possible that the writers have something else in mind but I quite like the idea of it being the Kelvans.

Why Star Trek: Discovery should bring in the Kelvans

Discovery stepped in it hard when they launched the show. They made Michael Burnham Spock’s sister, though we’ve never heard of Spock ever mention her prior in 60 years, they remade the Klingons and shoe-horned in a brand new type of travel that had never been mentioned before.

Most fans agree that the issue wasn’t these ideas necessarily but the implementation of these ideas in a prequel. Now that the show is in the distant future where it has room to explore new ideas, bringing back an alien race that had pretty much been lost to long-time canon is a good idea.

Especially since the Kelvans aren’t as we saw them in the original series. They’re described as being bigger than the Klingons and that could pose a very interesting threat for the Federation to have to deal with. Since they had sent a scouting party to the Milky Way Galaxy in the original series, it makes sense, as CBR suggested, that they may use that encounter to re-think their plans. If they’re thinking about attacking Starfleet and the galaxy, it’s possible they send these destructive dark matter anomalies to soften their potential enemies.

It’d be a heck of a payoff, nearly 60 years in the making, and one that may pique the interest of some fans who have since fallen off of Discovery.