10 Star Trek Events OTOY & The Roddenberry Archive Should Explore Next

6. The Impact Of The Burn

While our feelings on the Burn were cool to begin with, there is a wealth of storytelling available thanks to its explosive impact. Star Trek: Starfleet Academy will feature at least two characters who may have personally witnessed the Burn, but we the audience have currently only seen things one hundred years on from the event.

We now know the cause of the Burn, but what of the short term impact? OTOY and The Roddenberry Archive, with access to the models of every ship available to them, could easily depict not only the explosions, but the aftermath and domino effect across the surviving fleets. 

What of the Klingons? What of the Ni'var? What of the Breen? How were these empires, alliances, and conglomerations affected by the Burn? We must acknowledge the difficulty of handling this in a short film, but therein lies the challenge. Rather than focussing on the destruction wrought by Sukal's (admittedly accidental) outburst, what of the survivors? What of the planets suddenly cut off from interstellar travel, at least at warp speed?