I'm thoroughly surprised by this thread. I clicked on it expecting a shit storm of rage over the way the season ended. Me and the few people IRL I have spoken too thought the way the war ended was laughably awful. Like, I can't understand how anyone thought that was an acceptable plot.
If the federation had kept the detonator and told the Klingons to withdraw or else, then maybe it would have been convincing. But even then, the Klingons were in a position to take out Earth so not really at a disadvantage, and if it had made them back down it would only have lasted until they diffused the bomb on Kronos (whatever), after which they would have returned with a vengeance.
But giving the detonator to the Klingons?! WTF? "we could have blown up your planet but we didn't so please leave us alone" -Fuck off.
Why the hell would the klingons all unite behind the one outcast woman just because the federation gave her the power to blow up a planet? Would they have believed her threat to blow them up? It was such a crap bluff.
And even if the Klingons did go for it, the plot also requires for the federation to rely on this happening before giving up their advantage. How could anyone have believed this would work?
I honestly can't think of a less convincing plot in anything I've ever see, it's just completely stupid.
However, the acceptance in this thread is making me think I'm missing something. Am I?
