[Shazam]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

Whatever that "The Burn" bull#### that happened in Discovery actually happens now in the 25th century.

Regular warp travel by dilithium is no-longer possible but it is discovered that the Pah-Wraiths hail from another dimensional aspect of the wormhole called "The Warp" full of psychic energies and malevolent beings.

With no choice, mankind turns to using the The Warp for intergalactic travel but without a beacon to guide navigation through the warp, countless ships are lost in that hellish dimension.

Finally, a solution is discovered. Positronic Picard is stuffed into the base of his Enterprise D command chair and behold! The chair is now the Golden Throne. Upon it sits the withering corpse of Jack Crusher, God Emperor of Mankind - who's psychic beam serves as the lighthouse beacon for the galaxy.

The price? Troi is artificially cloned to produce thousands of empath children which are continously bred to be fed to God Emperor Jack to maintain his psychic powers to maintain earth's hegemony across the universe.

However this season turns out, it will be worse than what you wrote.