[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Just have a mysterious something wipe out the entire crew in S4E1, and the rest of the episode just be glory shots of Discovery floating empty through space ala Star Trek, The Motion Picture. Just, like, 55 minutes of that. Then end the episode with a ship finding the Discovery, and boarding it. Voila, a "Great Reset", if you will. Then they can start over with a new crew set in the future.

I'd like to see that.

It could be

Spoiler!

We see a shattered Discovery tumbling in space, a Federation star ship in the distance. A shuttle slowly docks with the discovery.

Interior Discovery.
Lots of wreckage floating around. We see two Star Fleet security officers in space suits. They begin walking through the ship.

Security Officer 1 - "There's a lot of damage here sir, what do you think happened?"

The second security officer smartly whips out his tricorder and begins to scan"

Security Officer 2 - "Unknown, but I'm reading a elevated realization of bad decisions"

they come around the corner and see two bodies slumped against the wall. One Crewman's head is missing, his name tag reads Kurtzman. The other one appears to be battered, his name tag reads Fuller. SO2 scans the bodies.

SO1 - "Oh my god where's his head?"
SO2 - Found it, scans indicated that his head is firmly lodged in his lower intestine. This other one seems to have died by stupidly jamming a fork into a power conduit"

They wander on taking scans. They come around to a sad scene of a pretty crew member floating in the zero gravity. Her name tag reads Detmer

SO1 - "Here's another one sir we should . . . "
SO2 - "Leave it, nobody cares"
SO1 - "But sir, we should learn how she died"
SO2 - "It doesn't matter, forget her and move on"

They eventually arrive at the bridge, which is completely destroyed. There's a Red Headed Ensign, her finger fimly mashed on a red button, meanwhile, the Captain is still in the Captains chair, her head has been blown apart.

SO1 - "Wow this is brutal"
SO2 scans the captain's shattered head.

SO2- "reading eleveted levels of the ego hormone, as well her self righteousnous is off of the charts. Clearly it caused her head to explode, lets take a look at the final log"

The log comes up, we see the crew gathered in the middle of the bridge having a conversation. Clearly they are giving the Captain options and she is over ruling them and stating her ideas are better. The audio picks up.

Tilly- "This is bad, what if we do some science thing to boast the shields"
Burnham - "No we're going to do my convoluted plan. I just want to tell you all how much I love you"

SO2 - Fast forwards through 5 minutes of inane conversation while the ship shudders and explodes around them. We hear another voice"

Voice - "We are the Borg, we have scanned your vessel and after listening to you, we have decided that we really don't want to add your distinctiveness to our collective, have a nice day"

We hear Tilly's voice

Tilly - "Hey what does this F'n button do"

She mashes her finger on the button and the hologram breaks up.

SO1- "Horrifying"
SO2 - "Lets plant some charges and blow this ship to hell so the stupidity virus that infected them doesn't effect us"
SO1- "Promise me you'll shoot me if I start showing symptoms"