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Question: Where is it explicitly said that Kirk took command immediately after Pike?

They don't know how Genesis works. Only the crew of Regula 1 did.
Actually, only David knew exactly how to make it work by using a certain amount Proto-Matter in a particular way.
He didn't even share that secret with his mother, never mind the rest of the scientists on the station.
And even if he did share it, Khan killed everybody that might possibly have known, as well as taking all the data from the station's computers.
(which was all destroyed when he detonated the Genesis Torpedo inside of the Reliant)
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Honestly, it just reminds me of the Prophets/Wormhole aliens, who find the linear beings traveling through their domain to be uncomfortable to their existence. Perhaps the spores are sentient in some way.
Well, the spore network does contain the souls of the dead so I expect that to come up in season 2's faith vs. science thingy.
It might be exceeding difficult to create a working spore drive without the genius of Stamets and a navigator like the giant Tardegrade??
I would say Seven of Nine's vast Borg knowledge and 125 years of technological advancement (or stagnantion now that Disco retconned all 24th century tech pre-TOS) would more than make up for it.
 
STO has an earlier incident where T’Kuvma’s sister (House Mo’Kai) raidered the Glenn and manages to steal enough info to make a weapon, but not a jump drive.

That ship had a really bad couple of months.

The first real use of the weapon caused her (and you the player character) to jump around 160 years into the future which got rid of that continuity problem. It was implied her ships crew created it.
 
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Actually, only David knew exactly how to make it work by using a certain amount Proto-Matter in a particular way.
He didn't even share that secret with his mother, never mind the rest of the scientists on the station.
And even if he did share it, Khan killed everybody that might possibly have known, as well as taking all the data from the station's computers.
(which was all destroyed when he detonated the Genesis Torpedo inside of the Reliant)

So the Federation was funding an epic project with zero off-site backups in case of some kind of disaster befell Regula I?
 
Maybe they felt that Genesis was too controversial to spread around. Which turned out to be correct.

The more people know about it, the easier it is to steal.
 
So the Federation was funding an epic project with zero off-site backups in case of some kind of disaster befell Regula I?

A tiny civilian one at the edge of Federation space not far from the Klingons too.

But then Carol's father was probably waiting for it to have military applications before stepping in, pretending to shut it down and having someone weaponise it.
 
A tiny civilian one at the edge of Federation space not far from the Klingons too.

But then Carol's father was probably waiting for it to have military applications before stepping in, pretending to shut it down and having someone weaponise it.
Wrong Marcus ;)
 
But then Carol's father was probably waiting for it to have military applications before stepping in, pretending to shut it down and having someone weaponise it.

Assuming his prime counterpart was anything like the Kelvin-timeline version. Which doesn't have to be true at all.

Alex Marcus was already an adult when the timelines diverged, but it's possible something happened to him in the Kelvin timeline to turn him into the warmongering asshat we saw.

I mean, when Carol confronts her father on the bridge of the Vengeance, she says something along the lines of "what happened to the man who raised me"? So if there's some kind of tragic event that happened in the Kelvin timeline, but not in prime, then normal Alex doesn't have to be anything like his Kelvin counterpart.

Who knows, it may even have something to do with nuCarol joining Starfleet, which Carol Prime presumably never did.
 
Or all the numerous god like being Kirk encountered?

I’m sure Kirk put them into a report for Starfleet Command and for all future captains to see if they ever encounter any god like beings in the future. Which is how Sisko knew about Q based on Picard’s experiences. Which is different from having technical specifications for the spore drive easily accessible in the Starfleet database in case a ship ever gets stranded on the other side of the Galaxy with no quick way to get home.
 
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So the Federation was funding an epic project with zero off-site backups in case of some kind of disaster befell Regula I?
Well the final stages of The Manhattan Project were all carried out in one location with all of the main players in one place.
If their work had caused an accidental catastrophic explosion, there wouldn't have been anybody left to continue.
Nor would any of their final research survived.
It would have been back to almost the basics for the US at that point with a lot of hand wringing about why and how.

Also remember, the Regula Project was developed By Carol & David knowing that "The Military" could subvert their work.
It seemed to me that they were quite adamant about keeping the major portions of it a secret from everybody.
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So TAS is in continuity but VOY isn't? Then where was Michael Burnham during "Yesteryear"?
With Sybok
The story can only end one of two ways. Either they continue to use to spore drive, or they don’t. If this is the “prime” universe, then it’s the latter. But then there better be one hell of a good reason why.
The Borg steal it

Something actually has to go really terribly wrong for everyone that uses it for all unethical and smarter races to not use it either.
It turns them into green fluff living on Tilly's uniform

I mean, when Carol confronts her father on the bridge of the Vengeance, she says something along the lines of "what happened to the man who raised me"?

Or he was always a manipulative bastard to other people, and she just found out. Children find it hard to accept their parents have feet of clay, even when they are as abusive as sin
 
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