No need to get rid of it until the very end of the series' run. Why take away something that makes Discovery unique among Trek series'? There's so much more mileage to get out of a drive that can take them anywhere and anywhen in the multiverse.
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I agree. At this point, getting rid of the spore drive would be like having Voyager return home at the end of season 5.
I'm not convinced they have the creative chops to make good use of the Spore Drive as anything other than an expressway to the next canon crisis.
Requiem for Methuselah did establish that the main view screen is also a window when Kirk looked through it and saw the crew frozen in place on the bridge.Knowing them it will be far too big, have a window for a viewscreen and too dark.
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Requiem for Methuselah did establish that the main view screen is also a window when Kirk looked through it and saw the crew frozen in place on the bridge.
As did the original shooting model for the Cage, as I recall...
Why shouldn't they want to use it for its most fun purpose?
The rumoured character breakdown includes an EMH. Unless he has a mobile emitter, that almost certainly implies there's a ship involved.
Because canon.
They can redress it for other starships
Hmmm.... Maybe we heard it wrong and the next series is a "Picardo" series.
In the novelverse, portable emitters were becoming a thing (albeit briefcase-sized) before Nemesis.
Requiem for Methuselah did establish that the main view screen is also a window when Kirk looked through it and saw the crew frozen in place on the bridge.
To be exact, Kirk peers in through the top, looking down, which results in his face being seen from the front on the main viewer. So actually the episode directly establishes that the main viewer is not a window. Or at least that it's not a conveniently placed window that Kirk would choose to make use of...
Which is sort of consistent with the fact that the particular desktop model used on that particular, well, desktop lacked any hint of a window in front of the bridge.
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To me (at least) the implication was that Kirk was looking through the "window" and into the bridge where he saw the crew frozen.
Having said that, I do admit that Shatner the actor wasn't specifically looking that direction, nor did the model have a visible window there, nor was the view we saw of the suspended-in-place bridge crew the view Kirk would have seen from the viewscreen window....
...But I still contend that it was the writer's and/or director's intention that he was looking in through the viewscreen window.
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The Red Angel's time shenanigans will completely break the Prime timeline. As a result, Section 31 ends up stealing the Enterprise and using her for their nefarious deeds. MU Georgiou's show is on our beloved Enterprise.Perhaps, but MU Georgieu is going to be around in Season-3, so I guess the S-31 bridge may still be needed for a few more months anyway.
:cough: Stargate :cough:
I remember one of the last DS9 novels Morn was arrested for violating temporal law by developing a portable emitter for Vic Fontaine.
How does that violate a temporal law? Or any law for that matter.
He probably only did it with inspiration (and maybe even technical information) from The Doctor's holoemitter. So it would be temporal contraband. Still doesn't make much sense, since The Doctor's holoemitter should *also* be temporal contraband. But maybe him having it is a predestination paradox? Either way, I imagine the agents stopped by to have a little talk with The Doctor about being more careful with it, too.
...But I still contend that it was the writer's and/or director's intention that he was looking in through the viewscreen window.
Yup. Although if we decide to ditch the intention, we get to the interesting issue of whether Flint actually shrunk or captured the ship at all...
I mean, making a starship seemingly disappear from orbit and remain unable to communicate with anybody for an extended period of time is considered a cheap parlor trick in TNG "Devil's Due". If Flint did that, and additionally had a hologram of the "shrunken" ship displayed on top of his desk, the effect might be devastating on Kirk since it did fool Picard a century later still. The "frozen", "miniature" crew then might be part of the simulation, or part of Kirk's imagination, or whatnot.
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