Spoilers A big hint about the finale/season 3 has dropped...

[Ralphis]

I realize all the clues and indications point to a time jump to the 28th Century, and that'll probably be what it is. BUT... I still half expect the jump to only be as far as, oh, say, 2399... give or take. Not directly linking it to the Picard show, but syncing up all the All Access shows to the same time period.

 

[JoeZhang]

I realize all the clues and indications point to a time jump to the 28th Century, and that'll probably be what it is. BUT... I still half expect the jump to only be as far as, oh, say, 2399... give or take. Not directly linking it to the Picard show, but syncing up all the All Access shows to the same time period.

I doubt it - Netflix has first dibs on any shows that are seen as linked to Discovery so they plan to keep the Picard show completely separately because it allows them to shop the rights around (although that doesn't mean it might not still end up on netflix).

 

[fireproof78]

Why no Gorn?

Nobody likes the Gorn.

 

[BillJ]

Nobody likes the Gorn.

They never bring the good snacks.

 

[XCV330]

Nobody likes the Gorn.

but they are mercyfull and quick

 

[fireproof78]

but they are mercyfull and quick

Given their lumbering walk in some instances I don't know about the quick part

 

[Agony_Boothb]

Nobody likes the Gorn.

That's racist

 

[fireproof78]

That's racist

I don't hate them. I just don't like them. I'm indifferent towards them.

 

[Agony_Boothb]

I don't hate them. I just don't like them. I'm indifferent towards them.

Helen Keller once said: 'Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings....towards Gorn”

Keller 100% said that. Big Trek fan. Loved watching it. Loved listening to it even more.

 

[Kemaiku]

That's racist

Specist.

 

[Agony_Boothb]

Specist.

tomayto, tomahto

 

[Kemaiku]

tomayto, tomahto

Red, green or yellow?

 

[fireproof78]

Red, green or yellow?

There's a red Gorn? Ok, I'm back on board.

 

[Kemaiku]

There's a red Gorn? Ok, I'm back on board.

Fire Gorn, Grass Gorn and Water Gorn?

 

[Krog]

I hope they get and stay into the future. Otherwise yesterday’s episode would be a total waste of time. I also hope they won’t just send them over there and close the season without any hint on what’s to come.

 

[Spider]

Fire Gorn, Grass Gorn and Water Gorn?

Fried Gorn. With pasta.

 

[Rahul]

I'll take a stab at why the mycelial network bugs many folks more than warp drive or transporters: it's everywhere. I'm not saying this is actually a problem, just a hunch about how people feel about things, connotation vs denotation and all that jazz.

Warp and transporters (and Q and bunches of other tech/wizardry in Trek) can go perhaps anywhere or do crazy things, but warp requires a crystal and some engines and a mechanic, things people can wrap their minds around. It's an engine that works (practically dramatically speaking) like any engine they comprehend, but... faster. Transporters get you from one place to another, and people get being in one place and then being in another and we try not to think too hard about becoming data-streams or code or if we would be clones at the other site, but really what we are thinking about is being in place A and then being in place B.

Yes. It's coarse, and rough, and irritating, and it gets everywhere.

The spore drive, if it was just about using magic mushrooms in a special engine, I think people be like "what? oh, sure, like crystals in the other engine, like we use gas or something. Many of us fundamentally don't know how engines work so just putting something in that makes it go or mediates something that makes it go or somesuch, sure, I get that".

But it's not just putting spores into an engine. It's a special connected network that exists everywhere and ties the universe together, not an energetic force like gravity or a mystical force like The Force (old school SW), but more like The Force (new school SW midichlorian style). Something of substance that is everywhere.

I think THIS PART RIGHT HERE hits the nail on it's head!

I have no problem with a magic superdrive that instantly jumps anywhere in Trek (well, maybe a bit for canon issues. But not really, if it's dealt with in the long run)

What irritates the heck outta' me is "we have that magic, galaxy spanning-mushroom, that's somehow alive, even though it has no soil and would need to eat the entire universe for it's energy consumption. But it's roots are everywhere, on every single inch of space and time through the entire multiverse. And - listen to that - we can SLIDE on it's roots! To everywhere! Isn't that cool, dude? Don't you wanna' travel on 'shrooms as well?"

 

[drt]

but they are mercyfull and quick

I like your use of "mercyfull" since that is more how the Gorn captain pronounced it.

 

[SolarisOne]

This thread has really devolved since the last time I was here.

 

[Kemaiku]

This thread has really devolved since the last time I was here.

We rubbed the wrong Time Crystal.