Discovery is Who's Holodeck Fantasy?

[Tom]

So when we get to the end of the Discovery series we learn it was just a Holodeck fantasy (I mean come on... Spore drives? this shit cant be real LOL) , just like 'Enterprise' was Riker's Holodeck fantasy . Question is, who's fantasy adventure story is it? Myself, I suspect that Barclay may have helped to write it, but it is not his program. Could be anyone from TNG, DS9 or Voy.

 

[ISS-Magnum]

Obviously, it's not Tom Paris -- he is into 1930s pulp fiction.

 

[Jadeb]

Tilly

 

[F. King Daniel]

Kelvin Universe Spock, imagining a weird dark elseworld where he had a human sister.

Who else would come up with something like that??

 

[Tom]

Tilly

I suspect she maybe a character in some 'other' holodeck programs as well...

 

[Prax]

obviously this guy

 

[saladdays]

obviously this guy

You sure not this guy instead?

 

[Tim Thomason]

Movie-era Jim Kirk:
- set in the period of his youth, so there's some nostalgia at play
- Klingons are irredeemable warmongering monsters, as Kirk saw them after the death of his son.
- I'm not sure why he made a near-perfect human female version of Spock, but the heart wants what the heart wants

 

[Krandor]

Quark.... "Come to Quarks for some spore mushrooms right out of the discovery holodeck program"

 

[Tomalak]

It feels like a Bashir thing, but maybe the MU angle would be a bit close to home after Crossover.

 

[O_Kav]

Spore drives? this shit cant be real LOL

Because the Warp Drive is suuuper believable, right ?

Answering your question: If we had to get an atrocity like "These Are the Voyages..." with the Discovery instead of the NX, the replacement for Riker would probably be B'Elanna or any other radical element of the Maquis when they were forced to live onboard the Voyager. They probably wondered a lot if it was worthwhile inciting a mutiny against Janeway, asking directly a simulacrum of the first Starfleet mutineer kinda makes sense.

 

[Longinus]

Because the Warp Drive is suuuper believable, right ?

I don't think your link proves what you think it does. The mere fact that real space organisations are even trying to get it to work (even if it yet doesn't, and maybe never will) already makes it several magnitudes more believable than the spore drive.

 

[jaime]

Obviously, it's not Tom Paris -- he is into 1930s pulp fiction.

Just the MU is his bit then.

 

[Jadeb]

As an aside, China claims to have built a functioning EM drive.

Some more on the matter: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/...e-nasa-impossible-propulsion-system-explained

 

[seigezunt]

Kirk. He has studied the career and speeches of Captain Saru and idolizes him. He is inspired by Saru's not believing in the no-win scenario.

 

[Krandor]

Kirk. He has studied the career and speeches of Captain Saru and idolizes him. He is inspired by Saru's not believing in the no-win scenario.

Ah ha! So Saru is really Garth

 

[Turtletrekker]

Yours.

 

[CaptainMurdock]

It's not a holodeck fantasy. It's a mushroom hallucination Sarek had after eating some Orion Pizza.

 

[Lord Garth]

Discovery is the Final Fantasy.

 

[SolarisOne]

Who's? I didn't know the Doctor cared about Star Trek so much.

Because the Warp Drive is suuuper believable, right ?

Okay. Let's be clear: Star Trek's version of warp drive isn't believable to anyone with real physics knowledge. Said drive is based on manipulating subspace. We don't have anything with the same properties as subspace in the real world. Modified versions of Alcubierre's original warp metric (such as the Van Den Broeck metric) are faaaaaaaaaaaaar moreso, however.

Light-speed and subluminal versions of those are even plausible for some "sufficiently advanced civilization" (with the added benefit of not violating causality.) They do eliminate time dilation effects, though. So you age just as much as the people back home, since you're always at rest relative to the space inside the bubble. Superluminal versions, on the other hand, have built-in problems seemingly tailor-made to keep one from violating causality. c isn't to be trifled with, it seems, because it's not the speed of light so much as it's the speed of causality. Light just happens to be one of the interactions that travels at that speed. So, however, does gravitation.