"Displacement-activated Spore Hub" Drive

[Angry Fanboy]

I hear the characters refer to the Discovery's spore-drive technology by its "full name" a few times during the series - most recently when Burnham explains to Emperor Georgiou the means by which the Discovery arrived in the Mirror Universe.

Does anyone else think "Displacement-activated Spore Hub" (DASH) drive sounds like a backronym that the writers came up with originally but doesn't appear to have caught on? Possibly intended for use as a shorthand term allowing the ship to "dash" from place to place in the same way characters "warp" the ship from place to place?

Just a thought... :-)

 

[F. King Daniel]

That's my thought too, but then they had Lorca sabotage it by sarcastically calling it the "spore drive" early on and everyone called it that afterwards. So they did it to themselves.

Or maybe TPTB requested a "cool" name for it so they put one in and deliberately almost never used it.

 

[Cyrus]

Dash drive. I like it.

 

[Mirror Mirror]

DASH drive dose have a better sound to it than "Spore drive"

 

[Hythlodeus]

To quote the great Philip J. Coulson: "We're working on it!"

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Spore Hub Rapid Outer-space Omnidirectional Mobility System (S.H.R.O.O.M.S.) was already taken.

 

[Tuskin38]

Spore Hub Rapid Outer-space Omnidirectional Mobility System (S.H.R.O.O.M.S.) was already taken.

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