I like the spore drive, it's no more daffy then any of the other things I've seen done in scifi.
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For me it is a lot like the Dune Universe. Special Navigators (empaths or DNA alterations versus the use of spice), travel without moving (the ship spins uses the mycelial network and appears somewhere else vs the Heighliner folding space at the quantum level).
Picard read about the Bajorans in the fifth grade so they’ve been known of since at least the early 24th century. It’s pretty reasonable that they were known back in the mid 23rd century.
I like the spore drive. I just think it needed to me more limited.
Nah, I like it fine just the way it is... We just need Tilly to hurry the heck up with her idea of replacing the need for an organic navigator.
To each their own. I don't mind it for exploring different aspects of travel but if there are not limits then it's hard to know what it can't do. It becomes the same problem as pretty much every other magical tech-it should be solving everything and when it doesn't it stands out.
OK but what limits should they put on it?
Hey here's an idea writers plug Tilly into the spore drive
Distance or number of trips, or possibly a physical/mental cost to the navigator. Or, more interesting, having to negotiate with the beings in the network to travel. Some sort of cost for being able to use the drive.
There are a lot of different ways to take this drive, especially as a whole other dimension.
Plus Tilly knows one of the spore things on a personal level... Maybe she's become a legend among them after 900 years.
Yes that's why they should experiment and plug her into the drive, if they can do it to Stamets why not her?
Hey maybe they can visit 2D space and do an Orville? Michael will save the day /s
Personally, I have a soft spot for scifi ideas that are inspired by neat, real world stuff. When I started watching DISCO, I wasn't familiar with the real world mycelial networks and thought the spore drive was super random. But then I learned about how most plants out in nature communicate with each other and can share resources through massive fungal networks in the soil and suddenly the spore drive is way cooler!
Did you know there is a real life Paul Stamets also named Paul Stamets..... Who is also a mycologist.
https://fungi.com/
True, I think the mycelial network would be a more cohesive idea if it was brought in as an organic information relay spanning the universe instead of a subway, but hey, we got what we got....which has nothing to do with spaceflight or subspace
What about the USS Relativity? I wonder if it's still out there policing the timeline because it existed around the 29th Century didn't it? I wonder if the ship or the actual program for it still lives on.
I was going to cancel CBS AA now that new episodes are done for a while but decided to keep it for now since Paramount+ rebranding is supposed to happen on March 4. This is in case they decide to charge more for new customers.
https://trekmovie.com/2021/01/19/cbs-all-access-relaunches-as-paramount-in-march/
https://trekmovie.com/2021/01/19/cbs-all-access-relaunches-as-paramount-in-march/
Yeah the spore-drive did go from barely working to being able to do virtually everything once the tartigrade was plugged in pretty much instantly - there wasn't much of a learning curve.
I think some limitations would be a good thing as well. Range doesn't seem to be an issue and you can jump 130+ times one after the other without any downtime. Accuracy isn't an issue either cos you can jump into caves inside planets etc, other universes, travel through time.
I think some limitations would be a good thing as well. Range doesn't seem to be an issue and you can jump 130+ times one after the other without any downtime. Accuracy isn't an issue either cos you can jump into caves inside planets etc, other universes, travel through time.
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