How Will Culber Come Back?

[Ar-Pharazon]

That spore + whatever the asteroid is doing to the mycelial spores = reanimated Culbert.

They just have to recharge him every 350 miles.

 

[eschaton]

His soul is one with the spores.

The weird thing though is why? Culber really wasn't near spores much was he? Maybe some on Stamets rubbed off on him?

Otherwise, we have to conclude that all dead people end up in the mycelial network in the Trekverse. Which has some bad implications I don't want to think about.

 

[Kor]

So then there can be a whole story line about reconnecting the body created from the transporter pattern with the consciousness which exists in the green spore. And for some reason, this has to be done at a remote establishment on Mt. Seleya.

Kor

 

[The Wormhole]

The weird thing though is why?

Because of his love for Stamets

 

[Tim Thomason]

Tyler will atone for his crime by allowing his body to be massively reconfigured into something resembling Culber, and then they'll add in Culber's green spore consciousness to Tyler's collection of multiple personalities.

Then we'll find out it was Lorca's green spore consciousness pretending to be Culber's green spore consciousness all along!

 

[Mudd]

Culber was on the show last week. I'm sure he can do that for as long as they like.

 

[eschaton]

Culber was on the show last week. I'm sure he can do that for as long as they like.

That's not enough for main cast billing though. That's a cameo.

 

[DigificWriter]

I'm not sure if anyone else has come to this realization, but it's becoming pretty clear that whatever their plan is for Culber's return is actually something they've had in mind since the events of Despite Yourself.

 

[Ovation]

The weird thing though is why? Culber really wasn't near spores much was he? Maybe some on Stamets rubbed off on him?

Otherwise, we have to conclude that all dead people end up in the mycelial network in the Trekverse. Which has some bad implications I don't want to think about.

No. Only those killed on a Crossfield class ship with a fully operational spore-powered displacement drive by a surgically altered albino Klingon with a human personality and memory neural graft. It’s not as common as you might think.

 

[Campe]

No. Only those killed on a Crossfield class ship with a fully operational spore-powered displacement drive by a surgically altered albino Klingon with a human personality and memory neural graft. It’s not as common as you might think.

I heard the same thing happened to someone on an Oberth-Class vessel with a fully-operational computer killed by a Romulan with a phaser. I mean, come on.

 

[DonIago]

Though it's not infinitely improbable either...

 

[Ovation]

I heard the same thing happened to someone on an Oberth-Class vessel with a fully-operational computer killed by a Romulan with a phaser. I mean, come on.

That guy ended up in the Nexus. Not really the same thing.

 

[Mudd]

That's not enough for main cast billing though. That's a cameo.

Not by any essential definition.

If an actor appears regularly on the show and is paid and billed under a negotiated contract, it doesn't make any difference whether they're playing a recording, appearing in flashbacks, etc.

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

That guy ended up in the Nexus. Not really the same thing.

....or is it?

 

[eschaton]

Not by any essential definition.

If an actor appears regularly on the show and is paid and billed under a negotiated contract, it doesn't make any difference whether they're playing a recording, appearing in flashbacks, etc.

I'm talking about how he appears, I'm talking about how long he appears. He got less screen time than Connelly or Nahn.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I haven't seen all of the first season yet (just got into the MU episodes last night), and I've been making a point of avoiding spoilers, but possibly MUCulber?

IIRC, it's been confirmed that however Culber returns, it won't be his MU counterpart.

 

[KirkusOveractus]

IMO, I hope it's only in recorded messages or things like that, not resurrected somehow. That's been done quite a bit in Trek, and I'd rather this series deal with someone dying and staying dead.

 

[KennyB]

That's not enough for main cast billing though. That's a cameo.

No that's a damn good agent

 

[Ovation]

....or is it?

Mind. Blown.

 

[Tim Thomason]

IMO, I hope it's only in recorded messages or things like that, not resurrected somehow. That's been done quite a bit in Trek, and I'd rather this series deal with someone dying and staying dead.

Maybe Stamets gets an early version of holoaddiction, constantly avoiding work to hang out with Holo-Culber. Maybe he invents realistically tactile holograms in order to remain intimate with Holo-Culber.