Line in TNG that [Accidentally] Hints at Mycelial Network?

[Jackson_Roykirk]

I was just watching the TNG episode "Haven" (s1,ep11). It was the episode about Troi's long-ago arranged wedding to a human named Wyatt. Wyatt tells Troi that since he was a child, he has had constant visions, thoughts, and dreams of a woman he has never met -- until that woman happens to show up that day on a ship that approaches the Enterprise. The woman (named Ariana) confides that she too has had lifelong visions of Wyatt, although she has never met him.

Anyway...Wyatt asks Lwaxana (who has some expertise in telepathic thoughts) how it could be possible how both he and Ariana have had these life-long thoughts and visions of each other across light years of space. Lwaxana's answer (below) oddly sounds a bit like the description of the mycelial network in DIS season one:

Lwaxana:

"Now, the answer to the puzzle of Ariana and you is so simple, it's too simple for most humans to understand....It's something they all know instinctively, yet go to great effort to reject or build complicated superstitions about. All life, Wyatt, all consciousness, is indissolubly bound together. Indeed, it's all part of the same thing."
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I'm not claiming anything other than coincidence, but as fans it is interesting to consider how Lwaxana's description about how all life is connected can be applied to the mycelial network.

 

[NewHeavensNewEarth]

There's also the VOY episode "Non Sequitur" in which Harry is instantly transported from the Delta Quadrant back to Earth in a mirror universe or altered timeline. They call it the "timestream," but it also involved space (not only time), taking him all the way back to the Delta Quadrant in an instant. The aliens who helped Harry also used the timestream in pretty much the same way as the mycelial network.

 

[WarpFactorZ]

I'm not claiming anything other than coincidence, but as fans it is interesting to consider how Lwaxana's description about how all life is connected can be applied to the mycelial network.

It can be applied to the Force, as well (not to mention various Earth religions).

 

[Mudd]

Yeah, this is a fairly generic and widespread spiritual belief.

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

It can be applied to the Force, as well (not to mention various Earth religions).

Yeah -- but I was just trying to keep it in the Star Trek universe, finding nuggets of continuity (even accidental continuity) across series.

Obviously the idea of the mycelial network as being something similar to The Force didn't escape me.

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

Yeah, this is a fairly generic and widespread spiritual belief.

Sure, but Star Trek for the most part had never overtly posited that "all consciousness, all things are intertwined by some unseen connective force that pervades the universe." That's been a Star Wars thing.

A Star Trek episode here and there might touch upon this idea (such as the aforementioned "Haven"), but for the most part prior to DIS, Star Trek has NOT claimed that all life and consciousness throughout the universe is connected by something like The Force in Star Wars.

 

[Succubint]

Didn't the Traveler have similar dialogue? Well, I think it was more about space, time and thought being the same thing? How he could travel vast distances using conscious thought to alter reality.

 

[Hythlodeus]

Didn't the Traveler have similar dialogue? Well, I think it was more about space, time and thought being the same thing? How he could travel vast distances using conscious thought to alter reality.

well, the Traveller was obviously on shrooms