The Spore Drive Technology. What Do You Think About It?

[Kor]

I think the spore thing is an interesting science-fantasy idea, and will make for some good entertainment.

I'm not educated enough in the advanced levels of the hard sciences to offer any qualified comment on the notion of physics and biology being the same. But astrophysicist Ethan Siegal says it's nonsense: https://www.forbes.com/sites/starts...is-for-kings-season-1-episode-3/#36b86c9d7f94

Kor

 

[Psion]

I think the spore thing is an interesting science-fantasy idea, and will make for some good entertainment.

I'm not educated enough in the advanced levels of the hard sciences to offer any qualified comment on the notion of physics and biology being the same. But astrophysicist Ethan Siegal says it's nonsense: https://www.forbes.com/sites/starts...is-for-kings-season-1-episode-3/#36b86c9d7f94

Kor

Maybe, but I think people get too worked up in Stalmet's hyperbole. He wasn't giving a dissertation on Spore Drive ... he was being a prima donna and trying to deflect Burnham's curiosity about the project. He might have employed any number of exaggerations and yanked-from-his-rectum metaphors in such a moment. Compare it to Kirk's description of how the transporter operates for Abraham Lincoln's benefit vs. Geordie and Data's description of the mechanism. We need to wait for a calmer moment from Stalmets to get a better explanation.

 

[CorporalClegg]

It's the only real original idea on the show.

I mean, besides the fortune cookies.

 

[Tarek71]

It's the only real original idea on the show.

I mean, besides the fortune cookies.

The idea that anyone actually eats those wretched things, let alone a whole bowl, was a lot less believable than Spore Drive.

 

[WarpFactorZ]

I thought the Glenn incident established the dangers of overuse of the drive? They'll all end up looking like the cover of Pink Floyd's The Wall...

 

[Phily B]

The trailer for the next episode makes it look almost like a BSG style FTL.

It is a real shame this show takes place around TOS, cause we know this isn't sticking around. If it was a century or two post Dominion War, it would be genuinely a lot more interesting.

 

[Nerys Myk]

The trailer for the next episode makes it look almost like a BSG style FTL.

It is a real shame this show takes place around TOS, cause we know this isn't sticking around. If it was a century or two post Dominion War, it would be genuinely a lot more interesting.

In a franchise where "groundbreaking technology" appears and disappears faster than ice in the desert, I don't think that's a problem.

 

[Longinus]

In a franchise where "groundbreaking technology" appears and disappears faster than ice in the desert, I don't think that's a problem.

That however is one thing I've always hated so I'm not exactly thrilled that such technology is a focal point of the new show.

 

[Albinator]

An "out there" piece of real-science based tech, that seems silly at first glance, and revolutionary if even remotely plausible? Sounds very Star Trek.

 

[Nerys Myk]

That however is one thing I've always hated so I'm not exactly thrilled that such technology is a focal point of the new show.

It's Trek's way.
I look at the season the same way I used to look at single episodes. They have the entire season to resolve the "problem".

 

[Spider]

If your show is set in outer space, with gigantic space ships and aliens and FTL drives, you need to leave your science behind and just enjoy the ride. It's like asking what shampoo a werewolf uses, you're thinking it to hard.

 

[Nerys Myk]

If your show is set in outer space, with gigantic space ships and aliens and FTL drives, you need to leave your science behind and just enjoy the ride. It's like asking what shampoo a werewolf uses, you're thinking it to hard.

Werewolves use new Johnson's No More Tangles. So does Cadet Tilly.

 

[XCV330]

The idea that anyone actually eats those wretched things, let alone a whole bowl, was a lot less believable than Spore Drive.

Their fortune cookie technology is light years beyond ours.

 

[XCV330]

The trailer for the next episode makes it look almost like a BSG style FTL.

It is a real shame this show takes place around TOS, cause we know this isn't sticking around. If it was a century or two post Dominion War, it would be genuinely a lot more interesting.

We don't know where/when ultimately the ship ends up.

 

[Sarek@Vulcan]

This articles about slime molds that think and learn but don't have neurons or brain is interesting because it changes or paradigm of how we think about molds. So if given enough imagination to idea of spore drive I think it could work in theory.

Links to that interesting articles:
Slime molds prove you don’t need a brain to learn — or teach — a new trick
Slime Molds Are Smarter Than You Think

For the first time, scientists have demonstrated that an organism devoid of a nervous system is capable of learning. Biologists have succeeded in showing that a single-celled organism, the protist, is capable of a type of learning called habituation. This discovery throws light on the origins of learning ability during evolution, even before the appearance of a nervous system and brain. It may also raise questions as to the learning capacities of other extremely simple organisms such as viruses and bacteria. Link here

 

[Phily B]

In a franchise where "groundbreaking technology" appears and disappears faster than ice in the desert, I don't think that's a problem.

Ya, just saying it'd be cool if there was a future series where the game changer was a different type of warp tech which allowed for BSG style jumping which technically had unlimited range.

 

[Tesophius]

I think that warp drive is an incredibly ambitious tech, it basically exists on the fringes of theoretical physics, anything that's beyond even warp drive is just silly at this point.

 

[Refuge]

I still can't reconcile spore drive with what I know is about to happen (future timeline) with a technology that doesn't seem to be embraced later on. Obviously mushroom power failed.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I still can't reconcile spore drive with what I know is about to happen (future timeline) with a technology that doesn't seem to be embraced later on. Obviously mushroom power failed.

You just reconciled it. Congratulations.

 

[Brainsucker]

So the Spore jump drive is actually the myth warp 10?