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

[fireproof78]

Which proves that Discovery is as good (a show) as Voyager.

So it's Star Trek.

 

[ralfy]

Neither was the Genesis Device, protomatter, Omega molecules, various forms of time travel, including slingshot, giant gateways, etc. Robots and androids who apparently cease to exist after their discovery. A cure for evolving human condition.

But those appeared in the other shows. My question is whether spore drive tech was mentioned in any of the shows that depicted events after STD.

 

[Nerys Myk]

But those appeared in the other shows. My question is whether spore drive tech was mentioned in any of the shows that depicted events after STD.

How exactly could that happen? Star Trek is fiction not a documentary covering the 22nd, 23rd and 24th Centuries. They're making it all up.

 

[Captain of the USS Averof]

So it's Star Trek.

I believe it says that in the titles.

 

[Ithekro]

Or else they renamed it the Transwarp drive, stuck it on USS Excelsior, and then Scotty clogged up the spore feed in the computer drive, conking it out before they tried to jump/warp ahead of Enterprise so they could get a tractor lock on them. They figured it didn't work and pulled the stuff out and left the warp drive in. Captain Styles was prepared to be groovy, but Sulu?

 

[fireproof78]

I believe it says that in the titles.

That's not always enough...apparently.

 

[Mad Jack Wolfe]

How exactly could that happen? Star Trek is fiction not a documentary covering the 22nd, 23rd and 24th Centuries. They're making it all up.

There you go again, muddling things further by bringing proper perspective into the discussion.

 

[XCV330]

How exactly could that happen? Star Trek is fiction not a documentary covering the 22nd, 23rd and 24th Centuries. They're making it all up.

Benny had some rewrites later on in the 60's.

 

[shakham]

Neither was the Genesis Device, protomatter, Omega molecules, various forms of time travel, including slingshot, giant gateways, etc. Robots and androids who apparently cease to exist after their discovery. A cure for evolving human condition.

Yes, but the spores are in every episode and are one of the crew now. I suggest we name them Sporey.

I’m just waiting for the sporepedos that can basically be used to attack anyone, anywhere in the universe.

I mean, we already can transwarp beam to the Klingon homeworld. Might as well sporebeam further.

 

[fireproof78]

Yes, but the spores are in every episode and are one of the crew now. I suggest we name them Sporey.

I’m just waiting for the sporepedos that can basically be used to attack anyone, anywhere in the universe.

I mean, we already can transwarp beam to the Klingon homeworld. Might as well sporebeam further.

Wrong universe.

 

[Ronald Held]

Part of Star Trek is believability. Science extensions would generally be excepted. Things this far out strains incredibility.

 

[Jadeb]

To me, the bar for technobabble is pretty low:

1. It should facilitate the action, not be the action.

2. It should not jar the viewer out of the story.

The spore drive fails the second pretty hard for me. That's enough to call it a failure of the writing, IMO.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Part of Star Trek is believability. Science extensions would generally be excepted. Things this far out strains incredibility.

What science is being "extended" with

• Alien-human hybrids
• Telepathy, telekinesis
• God like aliens

is a xenofungus made of exotic matter that exists multi-dimensionally really that extreme in Star Trek?

 

[Mechanoid1]

is a xenofungus made of exotic matter that exists multi-dimensionally really that extreme in Star Trek?

YES, then couple that with a tardigrade used as a supercomputer, gene splice the tardigrade into a human then use him as a super computer. Then throw in a time machine in cargo bay 1, inside of a space whale. (Does any of this sound like star trek?)
Extreme is a mild word for this story.

 

[Longinus]

YES, then couple that with a tardigrade used as a supercomputer, gene splice the tardigrade into a human then use him as a super computer. Then throw in a time machine in cargo bay 1, inside of a space whale. (Does any of this sound like star trek?)
Extreme is a mild word for this story.

Yeah. This sort of thing might work in Doctor Who, although it would be on the extreme end of nonsense even by that show's standards, but it feels pretty out of place in Trek, especially as one of the core premises of the entire show (or at least a season.)

 

[Refuge]

To me, the bar for technobabble is pretty low:

1. It should facilitate the action, not be the action.

2. It should not jar the viewer out of the story.

The spore drive fails the second pretty hard for me. That's enough to call it a failure of the writing, IMO.

Well there is that 'thing' on Stamets arm now so he doesn't have to have electrodes stuck on his nipple region when he becomes Discovery's battery pack. for its magic time jumps.

 

[fireproof78]

Part of Star Trek is believability. Science extensions would generally be excepted. Things this far out strains incredibility.

No, it really isn't. That ship went to warp, broke through the Great Barrier, and hasn't been seen since its crew ascended to a higher plane of existence.

 

[Nerys Myk]

YES, then couple that with a tardigrade used as a supercomputer, gene splice the tardigrade into a human then use him as a super computer. Then throw in a time machine in cargo bay 1, inside of a space whale. (Does any of this sound like star trek?)
Extreme is a mild word for this story.

Sounds very much like Star Trek.

 

[fireproof78]

YES, then couple that with a tardigrade used as a supercomputer, gene splice the tardigrade into a human then use him as a super computer. Then throw in a time machine in cargo bay 1, inside of a space whale. (Does any of this sound like star trek?)
Extreme is a mild word for this story.

Yes, yes it does.

 

[Mechanoid1]

Sounds very much like Star Trek.

I think we are indeed from mirrored universes. BTW I like your new look.