Will Disco by any chance revisit the planet where they planted the spores?

[Deks]

I've been thinking.
If the Spore Drive ends up being used by other Starfleet ships (which seems inevitable - and something to replace the Warp drive and dilithium)... will they revisit that planet from late Season 1 in which Discovery planted all those spores to fill up the new ships supplies?
Well, there's that, and Discovery's own spore garden adjacent to the engine room.

Plus, it would be interesting to see how the planet changed with a really large supply of Prototaxites stellaviatori after 930 years of being left on its own.

 

[KirkusOveractus]

That, or send the Tikhov to gather and store the seeds.

 

[Deks]

That, or send the Tikhov to gather and store the seeds.

Yes.
Or at least the samples which could grow the spores should the need arise (not sure if the spores have 'seeds' in the classical sense... Stamets had the original strain which he used to cultivate his own batch).

 

[KirkusOveractus]

Yes.
Or at least the samples which could grow the spores should the need arise (not sure if the spores have 'seeds' in the classical sense... Stamets had the original strain which he used to cultivate his own batch).

Could be a way to have Nhan as a recurring role.

 

[fireproof78]

I hope the Spores take over the Federation.

 

[arch101]

I was thinking about this a couple of weeks ago. That planet should be thick with the shrooms by now. Starfleet will need them if they start mass-producing spore drive ships.

 

[Deks]

I was thinking about this a couple of weeks ago. That planet should be thick with the shrooms by now. Starfleet will need them if they start mass-producing spore drive ships.

It might even be habitable by now (unless it was before)... who knows.
I think Starfleet HQ could use that planet (or Discovery's own spore garden) to grow their own on board for continuous supplies.
Or its possible that Starfleet could come up with a much more efficient way of producing the spores (that isn't harmful to the spore network or would damage the universe in any way like the Terrans did).
It IS the 32nd century after all.

At any rate, a revisit to that Spore planet might be interesting.
And technically, you could grow them on virtually any other similarly desolate planet (or moons).

Ships would likely have their own spore gardens to provide a steady supply... but otherwise, there could be other positive applications to growing spores on planets.

 

[Deks]

I hope the Spores take over the Federation.

Here's a wild hypothesis:
That planet on which Discovery planted the spores ended up rapidly evolving into a civilization which caused the Burn.
They tried reaching out to the Federation to see about joining and possibly offering themselves as a way to enable clean/safe propulsion and to explore the galaxy (not something that would use sentient spores, but say non-sentient ones that never achieved sentient status and they had 0 qualms about using those non-sentient versions - the difference would be the same as if comparing say sentient and non-sentient holograms)... but communication was not possible (for whatever reason) and the spore civilization took that the wrong way (possibly as being ignored because they hadn't received any word to their hails) and ended up causing the Burn as a way to get Federation attention.

 

[NCC-73515]

And they go back in time to stop the first spore flight... and it turns out they're the shroomheads from ENT.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I hope the Spores take over the Federation.

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[alex08060]

They have to go back if they want more spore drives for the federation.