![]() How about an AI that plots to acquire a download of information to become self-aware because it really wants to become self-aware, even though having that desire would mean it's already self-aware. name a concept more stupid than Spore drive. I tried to remove all memory of discovery from my brain, but I kinda remember the thing being a unique very difficult to replicate bit of technology, not to mention it being unwieldy considering you need a guy to jack into it for it to work Imagine the Dominion steals a ship with Spore drive and reverse engineers it then you get 20 million Jem'hadar ships instantly teleported around earth. "Attention all starfleet! Prepare to teleport to Earth Spacedock on my mark. "Sir, we have an incoming Borg cube on a trajectory to Sector 001" They must've really been scraping the barrel on ideas with Discovery. I am flabbergasted that this was even thought of by the writers, let alone taken seriously by the producers. It makes no sense from a canon perspective, makes no sense from a non-canon perspective, makes no sense in-universe and makes no sense out-of-universe. Trek-science has always been fun and this new take on it is no different for me.Originally posted by Bufnitza:Spore drive is the most non-sensical concept to ever be invented in the entire Sci-fi universe. but quantum physics is that weird science that says anything can happen for no reason whatsoever :P Tomorrow we might learn that there is a type of mushroom that curiously has root systems that are influenced by some kind of weird quantum entanglement effect. ![]() So today we have a made-up living organism that exists in our dimension but is entangled with the made-up realm we learned to accept, allowing for even faster than FTL drives possible. Nowadays we accept that it might be possible, but the engineering and power to do so is outside our current grasp. The made-up realm of subspace allowed us to believe that FTL drives were possible, at a time when we were told that FTL is absolutely without-a-doubt impossible. Now, we get more sciencey sounding explanations, but they're still the same magic. ![]() The Traveler has never been a completely believable character through scrutiny, but he was the type of 'evolved' alien that we were use to back in the day. An idea that regular everyday beings can, in fact, evolve to a 'higher plane of existence' that sci-fi loves to posit. It also retroactively makes characters like The Traveler more believable, in that we can kinda say there is precedent for organic beings to be tied into subspace purely by genetic makeup. It was so much fun to hear Stamets talking about it. The technobabble explanation of it in episode 5 (or was it episode 4?), well I totally geek out with technobabble in general, but it made sense in-universe building off already established Trek-science ideas. I really enjoy the idea of living and corporeal fungus has part of its structure entangled with the quantum realm that its root system can reach into the depths of subspace. The mycelial network and the spore drive seem like a natural progression of the same idea, but it has the added fun of an organic component. When I was a kid, I thought subspace was a real thing and that the science of pushing a ship into the subspace plane with a warp core was totally believable. ![]() Personally, I think the mycelial network is a fun take on the same silly Trek-science of subspace.
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