Star Trek: Original Series • Discovery • Picard • Lower Decks • Prodigy • Strange New Worlds
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Anh
Naim ghetto blaster
It is far fetched, and if we look at the 'future' in TOS/TNG etc, warp drive was the standard form of FTL travel.
This means the mushroom express will have failed spectacularly at some point in the series.
DonQuixote99
pfm Member
Must agree that operating a space-drive by torturing an intelligent macrobe is very non-Starfleet. Though there have been slips before, Archer vacuum-boarding a prisoner comes to mind.
The doom of fungus flight will probably be that the macrobe will get killed, and they won't be able to find another one. OR--about 10,000 macrobes show up, rescue their comrade, and tell Starfleet to knock it off or else.
The doom of fungus flight will probably be that the macrobe will get killed, and they won't be able to find another one. OR--about 10,000 macrobes show up, rescue their comrade, and tell Starfleet to knock it off or else.
vuk
\o/ choose anarchy
joe.
i had it, then DS9 made massive dent in that motivation for me. voyager finished off like photon torpedo blowing up a little puppy.
vuk.
Yank
Bulbous Also Tapered
DS9 got better as the ensemble cast appeared to develop some chemistry. But my favorite episode was "Far Beyond The Stars" where the cast played the staff of a pulp '50s scifi magazine.
Mongeddavid
pfm Member
I have preferred some of the fan based series based on Kirk and Spock to this at least so far.
For me DS9 really needed a full-time starship, so when The Defiant gets stationed at DS9 & the Dominion stuff steps up the series came into its own.
stephen bennett
Mr Enigma
Joe P
Memory Alpha incarnate | mod; Shatner number = 2
OK, I know it's science fiction, but how does spore drive supposedly work?
Warp drive at least seems plausible matter and antimatter reacting and annihilating each other, powering some sort of warping of space-time thereby shortening the journey from A to B.
But fungus-among-us drive? I don't get it.
Joe
Warp drive at least seems plausible matter and antimatter reacting and annihilating each other, powering some sort of warping of space-time thereby shortening the journey from A to B.
But fungus-among-us drive? I don't get it.
Joe
Mongeddavid
pfm Member
Joe if youd ever taken magic mushrooms you would know that you can be transported to a different planet
Jonathan Ribee
Unavailable at present
I find it odd that my need for long meetings discussing the way forward is being met by the Klingons and not The Federation.
tones
Tones deaf
According to Lawrence Krauss in The physics of Star Trek, completely possible - however, it involves annihilating the mass of a small sun every 10 seconds...
A Mexican physicist, Miguel Alcubierre, has suggested a solution of the Einstein field equations that might make it possible:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
Given the current behaviour of the human race, I hope he's wrong and that the human contagion is forever stuck in this solar system.
tones
Tones deaf
Just to double-check - are we cool with how transporters work to magically dismantle and reassemble people without them looking like human versions of shoddily constructed IKEA furniture?
No, but it can lead to interesting plot lines:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0yaRZbki6U
Jonathan Ribee
Unavailable at present
I think the best course of action is to forget that this is Star Trek and just assume it is A N Other sci-fi series. I mean, other than a few names (Federation, Klingon, Cockran) and some highly recognisable beepy noise if could be any other sci-fi show.
