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DonQuixote99
pfm Member
The mushroom drive is not technology. It's classic sympathetic magic. Same idea as a voodoo doll, where you make it resemble the victim, and then can cause real hurt to the victim by doing stuff to the doll. The mushroom drive works, apparently, because there is a universal phenomena that resembles the mycelium of mushrooms, so it can be influenced and manipulated by doing stuff with mushrooms. If one believes in magic, that is.
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Joe P
Memory Alpha incarnate | mod; Shatner number = 2
Don,
Well, OK, but the mushroom drive kills a plot device that was at the heart of many original series episodes — the ship having some problem with the engines that puts the entire crew in danger only for the engines to be fixed at the last possible second.
Joe
Well, OK, but the mushroom drive kills a plot device that was at the heart of many original series episodes — the ship having some problem with the engines that puts the entire crew in danger only for the engines to be fixed at the last possible second.
Joe
DonQuixote99
pfm Member
It was not my intent to make anyone think the mushroom drive is 'OK.' To be clear, I don't believe in magic. The ST Universe is always represented as 'reality based,' though the 'science' certainly has never been rigorous. But a thing that is explainable as magic much more aptly than any claim of scientific basis? Violates reality, I'm afraid. I've edited my previous post to hopefully make it a little clearer that I was more aiming to throw stones at the mushroom drive than to offer a satisfactory rationale or something.
It makes much more sense as part of a quantum multi-verse concept.Jeez, give them a little time!
A couple weeks ago they were only just exploring ambient soundscapes, this week they are taking baby steps with techno
Mushrooms man, way of the future
david ellwood
Kirabosi Kognoscente
It’s all getting a bit too BBC PC for me.
kasperhauser
pfm Member
I know this thread isn't about Enterprise, but has it been mentioned yet that the actor who played Ensign Travis Mayweather is Wes Montgomery's grandson? There's 91 pages here, so I didn't look through them all.
Seems like the perfect PFM crossover trivia.
Seems like the perfect PFM crossover trivia.
Yank
Bulbous Also Tapered
Is being cast as a regular on a Star Trek series a career-ending move? Seems like few of the regulars went on to bigger and better roles. And with the later series, it seems like they go straight from Trek to the convention circuit, and maybe the occasional Hallmark or Lifetime movie, or a guest villain of the week on a police procedural.
Hook
Blackbeard's former bo'sun.
I thought it was a wonderful episode! Don't recall the original portal having a human representation though. Carl was Q-esque!
Joe P
Memory Alpha incarnate | mod; Shatner number = 2
Hook,
One of the profs at work, who used to be the top Trekkie until I was hired, thought Carl was a Q. I countered that the doorway Philippa Georgiou passed through and comments in the form of riddles were more like a Guardian of Forever.*
Guess who's laughing now?
Joe
* An exchange over email. Pandemic...
One of the profs at work, who used to be the top Trekkie until I was hired, thought Carl was a Q. I countered that the doorway Philippa Georgiou passed through and comments in the form of riddles were more like a Guardian of Forever.*
Guess who's laughing now?
Joe
* An exchange over email. Pandemic...
Craig B
Re:trophile
Joe,
The young Joan Collins is firmly etched in the archival recesses of my mind.
WRT 'The City on the Edge of Forever', being the legend that is me in my own mind, I would have elbowed Kirk in the face, and snatched Edith off that street just in time, regardless of which particular fascist era was pending. Of course, in my fantasy version, I would have been Spock, and spontaneously (prematurely?) gone into pon farr post carrying Edith off.
Craig
The young Joan Collins is firmly etched in the archival recesses of my mind.
WRT 'The City on the Edge of Forever', being the legend that is me in my own mind, I would have elbowed Kirk in the face, and snatched Edith off that street just in time, regardless of which particular fascist era was pending. Of course, in my fantasy version, I would have been Spock, and spontaneously (prematurely?) gone into pon farr post carrying Edith off.
Craig