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Voyager S5 E26 Equinox

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[-] [email protected] 51 points 10 months ago

Voyager can't talk shit because it runs on lab-grown living brain tissue

[-] [email protected] 55 points 10 months ago

Hey! Bioneural gel packs make the Voyager smart and not at all silently screaming in existential terror!

[-] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

I have no mouth and I must scream

[-] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

The cheese cometh....

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

That’s what they made us think

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[-] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago

returns to fluidic space to complain online about trek physical accuracy

[-] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago

"Replicator, give me a slice of mushroom pizza."

"Hot or cold."

"Hot."

"Space-warping travel mushrooms or the ones that grow on old logs."

"Uh, the log ones I guess."

"Coward."

[-] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Majel Barrett's sassy replicator was some of her finest work.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x9G2i8XWEOI

[-] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

Hey, they are extra dimensional ghost corpses. There's a difference.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Spirits of good fortune, not ghosts.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Took me a second to figure out ransomware. Bravo.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

To be fair, magic mushrooms actually exist.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I watched this one when I was a kid and it fucked me up. I couldn't believe starfleet officers could do that.

The equinos looked cool though

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I too am still waiting for Starflight 3

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Starship running on mushrooms? Yeah, why not
The mushrooms are some omnipresent thing connecting all space and time together and giving some special super powers somehow? The force stolen you have. Integration of science fantasy into science fiction unasked for was.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Countercounterpoint:

The Q know about the mycelial network, likely because they created it for their own purposes. That's how they can seem to transport anywhere in the universe. Quinn essentially admitted as much when he said that their "magic" is simply very advanced technology. A mycelial network permeating subspace would be right up their alley.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Q to Stamets: "Who do you think put mushrooms on your planet?"

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The mushrooms are some omnipresent thing connecting all space and time together and giving some special super powers somehow?

Complete and utter nonsense that is an outright fabrication. What you're describing does not exist in Discovery. You're collapsing 3-4 different things into one while misunderstanding every single one of them.

The mushrooms are some omnipresent thing

~~No they're not. Nothing in Discovery is omnipresent. The closest thing is Carl which that can be argued.~~

I misread this as omniscient. The Network is slightly omnipresent but it's not sentient and makes no decision. It's merely a root system/highway. It also doesn't exist in ALL places. It only exists where life exists. The network does not have root structures in intergalactic space, as an example.

thing connecting all space and time together

That's accurate. The Mycelial Network (the fungal root structure that permeates an extra layer of space, similar to subspace and transwarp) does connect all of time and space.

special super powers somehow?

No one has super special powers. The closest is Stamets but that's because of genetic engineering. DNA from a unique species of tardigrade was taken and incorporated into Stamets' own DNA. Now he has the ability to see time a little differently due to that DNA and he has the ability to navigate the Mycelial Network. End of 'special super powers'.

From what I can tell, you took the Mycelial Network, the Tardigrade, Stamets Ability, and the jahSepp (which are a sentient race of fungus that live within the mycelial network and breakdown organic material the same way that fungus does on Earth) and then collapsed them into all one giant mess.

That's not the force and it's nowhere even close to it.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I'm sorry my guy but Stamets literally has a throwaway line in S1 saying that if the mycelial network is destroyed it will "kill all life in the multiverse"

It doesn't just connect space and time it connects different universes. Why do you think Lorca was so interested in Discovery, it was the tech that was able to get him back to his original universe.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There's nothing to be sorry for as the only thing of mine that you're negating is the 'omnipresent' thing and that's only because I misread it as omniscient. Even then you're not negating it fully as Season 4 specifically shows that the mycelial network doesn't exist outside of the galactic boundaries. It only exists where life exists.

Everything else stands.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Love ya Stamets, you big shroomhead

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Mushrooms are cool. They defy reality here on earth. Makes sense they'd do it in space.

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