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‘That’s going to be a big discussion that we have in season two. It is a challenge creatively because we have lots of choices, in terms of how do we reconcile this drive? This surrogate daughter of Sarek? How do we reconcile these things the closer we get to the original series?
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‘We have ten years until the original series comes into play. They kind of wrote themselves into a corner, IMO, by establishing what would happen if a ship reached Warp 10.Today I read a news article about what the creators of Discovery plan for Season 2. If this was all on the same scale, Starfleet's newer ships were barely going any faster than their predecessors. I think it sort of makes sense in my head because when you consider that the NX-01's maximum velocity was warp 5, it's only doubled nearly two centuries later with TNG. So by the time you get to TNG's era, they operate on an entirely different scale than they did in the TOS era.
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Ages ago, when I brought this up somewhere else, someone suggested that it wasn't the transwarp that we know later but a new type of warp drive that forced Starfleet to rescale the speeds. Starfleet experimented with transwarp drive in ST3. It reminded me a lot of Voyager's Equinox. Back when they had to use the Tardigrade and potentially risk the well-being of another life form that should've been enough for Starfleet to forgo using the technology again. What I had always hoped they would've settled on with the spore drive is that it's too dangerous to use because of the moral implications. Spore drives are unstable and require too many moral compromises to operate. Stamets further expanded upon his work by torturing the living being and when that was disrupted, by conducting illegal genetic experiments on himself to enable him to drive the ship. Ultimately, the device killed all the crew aboard in a grisly manner. To gain improved distance, Straal realized that the device needed a navigator and tortured a living being to achieve further distances. The basic theory worked, but was only good for very short distances. Mushroom Flight seems to be juuuuuust the kind of technology that most people would look at and say, "Yeah, no." Stamets was one of a kind there, or two of a kind with his partner.Īnyone looking back on the history books is going to see this - The Spore Drive was a propulsion technology that showed some promise, developed by two unethical scientists named Paul Stamets and Straal. I dont even understand why people find it so difficult to understand. There are problems with DISCO, I don't believe this is one of them. It's not impossible that the Federation "forgetting" about Omega happened again with the spore drive. Not to mention, the only way to get the drive to work was torturing an innocent sentient creature, or violating the Federation's ban on genetic augmentation. By the TNG era, everybody with personal knowledge of the spore drive was likely dead of old age and there had been no record of it in official databases for over 100 years. But, after the Glenn's malfunction killed all crew on board instantly, and Discovery was officially destroyed in battle when the spore drive exploded killing a total of almost 300 crew between both ships, the technology was written off as too dangerous a gamble and scrubbed from the records.
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The spore drive was a revolutionary new technology developed in the 23rd century and installed on two ships. 100 years later in the late 24th century, only captains and admirals knew about it. Due to the danger, it was scrubbed from the records, over time people forgot about it. But, after its explosion destroyed subspace in the Lantaru Sector and killed 127 top Federation scientists. The Federation's discovery of Omega was a revolutionary new technology in the 23rd century. When then DISCO season 2 finale aired and Spock suggested that knowledge of the spore drive should become top secret with nobody allowed to speak of Discovery or the spore drive ever again, some people said it was a cheap way to smooth canon over and explain why the Discovery was never mentioned again through Trek history, especially in Voyager's case.īut a revolutionary new technology from the 23rd century suddenly being scrubbed from the records and never brought up again has happened before.