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Really? (spoilers)
posted by KnixonSTAFFMOD on October 14, 2017 at 11:18 PM
Somehow this navigator creature not only takes them right to the colony planet, but to a position just above the colony itself?
Come on. Suspension of disbelief has limits.
Now I'd like to hear this explanation from Burnham or Lorca or some admiral or whatever for why they don't still have this method in the later series: "We decided it's impractical not because it's cruel to the creature or something, but just because it sounds like a bad idea from a bad tv show reboot attempt."
And why would Discovery be able to rotate like that, when it wasn't originally designed for anything like "spore drive?"
Reply by fan_of_films
on October 15, 2017 at 6:11 PM
I think the spore drive is utter nonsense. Gene Roddenberry created the cool concept of warp drive - it was a great sci-fi idea and it summed up the pioneering essence of the show - and now decades later tv writers dismiss it and come up with a crappier version. Meh.
The idea of keeping a dangerous animal on board - also ridiculous. Set phasers to dumb!
Reply by Knixon
on October 15, 2017 at 6:24 PM
They seemed to start out too by at least insinuating that the creature was somehow a result of the accident on/about the Glenn. But now it obviously must have been created somehow, apparently from some microscopic Earth thing? Feh.
And why didn't both research ship captains know exactly what the other was doing?
Reply by Patrick E. Abe
on October 16, 2017 at 7:20 PM
I recall from the briefing Capt. Lorca had with the admirals that there is an "active search for other Tardigrades" (This suggests that giant Tardigrades are a space-dwelling creature that uses the spore network to travel hither and yon at will.) As for U.S.S. Glenn staying in contact with U.S.S. Discovery, "does Macy's tell Gimble's what they're doing?" covers the rivalry between the former head scientists taking different approaches to The Problem. As for why "Spore Drive" isn't around, there's NX-2000's "Trans Warp" drive that "Montgomery Scott" turned sideways in "Star Trek 3: The Search For Spock." (Going from "Zero to Warp 7+" ultimately didn't work.)
Reply by Knixon
on October 16, 2017 at 7:35 PM
It seems like they did get trans-warp working. And it might have worked the first time if Scotty hadn't sabotaged it. (Presumably there had been successful tests before too, on smaller platforms, before building a whole Excelsior to use it.) They did some experiementing with trans-warp in the Voyager series too, but the ship just wasn't up to it. Which also leads to things like "Warp 13" being expressed in the TNG series finale, scenes that took place years into the future.