Voyager S5 E26 Equinox
Voyager can't talk shit because it runs on lab-grown living brain tissue
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2023
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Hey! Bioneural gel packs make the Voyager smart and not at all silently screaming in existential terror!
I have no mouth and I must scream
The cheese cometh....
That’s what they made us think
Both can be true.
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"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."
Majel Barrett's sassy replicator was some of her finest work.
Hey, they are extra dimensional ghost corpses. There's a difference.
Spirits of good fortune, not ghosts.
Took me a second to figure out ransomware. Bravo.
To be fair, magic mushrooms actually exist.
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
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.
Counterpoint:
Q
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.
Q to Stamets: "Who do you think put mushrooms on your planet?"
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.
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.
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.
Love ya Stamets, you big shroomhead
Mushrooms are cool. They defy reality here on earth. Makes sense they'd do it in space.
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