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. This isn’t a thing in Discovery.
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Norgur@kbin.social 11 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.
Stamets@startrek.website 11 months ago
canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 11 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.
Stamets@startrek.website 11 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.
Everything else stands.
canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Love ya Stamets, you big shroomhead
AngrilyEatingMuffins@kbin.social 11 months ago
So what I’m getting from your post is that everything they said is accurate
Stamets@startrek.website 11 months ago
That’s a you problem, not a reality problem.
AngrilyEatingMuffins@kbin.social 11 months ago
Seems more like a you problem tbh
melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
I’m confused how something could connect all of time and space together without being omnipresent. It seems to me that the network is omnipresent by definition, because it exists everywhere.
Stamets@startrek.website 11 months ago
I misread it as omniscient. My bad there.
The root system isn’t omnipresent though. It only exists where life exists. The root system doesn’t permeate in regions of dead space or intergalactic space. If there’s nothing for life to grow on then the network doesn’t exist there.
melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
That’s true, it spans the entire multiverse but only within one galaxy. It’s odd, but it’s cool that the network is so deeply tied to the Milky Way, just in every reality.
It makes me wonder what the network is actually feeding off of. Life? Some sort of nebulous “energy”?
Not something that they need to answer, but it’s just so cool to think about the mystery of it. I love fungi, and I love the mycelial network as this truly cosmic-scale organism living in subspace, holding the multiverse together. It’s beautiful.
agent_flounder@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Like I tell my kid who is constantly asking “how” whenever we watch Star Trek^1, it’s best not to think too hard about all that lol. I mean, I don’t love the Tuvix episode for the science…
1 Somehow this never happens when watching anime 🤔
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Now he has the ability to see time a little differently due to that DNA
Which is kind of weird given that DNA is carbon, hydrogen, moving and forming bonds based on physics. It’s why folding at home can simulate proteins.
Do anything DNA does can be simulated on a computer.
Stamets@startrek.website 11 months ago
But it couldn’t. The network requires a living link. Computers were used for the first couple episodes and they were beyong unreliable.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“Living” is a chemical process. Since Stamets was able to transfer the DNA into himself, he had identified the segments that coded the particular proteins.
MudMan@kbin.social 11 months ago
Counterpoint:
Q
Bonehead@kbin.social 11 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.
aeronmelon@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Q to Stamets: “Who do you think put mushrooms on your planet?”