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Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.

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[–] queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 1 year ago (20 children)

The only issues I have (currently, until proven wrong) with DIscovery with the Spore Drive and other technological things, is that it didn't seem to have an answer for why the Federation didn't use it later. I do know that in the timeskip season, a log does not mention the use of the s-drive.

But man I can only imagine how pissed Admiral Janeway would have been to find out it exists.

Plus I can't hate a show that has Doug Jones in it. I didn't get into Discovery, but I don't hate it.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 33 points 1 year ago (16 children)

it didn’t seem to have an answer for why the Federation didn’t use it later.

Well, you need to either find and enslave an exotic space tardigrade in order to navigate the network, or illegally splice said tardigrade's DNA into your own.

And even then, navigation is pretty challenging, and can result in accidental time and/or interdimensional travel.

And a malfunction has the potential to destroy all life in the multiverse.

And both ships that had the prototypes installed were lost within about a year.

Take your pick, really.

[–] Draegur@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yyyyyyeahhh genetic modification has been a BIG NO-NO in trek canon since the 1990s eugenics wars, right...?

There are allowances for genetic therapies to treat medical conditions, but this probably falls outside of that realm just a bit.

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