JC's Trek Talk

Another Hypothetical Scene Janeway: With Seven's help I've managed to decrypt the classified data we received from Starfleet. (Janeway reads through the data: records of the USS Discovery, the Spore Drive, the Mycelial Network) Janeway: (laughing) oh this is good!  According to this a hundred twenty years ago the USS Discovery tested a "spore drive"! Chakotay: Spore drive?  Next thing you're gonna tell me they powered it using mushrooms. Janeway: (laughing) yes, and they used it to travel on a mycelial network! Paris: (laughing) Mycelial network?  Sounds like a bad holonovel. Torres: Sounds like whoever wrote it was on mushrooms. Janeway: And it says that the officer who navigated the ship through the mycelial network modified his DNA with DNA from a giant Tardigrade! Doctor: Very unlikely.  Ethical and safety issues aside Starfleet and the Federation strictly ban any form of genetic engineering. Janeway: And there's more.  There's also references to a ...

A Hypothetical Scene Alex Kurtzman: May I help you sir? Scotty: Aye lad. Trek, neat. Kurtzman: (hands Scotty Section 31 movie)  There you go, sir. Scotty: Thank you.  (watches movie for two minutes, shuts it off) Scotty: What in blazes is this? Kurtzman: Didn't you order Trek? Scotty: "Laddie, I was watching Trek many years before you were born, and I can tell you that whatever this is, it is definitely NOT Trek." Data: I believe I may be of some assistance.  Captain Scott is unaware of the existence of NuTrek. Scotty: NuTrek? Data: It is a shallow, poor quality writing, low effort Trek substitute now being served to the fandom. Scotty: You're not quite human, are you? Data: No, sir. I am an android.  Lieutenant Commander Data. Scotty: Synthetic Trek, synthetic commanders.