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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 ...

Star Trek Timeline Bonus 2 The 32nd Century (3186-3191) Discovery 3186 Dr. Gabrielle Burnham repeatedly visits this year from 2236 and various points in 2258. Dr. Gabrielle Burnham ultimately ends up stranded on Essof IV in this year from 2258.  She is found by the inhabitants of Essof IV and transported to Ni'Var where she joins the Qowat Milat.   3187 Admiral Senna Tal dies, the Tal symbiont is joined to Grey 3188 Michael Burnham arrives in this year from 2258 Burnham meets and subsequently forms a relationship with Cleveland Booker Grey Tal dies, the Tal symbiont is joined to Adira, a human 3189 USS Discovery arrives from 2258 USS Discovery reunites with Michael Burnham USS Discovery makes contact with United Earth The artificial intelligence later known as Zora forms when the Sphere data begins to merge with USS Discovery's computers Sylvia Tilly is promoted to Lieutenant JG and made acting first officer of USS Discovery makes contact with Starfleet Command, receives ...

Strange New Worlds Season 3 Season Review Overall Impressions Uneven would be one word to describe this season, especially the first half, with a serious episode, followed by a lighthearted episode, followed by a serious episode, followed by a lighthearted episode, followed by a serious episode.  The back half of the season is more consistently serious (except of course for the Vulcan episode).  On the whole though, some pretty decent trek.  This season seemingly ended the Spock-Chapel arc and replaced it with the Spock-La'An arc, mainly to put Chapel with Roger Korby (originally established in TOS "What are Little Girls Made of". the season also expanded on and eventually wrapped up the Pike-Batel arc by adding a Batel-Gorn subplot first established in season 2's finale Hegemony, in this seasons finale New Life and New Civilizations.  As an audience member and having seen TOS, the foreknowledge that Pike will end up with Vina in TOS "The Menagerie part 2" m...

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.

Star Trek Timeline Bonus: The Temporal Cold War 12th Century AD The Tuterians build the first spheres and begin creating the Delphic Expanse 1944 General Vosk and the Na’Kuhl from 2862 travel to Earth and create an alternate timeline, in which they use Nazi technology to attempt to return to the 29th century, before their defeat.  Jamran Harnath sends Silik to 1944 to defeat Vosk and steal his time travel technology. 2004 Xindi from 2153 visit earth, attempt to alter earth history 2022 Romulan Temporal agent Sera from 2904 travels to earth at this time to kill Khan Noonien Singh, this creates an alternate timeline 2106 The Tuterians (sphere builders) begin manipulating the Xindi into altering human history 2150 Kal Dano travels to this year from the 27th century and hides the Tox Uthat in a cavern on Risa, intending to recover it in the 25th century.  During his next jump the timeships temporal core overloads, sending the ship to the mid 21st century, irradiating the...

Star Trek Strange New Worlds Season 3 Reaction: Episode 10 New Life and New Civilizations The season 3 finale.  We finally get the see the end of Captain Batels story.  Scotty gets "pranked" into dressing in dress uniform and kilt much like how Uhura got pranked in Children of the Comet.  I'm really liking the characterization of Scotty here and in recent episodes.  I'm liking seeing more Sam Kirk.  The eye stabbing out thing was a bit much.  Batels eyes lighting up looked a little like the Zetarian from TOS "The Lights of Zetar".  Also cool seeing more Kirk and Spock working together.  Spock calls Kirk "Jim" for first time.  The mind meld to allow the two ships to work together in perfect synchronicity was a pretty cool idea.  The Pike-Batel alternate future together, alternate timeline, at different stages, different time, seeing Pike and Batel's daughter growing up scene was definitely inspired by TNG's The Inner Light.  Also the...