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Voyager can't talk shit because it runs on lab-grown living brain tissue

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.

returns to fluidic space to complain online about trek physical accuracy

"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.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x9G2i8XWEOI

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

Endurium

I too am still waiting for Starflight 3
My minecraft modding ass immediately thought of enderium (thermal foundation material)

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.
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- 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.
- So what I’m getting from your post is that everything they said is accurate
- 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.
- 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, etc, moving and forming bonds based on physics. It's why folding at home can simulate proteins.
  
  So anything DNA does can be simulated on a computer.

I feel like this place has gotten super mean-spirited lately. Maybe I'm just dropping in at the wrong times but I feel like 80% of the posts and comments I see are backhanded references or jabs at some part of the community and most of the rest is TOS stuff I don't understand that for all I know is also being nasty to somebody.

Does it really have to be like this? I'll leave that to you lot to figure out. Maybe a split is in order, or part of the commagazine will just vanish and never make another Trek joke again.

Also somecritter lemme know if the Disco-Risa/NonDisco-Risa split happens 'cause I kinda still wanna be in one of them. Or maybe both, as long as the fighting quits.

I think you're taking this a bit too seriously. Risa is a community for shit posting and jokes. We are allowed to make fun of ourselves here.
- I agree with MrPoopyButthole. We're unserious here but we tend to not put up with actual maliciousness.
Is only joke. Why you heff to be mad?
I have often found humans require the ability "make fun of themselves" in order to derive pleasure. For their species this is normal and you should not find it disconcerting.
- Their entire species is disconcerting and I wish I could get away from it.
You need to broaden your perspective like when Riker commanded a Klingon ship.

Fighting is fun. Embrace your inner Klingon and tell those Disco lover/haters how horribly wrong they are!

I haven't watched Star Trek since DS9 and refuse to watch anything made after Enterprise. Can someone please elaborate what in heavens name is going on this meme is talking about?

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- They were capturing extra-dimensional beings and using their corpses to power their starship so they could get home faster.
  
  Just say "Body Thetans," it's okay to admit that some Starfleeters are secretly Scientologists.
- So it sounds like Voyager is set in the Warhammer 40k universe then, since the Warp in that lore is a roiling storm of madness and joy of all the thrashing souls of everything sentient that ever lived (and sometimes not sentient, such as literal concepts of thought like hatred, and even forgotten gods of long dead ancient religions) since the beginning of time.
- Got a question for ye. What weighs more: an isogram of dilithium, or an isogram of mycelium? Take your time.
I can say that voyager was a lot of fun but I had a hard time with thing after that until lower decks. I tried enterprise, Picard and disco but I didn’t like either. I haven’t tried brave new worlds so I can’t say anything about that one.

I think it’s worth trying the new shows and seeing if any of them appeal to you. Lower decks is definitely a goofy cartoon but it has a ton of heart and feels like enterprise in a way most other shows don’t. Plus it does fan service well in a fun way.
- You owe it to yourself to try Strange New Worlds. It's just really good. It avoids most of the problems that Disco had (though it got better after season 1) and goes back to the episodic feel of past series, but without the ridiculous reset button that some series suffered from.
  
  Familiarity with TOS will provide you with extra enjoyment, but it's not a requirement, in my opinion.
- I'm trying Enterprise but I'm not loving it. I don't really connect with the characters except Porthos.
  
  But DS9 took a while to get into, so maybe it gets better.
You should get back into it, though. It's all pretty solid, except maybe some of Picard.

I did bounce off on DS9, too. That was a rough time for the franchise. Glad people enjoy it retroactively, though.
This is a double episode from Voyager where they come across another federation starship, the Equinox.

Since they don't break causality, they actually are.

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- Wait, no they both do. Normal warp does. FTL as a concept does.
  
  Hey, props to them for embracing it immediately and doing time travel nonsense right away.
- Yes, that's what I'm referring to. And a least as far as I remember, it does. It's not obvious and not addressed at all, but instantaneous travel between two points in space (if you don't take a shorcut through an addtional dimension, e.g. something we could call w if the three space dimension we're familiar with are x,y,z) is equivalent to time travel. The same is true for FTL travel, which Star Trek solves by warping space time, which also works.
  
  Perhaps the mycelial network is basically an extra space-time dimension, but at least the way I remember it being explained that wasn't really the case.
  
  But that's anyway a relatively technical points and Star Trek, as much as I love it, was never really about the technical things.