What the Spore Drive Meant for the Star Trek Franchise They also forbid anyone who knew of it from speaking, bringing it up ever again. Once the Discovery jumped into the future, taking the only drive with it, Starfleet abandoned the usage of the spore drive. Stamet is the only person who was able to use the spore drive. However, by the end of the season two finale, the use of the spore drive within the canon timeframe of Star Trek is over. It was for this reason that Stamet promised to do what he could to fix the problem. They were told that the spore drive was destroying their ecosystem. They used a device that was installed into the crew member, which helped the parasite communicate with Stamet. Stamet found this out when another crew member was infected by a parasite. The tardigrades that reside within the network were affected by the use of the spore drive the most. The infection that spreads is killing off the fungus that the spores come from. Stamet is told that the orb element of the spore drive is poisoning the network. It Hurt the Mycelial NetworkĮventually, the crew of the Discovery finds a way to talk to the beings that occupy the mycelial network. Stamets changes his own DNA so that he’s able to interface with the spore drive instead. The crew of the Discovery learns that the drive causes a large amount of stress on the animal. The drive requires the being to navigate by feel. They actually gave it a nickname, which was Ripper. However, rather than the micro-animal with the same name that’s found on Earth, the one used for the spore drive is giant. The jumps will use this living organism as a way to guide and navigate the starship that the spore drive is connected to.Īt first, the Discovery is using an animal called a tardigrade. In order for the spore drive to make it’s jumps, the use of a sentient being is needed. To the viewer, the starship using the spore drive will seem to disappear and then reappear somewhere else. The speed and distance of the spore drive are immeasurable. That is beyond impossible using a warp drive. The spore drive allowed the starship, the USS Glenn, to make a 90 light-year jump in just 1.3 seconds. Spore drives were able to make leaps through the galaxy that were impossible using anything else. Without the correct coordinates, you could miss your target location completely. Warp speed was fast, but this method was definitely faster. Using these spores were supposed to allow starships to travel in an instant, almost like a blink of the eye. When used in the spore drive, it’s supposed to work as a faster means of transportation. These mycelial spores belong to a class of fungus. The starship Discovery was able to cross into this multiverse and travel to what the show calls the Mirror Universe. It was later discovered that the network is actually a subspace that connects not just our universe, but multiple universes. It’s also learned in Star Trek: Discovery that the spores create a network called the mycelial network.
The characters Paul Stamets and Straal believed that when it comes down to the quantum level of everything, there’s no real difference between physics and biology. The theory is these spores are part of the foundation of the universe. The idea is that there are mycelium spores that can be found throughout the entire galaxy. In fact, there are many fans who believe the spore drive is utter nonsense that ruins the canon of Star Trek.
However, these spore drives were capable of achieving impossible feats. It was used by the Federation instead of warp drives, which were still installed on starships. This device is a kind of propulsion system that was used in the mid-23rd century. It’s usually shortened to simplify everything. The spore drive is actually called a displacement-activated spore hub drive. Let’s take a look at the spore drive and what happened to make Starfleet abandon it. This alien life-form infected a crew member of the Discovery and informed Paul Stamets that their mode of transportation was hurting their species. The spore drive was essentially abandoned by Starfleet because it was harming an ecosystem of aliens that lived within the mycelial network. One of the biggest questions being: why did Starfleet abandon the spore drive? Warning: Spoilers from Star Trek: Discovery below.
With the upcoming release of season three of Star Trek: Discovery, there are important questions circulating the spore drive.
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