Original series and PNP

Starfleet didn’t try to remake Star Trek: DiscoverySpores are moving in Star Trek: The Original Series or Star Trek: The Next Generationera. Star Trek: Discovery The first season, set in 2256-2257, introduced the movement-activated spore drive, or spore drive for short. OpeningThe series “Big Idea” became a revolutionary controversial drive. which was a significant step forward in Star Trek technology. The spore drive allowed the USS Discovery to instantly pass through the mycelial network, so that the starship was essentially teleported to its destination. But why did Starfleet limit spore delivery to the USS Discovery?

Star Trek: DiscoveryThe Spore Engine was controversial because it was a revolutionary technology, far more advanced than anything seen in Star Trek: The Original Serieswhat happens a decade later. There is also no spore drive or instantaneous teleportation of the starship. Star Trek: The Next Generationera of the 24th century. Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 resolved these grievances making the spore drive part of the overall crisis surrounding the very existence of the USS Discovery. After Discovery merged with a 100,000-year-old sphere and its data was downloaded into Disco’s computers, the starship became the target of a rogue AI called Control. With the help of the sphere’s data, Control can become fully sentient and destroy all organic life in the galaxy.

Discovery’s spore drive technology was a closely guarded secret within Starfleet.

USS Discovery and the spore engine have been edited.

At the end Star Trek: Discovery In the second season, the combined forces of USS Discovery, USS Enterprise and their allies, including the Kelpiens, destroyed Control, Section 31’s genocidal threat assessment AI. However, in order to prevent another Control from coming online and becoming sentient, Discovery, its data sphere, and its spore drive had to be removed from the 23rd century. To protect the galaxy, Commander Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) led the USS Discovery on a permanent one-way journey 930 years into the 32nd century. This happened in the real world too Star Trek: Discovery”solution to the problem of a starship that is too technologically advanced for Star Trek23rd century. In the distant future, Discovery may install Star Trek the canon rather than challenging it.

When the USS Discovery was no more in the 23rd century, Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) and Lieutenant Spock (Ethan Peck) of the USS Enterprise informed Starfleet that Discovery had been destroyed and all hands were lost. Additionally, Spock edited the USS Discovery from Starfleet records to protect Michael Burnham, his adopted sister. USS Discovery’s spore drive technology has been edited. along with the starship’s records to prevent Starfleet from building another one. As time passed and Starfleet continued to rely on standard warp drive, knowledge of the Discovery ship and its spore drive was simply forgotten in the 24th century.

Starfleet knew that the Spore Disc was virtually impossible to use in practice.

Spore drive needs a navigator

The spore drive on the Discovery ship was also a dangerous technology that a specialized navigator was required to operate. IN Star Trek: Discovery In the first season, two Crossfield-class starships experimented with spore drive technology. The USS Glenn attempted to jump with spores through the mycelial network, killing everyone on board. However, a giant tardigrade was brought aboard Discovery, and the crew soon concluded that a tardigrade named Ripper could serve as a spore drive navigator. Unfortunately, the tardigrade was weakened by its interaction with the spore drive, so the Discovery crew released it back into space.

Lieutenant Paul Stamets (Anthony Rapp) injected himself with tardigrade DNA and enhanced himself to become the navigator of the USS Discovery’s spore drive. IN Star Trek: Discovery In season three, Cleveland Booker (David Ajala) recognized his Kwejian DNA, and his empathic abilities also allowed him to serve as the spore drive’s navigator. However, The genetic manipulation Stamets underwent is illegal in the United Federation of Planets.. Since tardigrade DNA was a requirement for safe interaction with the spore drive, it was logical for Starfleet to abandon this technology, which would be impossible to replicate on other starships.

Any research into the spore drive would be canceled by Starfleet

Section 31 does not want another control to be created.

Even if Starfleet scientists had access to the redacted files of the USS Discovery, Starfleet and Section 31 would never have allowed new research into spore drive technology. The combined tragedies of the USS Glenn and USS Discovery are enough to keep Starfleet from building another spore drive. Furthermore, Control was the AI ​​of Section 31, and organizing covert operations would prevent any attempt to create a spore disk that could somehow lead to the creation of another Control. Ultimately, the concept of instantly teleporting starships was abandoned in favor of Starfleet finding new ways to speed up standard warp travel.

Instead of a new spore drive or starship teleportation technology., Improving warp drives became a goal for Starfleet. IN Star Trek III: The Search for SpockUSS Excelsior was built with “The Great Experiment” transwarp drive. Unfortunately, after Scotty (James Doohan) sabotaged it, Starfleet also mothballed the transwarp drive. Trapped in the Delta Quadrant, the USS Voyager developed quantum steam technology to speed its journey home to Star Trek: Voyager. Star Trek: Marvel introduced Proto Drivewhich harnesses the power of a young star to make the USS Protostar the fastest starship of its time.

Star Trek’s 32nd Century also abandoned Discovery’s spore drive

Starfleet decided to adopt Pathway Drive

Ironically, Starfleet also decided to abandon spore drive technology in the 32nd century. Even though the USS Discovery was nearly a thousand years old when it arrived in 3189, Starfleet had no technology that could match Discovery’s spore drive. In fact, the Federation was fractured and isolated for almost a century after a disaster called the Burn destroyed the dilithium crystals on their starships and ended warp travel. With its ability to teleport using a spore drive, as well as a functional standard warp drive, USS Discovery became the backbone of 32nd century Starfleet and his primary weapon for mitigating crises threatening the Federation.

And yet, despite Commander Paul Stamets’ dream of replicating spore drives throughout 32nd Century Starfleet, the Federation went in a different direction. Possibly due to familiar problems with spore engines requiring navigators that could safely interact with the mycelial network. The Federation has decided that spore drives are inoperable.. Instead, the Federation developed a next-generation warp drive called the Pathway Drive, which was successfully tested on the USS Voyager-J and then installed throughout Starfleet. As the only starship equipped with a motion-activated spore drive, the USS Discovery remains unique in Starfleet at the end Star Trek: Discovery.