Star Trek: Discovery’s Spore Drive - How It Works & Why It’s Controversial

Star Trek: Discovery introduced the spore drive.

Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Star Trek: Discovery introduced one of the franchise's most unique forms of propulsion in the USS Discovery's spore drive. Since its introduction in Star Trek: Discovery season 1, the displacement-activated spore hub drive, or spore drive for short, is one of the things that made Discovery a different kind of Star Trek show than any that had come before it.

Conceptualized by Commander Paul Stamets and his colleague Straal , the experimental spore technology allows the USS Discovery to jump through the microscopic mycelial network. The mycelial network exists as a region of subspace that spans the entire multiverse and can be accessed using the spores of a particular species of fungus.

The spore drive was also controversial with Star Trek fans in real life as Star Trek: Discovery 's advanced technology was impossible to reconcile with the 23rd-century canon of Star Trek: The Original Series .

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