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You should have seen what happened the last time it had contact with another.

After careful deliberation, you're forgiven.

Yeah, it was doomed to be restricted to one ship from day one, with arguably increasingly contrived excuses as time passed (down to exterminating poor Book's entire species!).

It's a damn shame we never got to see the JahSepp again.

Honestly, I'll defend the ideas underpinning the spore drive all day. Mycelial networks are deeply weird IRL, and the idea of "what if there was one that grows through subspace" is an interesting extrapolation from that. "Physics as biology" is a pretty fresh and interesting idea for the franchise to explore (and I'm totally here for the argument that they didn't explore it enough).

I don't think I can agree with that - plenty of Lower Decks episodes seemed reverse-engineered around whatever legacy actors they were able to book, and other legacy actors were just sort of...stuffed in there.

I would agree that they always crafted meaningful stories around that stuff, but that stuff is still pretty foundational - moreso than perhaps any show besides the third season of Picard, which I would enthusiastically hold up as an example of "fan service" (I don't love the term, but whatever, it fits) done very poorly.

I don't recall saying I liked the idea. That has no bearing on my interest in discerning what the hell you were talking about.

That interest has reached its limit, though.

Where's the comparison?

You seem to be taking the fact that they rejected a pitch for a show that you think is a bad idea as evidence that they don't know what they're doing, which is...truly dizzying.

Edit: Holy autocorrect.

That's an awfully strong reaction to a rejected pitch...

It's very unclear when, exactly, this pitch was made.

But heck, Jean-Luc Picard was 59 to Stewart's 47, so I'm not sure it matters.

Are they comfortable?