A Fan Theory

[jctechwizard]

This is my first post

A fan theory:

The technology used by the Caretaker to transport USS Voyager, USS Equinox, Dreadnaught, etc. to the Delta Quadrant utilized the mycelial network. The Nacene (the Caretaker and Suspiria) are described as a sporocystian life form. A sporocyst is a structure in Ascosphaera fungi. The important words here are ‘spore’ and ‘fungi’. USS Discovery’s spore drive used spores of a species of fungus, Prototaxitiies Stellaviatori to travel vast distances near instantaneously using the mycelial network. Also, in “Cold Fire” it is established that Suspiria naturally lives in a subspace layer called Exosia. Theory: Exosia is actually the Nacene’s name for the mycelial plane, the subspace layer in which the mycelial network exists.

What are your thoughts?

 

[NCC-73515]

That was a possible connection when Disco came out. I also think the indescribable dimension with life unlike we know it that Manheim described in We'll always have Paris might be the mycelial plane.

 

[somebuddyX]

I think Caretaker just uses a big crap space wave to push the ship somewhere. As far as I know the Discovery just blips in and out. Voyager also had transwarp and slipstream and a lot of other nonsense. TNG had whatever the Cytherians were doing. There's probably dozens of modes of propulsion all independent from one another.

 

[jctechwizard]

That was a possible connection when Disco came out. I also think the indescribable dimension with life unlike we know it that Manheim described in We'll always have Paris might be the mycelial plane.

Interesting. Never thought about the possible connection to Dr. Manheim in We'll Always Have Paris".

I think Caretaker just uses a big crap space wave to push the ship somewhere. As far as I know the Discovery just blips in and out. Voyager also had transwarp and slipstream and a lot of other nonsense. TNG had whatever the Cytherians were doing. There's probably dozens of modes of propulsion all independent from one another.

I was thinking that the Caretaker's "space wave" pushed the ship across the mycelial network. Voyager (and others) did make the jump near instantaneously.

 

[DonIago]

I think it begs the larger question of whether a ship not designed to utilize the mycelial network can be forced to do so. My instincts say no, but now I'm speculating about something that's pure fantasy to begin with.

 

[jctechwizard]

I think it begs the larger question of whether a ship not designed to utilize the mycelial network can be forced to do so. My instincts say no, but now I'm speculating about something that's pure fantasy to begin with.

I would think it probably could, just come out unscathed. Voyager took a fair amount of damage and lost perhaps a score of crewmembers in the transit to the Delta Quadrant

I would think it probably could, just come out unscathed. Voyager took a fair amount of damage and lost perhaps a score of crewmembers in the transit to the Delta Quadrant

* just NOT come out unscathed