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real actual plot summary

The USS Discovery is developing an experimental "Spore Drive" for near-instant travel based on tapping into an omnipresent galactic fungus. It turns out the secret to Spore Drive navigation is strapping a giant tardigrade that eats galactic fungus spores to the navigation system via painful nipple piercings.

I shit you not, that is the actual plot and I feel like maybe it was generated via Mad Libs?

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**green except tired** @green@awoo.space · 13 oct. 2017, 00:35

**green except tired** @green@awoo.space · 13 oct. 2017, 00:35

13 oct. 2017, 00:35

green except tired @green@awoo.space

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@aprrrl there's a face I'm making at the computer right now, I keep thinking about this and making that face again. it's... a very "WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK???" face.

**rak ✨ 🤖** @rak@cybre.space · 13 oct. 2017, 16:42

**rak ✨ 🤖** @rak@cybre.space · 13 oct. 2017, 16:42

13 oct. 2017, 16:42

rak ✨ 🤖 @rak@cybre.space

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@aprrrl it's absolutely ridiculous and I love it

**The research fairy** @bgcarlisle@scholar.social · 13 oct. 2017, 16:44

**The research fairy** @bgcarlisle@scholar.social · 13 oct. 2017, 16:44

13 oct. 2017, 16:44

The research fairy @bgcarlisle@scholar.social

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@aprrrl Also, I feel like they're channeling Voyager S05E26 and S06E01, "Equinox" pretty hard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinox_(Star_Trek:_Voyager)

**rak ✨ 🤖** @rak@cybre.space · 13 oct. 2017, 17:17

**rak ✨ 🤖** @rak@cybre.space · 13 oct. 2017, 17:17

13 oct. 2017, 17:17

rak ✨ 🤖 @rak@cybre.space

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@bgcarlisle @aprrrl the first part of the the tardigrade storyline also had a lot of similarities to "Devil in the Dark", which is fun

but like... with the special effects of 2017. RIP globby pizza rug monster.

**brennen** @brennen@mastodon.social · 13 oct. 2017, 17:26

**brennen** @brennen@mastodon.social · 13 oct. 2017, 17:26

13 oct. 2017, 17:26

brennen @brennen@mastodon.social

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@aprrrl i keep trying to get over how batshit dumb this is and i just can't quiiiite do it.

the giant tardigrade is kind of cool and i feel bad for it, but i just... i just feel like spore-drive tier ideas are for aggressively weird one-off episodes that everybody kind of agrees to forget about, like that time deanna troi had a space baby, not for "shit you now have to cope with as foundational structure for this continuity forever".