Star Trek Discovery, finally a trailer

[Palanan]

Originally Posted by Lvl 2 Expert
Now I'm going to have to deal with a dark and edgy Star Trek series with black and gray morality. Not sure how that makes me feel.

If this is the direction the series is going, it’s just as well I didn’t watch past the first hour, or I’d start to feel betrayed.

The name of the series is Discovery, and that’s what I want it to be about—discovery, seeking out the unknown and braving the uncharted currents of space. I want it to be about discovering new worlds and new lifeforms, about the rigors and isolation of deep exploration, about heroism and endurance on the last and greatest frontier.

Or at least, that’s what I would expect from a name like that. Just as well....

Originally Posted by Darth Ultron
Lieutenant Paul Stamets is he’s an ‘astromycologist’ – a specialist in space fungus?

I think I've heard about this character before, who’s evidently an homage to a well-known mushroom cultivator.

“Astromycologist” would mean a researcher of interstellar fungus, but that’s a strange compound term to use, unless he's actually studying fungus that somehow grows in empty space. “Exomycologist” would be more in line with real-world terminology, since “exoplanets” are any planets outside our own solar system.

But of course no one says “exoplanets” in Star Trek; that would be strangely Earth-centric, creating an artificial distinction between the planets of one star system and all the other planets in the galaxy. In Starfleet, they just say planets—and by the same token, they should just say mycologist, being someone who studies fungi wherever they occur.

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