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You missed the time that Geordi grows a hilarious beard.

37. Paul Stamets
Badger badger badger badger MUSHROOM MUSHROOM.

If theres a single thing in Star Trek Discovery I hate the most, its the idea of the Force. And lets not dance around the issue, we all know the Mycelial Network concept is just the Force. Can I just ask why they decided its interdimensional mushrooms that connect all life? What do mushrooms have to do with anything? Bacteria would at least make more sense. Very odd.

Anyway, looking at Stamets independently of that, hes a serviceable engineer character. Insufferable genius pressed into using his powers for war, got it. Scientist who doesnt have the resources he needs to do his work, so he uses himself as a test subject, got it. Hes got some decent interactions with Burnham and Tilly (both are at their best when theyre supporting someone else), and hes downright tolerable when Lorca pushes him into stuff. The plotline he has where his boyfriend comes back to life and dumps him is like a little heartbeat of personal interestingness in a show about a time-traveling angel trying to blow up the universe.

Actually, does he count as the ships engineer? Im honestly not sure, theres also that grimy woman they rescue. What an awkward dynamic that is. I get that theres supposed to be this opposition between them where Pauls technology is clean and futuristic and hers is mechanical and greasy, but her whole aesthetic is not Star Trek-y at all. Then again, neither is the Force, so shows what I know.

Lastly, I just want to say that if the interdimensional mushroom psychic ghost that infects Tilly doesnt know what crying is, and thats how Burnham determines its a ghost and not a hallucination, then it should also not know to describe Stamets as whiter than Lorca.

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Started: July 6, 2005