Showing posts with label Stamets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stamets. Show all posts

Thursday 16 December 2021

Captain Tilly







Captain TILLY :
Any sign of Osyraa? 


Nothing. 

Captain TILLY
How did she even find us? 

BOOK :
If she wants your spore drive, 
she’s probably been tracking it. 

DETMER
You mean scanning for our jump signature? 

BOOK
She’d have gotten a read on it back at Kwejian. 

Captain TILLY :
Why didn’t she fire on us? 

BOOK
It’s not like her. 
Whatever she’s got planned, I’m guessing 
she’ll need us whole to make it work. 

Captain TILLY :
Engineering, what’s the status on shields? 

STAMETS
30 more minutes before we can jump. 

BRYCE
Uh, we’re being hailed. 
It’s Osyraa. 

Captain TILLY :
Tell Stamets we need shields in ten. 
Put her through. 

BRYCE
On screen. 

Osyraa :
Where’s The Captain? 

Captain TILLY :
I’m acting Captain. 

Osyraa :
(laughs
The Kelpien left you in charge? 

Captain TILLY :
Damn straight. 
I’m kind of busy right now, 
so could you get to The Point? 


Osyraa :
You are not really captain material


Captain TILLY :
Oh, nice try. 
You don’t know anything about me. 

Osyraa :
Oh, sure I do. 

Everybody’s Friend, right? 
Good with people, team player. 

But deep down in that 
pretty little heart of yours, 
you know that you’re just a fraud

How am I doing? 


Captain TILLY :
Mm, a certain 19th-century Earth neurologist 
would say that you’ve just proven 
the idea of Projection 
You tell me I’m a fraud 
because deep down inside, 
You kind of feel like a fraud. 

It’s interesting
It’s not just a human 
defence mechanism — It’s Galactic

Osyraa :
Don’t test me, Red. 

Captain TILLY :
Okay, we’ll skip Freud. 
What do you want? 

Osyraa :
Your ship, Your Spore Drive 
and Your Crew as Leverage. 

Captain TILLY :
Oh, no. Not gonna happen. 
You will not take this ship 
or anyone on it. 
Not now. Not ever. No.

Monday 29 November 2021

The Fight





Thank you for doing this, sir. 
I know it didn't go the way that you hoped. 

Sir. We made a decision together, 
and we are living with it together. 
The fact that you reminded us of that 
and reminded us who we are to each other, that — 

I think that's Leadership.


Skeletor :
"I am NOT Nice.
But, uh... uh, tell me more about 
this "Christmas" [of which You Speak]....

Little Boy :
Well... it's a WONDERFUL Time of The Year!
Everyone has LOTS of Fun..!!

Skeletor :
"You mean, they get 
in FIGHTS...?"

Children :
No..!! [ YES.] 

Skeletor :
Fights are Fun..!! 
LIKE Fights!!

Little Girl :
....and you give each other presents...!!

Skeletor :
...and when you open them, 
they EXPLODE, right..??
[ Sometimes, yes…. The People, not The Gifts.]

Little Girl :
No!! They're NICE Gifts..!!

Skeletor :
"NICE!?! 
Doesn't sound like 
much FUN, to me....!"



Capt. Saru :
Uh, sit, please. 
I gave the rest of the crew the evening off to recuperate. 
But I asked all of you here 
because we work most closely 
and have not had a moment. 

In fact, we have lost quite a few. 

Almost every culture has a ritual 
that gathers its moments 
when it can, holds them dear

A time to take the measure of loved ones 
and what we have all accomplished together. 

( Silverware clanks ) 
Ah. Hmm. 
We made A Choice a millennium ago 
to follow Commander Burnham. 

I will never forget what I heard 
as I stood before each of you 
as you cast your vote. 

It was not unlike... 
A Small Prayer. 

I ask that we repeat that now. 

Evil Georgiou :
Must we really

Capt. Saru :
Yes, we must

Evil Georgiou :
( Scoffs ) 

Capt. Saru :
Lieutenant Detmer, 
Do you remember what you said? 

Lt. Detmer :
I said "Aye." 

I said, "Aye." 

Aye. 

Aye. 

Aye. 

Aye. 

Aye, sir. 

Aye. 

Aye. 

Aye. 

Evil Georgiou :
I never said "Aye." 
But... I'm here

Capt. Saru :
( Raise glass to propose a Toast — Clears throat
Aye

All
Aye


Linus
Is that droog-beetle pie? 
( Sniffs ) 
Mmm. 

Dr. Culber
What is going on between you two? 

Stammets :
I don't know. Nothing. 

Capt. Saru :
This reminds me of 
Harvest on Kaminar. 
Siranna and I would work from sunup until after sun fall, 
gathering and drying 
our seasonal kelp crops. 

Our Family would then dine together under the full moon. 

Evil Georgiou :
Kelp dries in the sun. 
An existential crisis. 
Is there some dessert? 

Dr. Culber
Is that a haiku

Evil Georgiou :
(impressed)
Yes

Dr. Culber
Emperor Georgiou. 
Feasting on the finest cuts. 
Snarfs cookies on the down-low —
I screwed up the last line. 

( All laugh ) 

Capt. Saru :
No matter. Hear! Hear! 

Haiku? Oh. 
I puked... upon... 

No. No. 

... the Tellarite ambassador 
once at Thanksgiving. 

( All groan ) 
Yeah. 
It was an actual diplomatic crisis. 


Okay, this is not 
what I want to hear at dinner. 
I mean, who raised you people? 

Get Detmer to do one. 


No. No, I don't want to... 

Come on. Try. Try. 

Detmer: 
No. Okay. 
( Clears throat ) 
( Detmer exhales ) 
The drones can't get Stamets' blood 
off the med bay floor... 
No. Wait. 

No one can clean Stamets' blood... 
( Laughing ) 
( Exhales ) 

Okay, I've got it. I've got it. 

No one can get Stamets' blood... 

Oh, shoot. No, wait. 
Wait, wait, wait. 
( Laughs ): 
Stamets' blood is so red. 

Lieutenant. 

No, I've got it now. I've got it. 
It's five, seven, five, right? 

I don't think this is... 

It's a poem. 

It's uncalled for. Officers. 
My life is not a joke for the dinner table. 

I wasn't trying to make a joke. 

I was back at work within a few hours of being injured.
 We wouldn't have gotten anywhere near Earth if it weren't for me. 

You're not the only one to move this ship. I'm The Pilot
We move it. 

I never said it was just me. 

Detmer: 
You think you're the only essential personnel on this vessel. 
Look at you. It's written all over you. 

Lieutenant. 

Detmer: 
You want to fly this monster? 
Actually be responsible for every single person every single day, 
or do you just want to be 
the when-he-feels-like-it superhero 
and have everybody kiss your ass? 

The reality is I'm the only one who can make the jumps. 

I flew us into the future
I landed this ship. 
I landed Discovery. 

Stamets
Yes, and we barely survived. 

Tilly
Oh, my God. Stop it! 
You guys are both acting 
like complete assholes

Ensign Tilly
Why don't we all just take a breath? 

Tilly :
You guys think you have 
the market cornered on pain
All of our sacrifices, 
all of our experiences 
and our work, 
it matters
The only way we're gonna through this is as a crew

Stamets :
I have work to do. 

( Door whooshes open ) 

You did land this monster. 
He should be thanking you. 

Keyla. Keyla? 
Uh... 
( Clears throat

Evil Georgiou
Well, at least the wine was good. 

( She gets up, taking it with her, because she’s evil. )

( Door whooshes open )

Thursday 14 February 2019

The Paul Stammets FictionSuit







#57

Dune author Franker Herbert on mushrooms

The Daily Grail delves into Frank Herbert's passion for mycology and how psilocybin mushrooms helped inspire Dune. 

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In his book Mycelium Running, legendary mycologist Paul Stamets notes that not only was Frank Herbert a talented and innovative mushroom enthusiast, but that the sci-fi author confessed to him that Dune took its inspiration from Herbert's experiences with magic mushrooms:

Frank went on to tell me that much of the premise of Dune — the magic spice (spores) that allowed the bending of space (tripping), the giant worms (maggots digesting mushrooms), the eyes of the Freman (the cerulean blue of Psilocybe mushrooms), the mysticism of the female spiritual warriors, the Bene Gesserits (influenced by tales of Maria Sabina and the sacred mushroom cults of Mexico) — came from his perception of the fungal life cycle, and his imagination was stimulated through his experiences with the use of magic mushrooms.

"Magic Mushrooms were the Inspiration for Frank Herbert's Science Fiction Epic 'Dune'"

Paul Stamets is a mycologist after whom the Star Trek: Discovery character Paul Stamets is named, along with his mirror universe counterpart

Furthermore, the concept of Spore drive was based on his work. Early on in the process of creating the series, Bryan Fuller showed his writer's room a TED Talk by Stamets, after which phone discussions followed. (After Trek: "Episode 2") 

He was a guest on After Trek: "Episode 2". On the episode, he talked about tuning in to Star Trek at age 12, and about how some magic mushrooms indeed help bend time and space. He claimed to be impressed with Anthony Rapp's performance, whom he rated as more handsome than himself.