Imagine a microscopic web that spans the entire cosmos. An intergalactic ecosystem. An infinite number of roads leading everywhere."
– Gabriel Lorca, 2256 ("Context Is for Kings")
The displacement-activated spore hub drive, commonly shortened to spore drive or s-drive, was an organic propulsion system the Federation experimented with during the 2240s and 2250s. The technology used mycelium spores harvested from Prototaxites stellaviatori to jump or leap across the mycelial network. During such jumps, the ships were not in normal space but in the mycelial plane. (DIS: "Context Is for Kings", "Choose Your Pain")
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Origins and concept
Program history
Super-mycelial reactor
Technical details
Background information
Origins and concept Edit
Mycelium spores
P. stellaviatori mycelium spores, key to the drive technology
The spore drive was based on the ideas of two colleagues and friends, Paul Stamets and Straal, who had been working on the concept since 2244. They were eager to get to the "veins and muscles" that held the galaxy together.
Their research was based on the insight that at a quantum level, there was no difference between biology or physics, and specifically that spores were not only the progenitors of panspermia, but also the building blocks of energy across the universe. This allowed Stamets and Straal to approach physics as biology. As such, the equations involved were reminiscent of both quantum astrophysics and biochemistry.
– Gabriel Lorca, 2256 ("Context Is for Kings")
The displacement-activated spore hub drive, commonly shortened to spore drive or s-drive, was an organic propulsion system the Federation experimented with during the 2240s and 2250s. The technology used mycelium spores harvested from Prototaxites stellaviatori to jump or leap across the mycelial network. During such jumps, the ships were not in normal space but in the mycelial plane. (DIS: "Context Is for Kings", "Choose Your Pain")
Contentshide
Origins and concept
Program history
Super-mycelial reactor
Technical details
Background information
Origins and concept Edit
Mycelium spores
P. stellaviatori mycelium spores, key to the drive technology
The spore drive was based on the ideas of two colleagues and friends, Paul Stamets and Straal, who had been working on the concept since 2244. They were eager to get to the "veins and muscles" that held the galaxy together.
Their research was based on the insight that at a quantum level, there was no difference between biology or physics, and specifically that spores were not only the progenitors of panspermia, but also the building blocks of energy across the universe. This allowed Stamets and Straal to approach physics as biology. As such, the equations involved were reminiscent of both quantum astrophysics and biochemistry.
by Captain Lorca April 3, 2019
Get the spore drivemug. by dfntud January 17, 2011
Get the redneck drive bymug. Friend 1: Dude, this retard was driving all willy neely like. Pissed me off.
Friend : Dude, he was jerk driving.
Friend : Dude, he was jerk driving.
by Lala5456 December 10, 2010
Get the Jerk Drivingmug. by TowerLadda71 December 20, 2014
Get the Thirsty-Drivemug. A person whom farts near others and then simply walks on or out of the room, leaving the stinky aftermath and avoiding blame.
Can be called a DBF for short.
Can be called a DBF for short.
Adam: Umm bye guys, got to go.
*leaves*
Jake: *sniff* Aww man, was that you?
Dave: Nah it was Adam, he's such a Drive-By-Farter.
*leaves*
Jake: *sniff* Aww man, was that you?
Dave: Nah it was Adam, he's such a Drive-By-Farter.
by doodledotcom123 November 2, 2012
Get the Drive-By-Fartermug. To vomit kneeling in front of the bowl of a toilette. Because you are holding the bowl with your hands, it looks like you are driving a bus.
by Doppelstern April 8, 2009
Get the Driving the busmug. 1. Basketball: to dribble the ball towards the basket.
2. Derived from 1: To hit on a girl aggressively.
2. Derived from 1: To hit on a girl aggressively.
1. "That balla wanted to drive the rack, he was calling for the rock all game."
2. "I went to drive the rack on that broad, but she was having none of it."
2. "I went to drive the rack on that broad, but she was having none of it."
by Christian Zeigler December 26, 2008
Get the drive the rackmug.