Not sure how accurate it is but given the figures I vaguely recall, this feels pretty accurate.

Realizing that the Discovery is longer than any of these ships really puts shit into perspective

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    @Stamets I thought naming the lead engineer after the foremost authority on mushrooms showed a remarkable amount of commitment to the utterly bonkers tech. There’s a ‘anything can happen day” quality to the show that really helped the 60 year old franchise.

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      Exactly! They knew what they were going for and they committed for the entire run it’s been on. Crazy, crazy tech? Absolutely. But I like it. I’ve always thought mushrooms were kinda cool. This just makes it cooler and Stamets enthusiasm for spores and mycelium is infectious to me.

      Also this is totally a minor quibble, but we actually have no fucking clue who the lead Engineer is on the Discovery. Seriously. There was an onscreen error in Season 1 that listed Stamets as the Chief Engineer but he wears a science officers badge. Jett Reno has a line in Season 2 about ‘The Chief’ sending her in to upgrade or shield something in Stamets lab. We’ve also never seen the warp core or even main engineering. Which is frankly fucking insane to me.

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        @Stamets Huh. I didn’t catch that, probably because I spent most of the first season gobsmacked by what they were doing. Had to pause for a second to confirm if you were actually Paul as I kinda used to know him when I worked at his publisher.

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          Nah. No relation to the character or the real life mycologist. Just a fan of both but especially of the first real gay representation we’ve gotten in Star Trek. It meant an enormous amount to me. Still does. Another reason I love the show.