In the latest Star Trek, the starship Discovery runs on spores harvested from shrooms grown onboard. Despite being set in the Captain Pike era, no one ever noticed this up to then :]
Why it's almost as if Star Trek is fiction and the "canon" of a franchise spanning over fifty years of television, film and books has always been fluid and arbitrary.
> Why it's almost as if Star Trek is fiction and the "canon" of a franchise spanning over fifty years of television, film and books has always been fluid and arbitrary.
Despite it being fiction, you cannot arbitrarily mess with the basic mythology and still keep what makes the thing magical.
