

I've been trying to make contact, but I haven't been able to transmit more than glimpses-images of my universe. I was losing hope until you navigated the mycelial highway for the first time. Mirror Stamets: From what I can tell, my physical form is also in a catatonic state.
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The next episode, 1x12 "Vaulting Ambition", gives us the full explanation when Stamets interacts with his Mirror Universe counterpart. Thus the conclusion Tilly reaches is that Stamets' earlier comment wasn't precognitive insight, but rather a connection to the Mirror Universe due to the effects of the Spore Drive connecting to the mycelial network. Or, theoretically, any dimension accessible via the network. A kind of internal transdimensional portal to this universe. The micropatterns are a symptom of mycelial travel, but what we hadn't considered then was that they could also be a neuronal link.

Tilly: Neurons firing nowhere, or so we thought at the time. Stamets began receiving glimpses of this alternate plane that preceded our physical arrival. But then we came here, to this universe, where I am captain. I-I didn't think much of it at first, save that it had a pretty sweet ring to it. In 1x11 "The Wolf Inside", Tilly remembers Stamets' comment and draws some conclusions.

Yes, although it's not the spore drive itself that caused the errorĪs we discover in 1x10 "Despite Yourself", the mycelial network that the spore drive uses is capable of linking to parallel universes, including the the Mirror Universe, in which Tilly is "Captain Tilly". My question is: Is Stamets calling Tilly 'Captain' an error due to the effects of the spore drive connection? (d) He actually is outside the timeline and was remembering something from another part of time/space. When he saw Tilly there was a social trigger to speak, and the conversation with the Captain tumbled out. (c) Stamets was thinking "I have to tell the captain " and that was at the front of his mind. (b) Stamets has a visual impairment due the spore drive or his other work, and for a moment genuinely believed he perceived the Captain. (a) Stamets has overheard Tilly's ambitions that she talked about whilst jogging through the corridor, and it is at the front of his mind, and slipped out whilst he was speaking. Now there are a few possible explanations of what is going on in this situation: In S1:E7 - Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad - we see that Stamets is not affected by the time-loop because he has some ability to be outside the timeline. In S1:E6 - Lethe Tilly has expressed an aspiration to be Captain one day. In Star Trek Discovery S1:E8 Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum, we see Lieutenant Stamets refer to Cadet Tilly as 'Captain'.
