Star Trek: 11 Incredible New Technologies That Were Immediately ABANDONED

2. The Spore Drive

Spore Drive technology was an odd invention in Star Trek and not simply because of when it was introduced to the franchise. Though the issues of the timeline have been well covered at this stage, the logic behind Starfleet's apparent embracing and shunning of the propulsion system is confusing.

In the 23rd Century, it was an experiment with dangerous possibilities, as the crew of the ill-fated USS Glenn discovered. The supposed destruction of the USS Discovery put the project on ice for almost a millennia though, as we've said before, not informing Janeway was a bit of a dick move.

By the 32nd Century, though the project specifically had been shelved, the USS Discovery arrived almost one hundred years after warp drive had become allegedly obsolete. Honestly, did no one think to blow some dust off some classified folders? And. if that was indeed the case, the arrival of the Discovery should have heralded a new golden age of science for Starfleet. Instead, the ship had barely stopped spinning before Staments was informed the spore drive was once again being shelved, this time in favour of a Pathway Drive.

Its hard to be a mycologist in the universe, it seems.