Transcription: A side by side picture of Star Trek Strange New Worlds character Hemmer and The Next Generation character Geordi La Forge.

  • Stamets@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    1 year ago

    He never became Chief Engineer because Stamets was never an Engineering Officer. He’s in Science Division. The link is just flat out wrong. I suspect they might be using ‘chief’ engineer to mean that he’s the engineer we see the most of in Season 1. Also that link hasn’t been updated since Season 1.

      • Stamets@startrek.websiteEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        And what season is that from? I’m guessing Season 1 because Paul is not the Chief Engineer. It has been openly said that he’s not the chief engineer. So clearly plans changed somewhere between season 1 and 2. It doesn’t even make any sense for him to be chief engineer in the first place. He is an astromycologist.

        Edit: It was a production mistake. He isn’t Chief Engineer.

        A graphic seen in “Choose Your Pain” referred to Stamets as the chief engineer, but Ted Sullivan discarded this as a production mistake, quipping, “I’d say he’s the chief engineer of spore drive but not of engineering.” 

        Ted is a producer of the show.