Paul Stamets


 * You may be looking for Paul Stamets (hologram).

Paul Stamets was an astromycologist and Starfleet officer serving during the mid-23rd century.

History
Paul Stamets, together with Justin Straal, developed the spore drive technology and was a leading researcher investigating the Mycelial network. From 2256 to 2257 he served aboard USS Discovery under captains Gabriel Lorca, Philippa Georgiou, and Christoper Pike.

Stamets' scientific discoveries were used to end the Federation Klingon War of the mid-23rd century. Following the presumed destruction of Discovery in 2257, much of Stamets' life and research was classified by Starfleet Command.

Missions involved

 * (memories only): Stamets' research and personality are used to program a holographic recreation of him to aid the Alliance in the Mycelial network. While in the network, the hologram is merged with an essence of Stamets left behind from his spore jumps, leading to him becoming a more complete, sentient recreation of himself.
 * : Stamets appears as a simulacrum.

Other involvement

 * Spores (mentioned only): Doctor Bashir, while hanging upside-down from a bundle of alien mycelium, discusses the interrelation between various fungi with Ezri Dax and Kuumaarke on comms. Dax mentions Stamets' theory on a multidimensional mycelial network, which Bashir suggests has merits.