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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">For those who’ve seen the episode… Is the “mycelial plane” similar to “fluidic space” from VOYAGER, the extra-dimensional realm of Species 8472.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Sir’o’</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> then would be a type of
<b>tlhoQ</b> <i>conglomeration</i>? <b>pat</b> <i>system/grid</i>? Or even <b>DaH</b>
<i>array/bank</i> (of weapons, <i>etc</i>.)? Possibly a type of <b>qo’</b> <i>realm/world</i>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">--Voragh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Wil Czak<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">On Wed, 25 Oct 2017 06:58:19 -0700, Felix Malmenbeck <<a href="mailto:felixm@kth.se">felixm@kth.se</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">== SIr'o' ==<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">(noun) I'm fairly certain that this means "mycelium", in part because there's a pun (look up "mycelium" on Wikipedia and you'll find it quite quickly), and also because it works with all of the examples.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">However, the examples are also consistent with something like "network", "structure" or "plane"; perhaps by analogy it has come to mean both.
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">From episode 4 ("The Butcher's Knife ..."):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">"This ships spore drive travels on a network of mycelium that's spread across the entire galaxy."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">{qIb naQ velbogh 'atlhqam SIr'o' leng Dujvam SanmIr QuQ.</span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">}<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">"... when it exited from the mycelial plane."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">{... 'atlhqam SIr'o' mejDI'.}<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Based on the text of the Wikipedia article, "shiro" and "mycelium" are synonyms (both meaning a mass of hyphae). Given that, I suspect this might be a case of Okrand telling Lieven
"just transliterate the English word" rather than a pun. Thus, the whole phrase <'atlhqam SIr'o'> probably means "mycelium", with <'atlhqam> included to contextualize the transliterated English word (well, Japanese loan-word) "shiro". So it's "fungal shiro"
as opposed to some other kind of shiro (for example, the Ethiopian stew I just now learned about while googling "shiro").<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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