[TY]

Apparently, Paul Stamets of "Star Trek Discovery" is named after Paul Stamets in this article:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/paul-stamets-...

[vidarh]

The real Paul Stamets was interviewed on one of the episodes of After Trek as well.

[peteretep]

Thanks! That immediately jumped out at me and made me question if the article was meant to be satire or something