Paul Stamets (MU)

Paul Stamets was an antagonist introduced in the Star Trek: Discovery episode The Wolf Inside.

Like his primary universe counterpart, he was portrayed by Anthony Rapp.

Stamets served in the Terran Empire's Starfleet. Stamets was a astromycologist. In the 2250s he worked to develop a new means of propulsion to enable the Empire to conquer even more territory.

Through his work, Stamets also discovered the mycelial plane and began working to manipulate it for his own purposes. His actions caused corruption to begin spreading through the network, threatening the very structure of the network itself. Stamets eventually became trapped in the network, with his physical body falling in to a coma. After becoming trapped, his physical body was kept in a medical bay on board the Emperor's flagship ISS Charon.

After his primary counterpart also became trapped in the network, Stamets went to greet his counterpart. Stamets tried to get his counterpart to help him correct the corruption in the network, however the primary universe version of Dr. Culber warned his counterpart not to cooperate, and explained that Stamets was responsible for the corruption.

Stamets returned to the physical universe at the same time as his counterpart, waking up at about the same time.