List of Trek questions that keep us up at night

[Farscape One]

I've never played or seen STAR TREK ONLINE.

 

[Farscape One]

One question always stayed with me about transwarp conduits, wormholes, etc... why were they only limited to our galaxy? Why couldn't some go to the Andromeda galaxy, or even farther?

 

[Tomalak]

In 'Timeless', why did no one think of just using the slipstream drive for like two minutes at a time? And how did the liquid metal replica crew manage to perfect it?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

And how did the liquid metal replica crew manage to perfect it?

They didn't.

 

[Tomalak]

They didn't.

They did though. It was harmful to them because they didn't realise they weren't humanoids - it worked perfectly otherwise. Perhaps the fake crew met a species with technology the real Voyager never encountered?

 

[captainkirk]

They did though. It was harmful to them because they didn't realise they weren't humanoids - it worked perfectly otherwise. Perhaps the fake crew met a species with technology the real Voyager never encountered?

It wasn't slipstream. It was some kind of enhanced warp drive that allowed them to go much faster. For all we know it was the same method used by the Equinox crew.

 

[Tomalak]

It wasn't slipstream. It was some kind of enhanced warp drive that allowed them to go much faster. For all we know it was the same method used by the Equinox crew.

Right, I forgot the precise technobabble. I wouldn't have thought it was the Equinox technique because they weren't getting attacked by little aliens.

I wonder why the real Voyager crew weren't able to come up with the same thing?

 

[at Quark's]

One question always stayed with me about transwarp conduits, wormholes, etc... why were they only limited to our galaxy? Why couldn't some go to the Andromeda galaxy, or even farther?

I wondered about this recently, when re-watching VOY's Eye of the Needle. There, we have the following dialogue:

TUVOK: There is, of course, a seventy five percent chance the wormhole will not lead to the Alpha Quadrant.
JANEWAY: Very true. But you can also say there's a one in four chance it will. Those aren't bad odds. Any analysis yet, Ensign?

Made me curious whether that 75% stemmed from a simplistic 'it must lead to one of the four quadrants of this galaxy and all are equally probable', or that something more advanced was involved to arrive to that estimation.

 

[UnknownSample]

There would be a very high chance any wormhole would lead to empty intergalactic space.
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I think "slipstream" is just a word applied to any drive breaking warp 10, but I'm not at all sure.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

They did though. It was harmful to them because they didn't realise they weren't humanoids - it worked perfectly otherwise. Perhaps the fake crew met a species with technology the real Voyager never encountered?

There is no evidence that the 'silver blood' crew ever experienced their own version of "Timeless" or even got their hands on slipstream technology. IIRC, they disintegrated before that could occur.

Edit: what @captainkirk said.

 

[Crazyewok]

Unsure. The cat got better scenes.

I am suprised the bog never used small 4 legged animals would make good repair drones.
Plus imagine fighting borg drones in close confines and a dozen assimlated cats jump out with assimalation tubes instead of claws.

 

[captainkirk]

Right, I forgot the precise technobabble. I wouldn't have thought it was the Equinox technique because they weren't getting attacked by little aliens.

I wonder why the real Voyager crew weren't able to come up with the same thing?

Well I was just throwing that out there as Equinox was only a few episodes after Course: Oblivion. I doubt the Voyager crew would do anything like that and like you said they weren't under constant attack.

 

[Crazyewok]

What happens when a Borg meets up with a Gorn?
Or worse...a Pakled?

We are borg, we are strong.

We assimilate things that make us go.

 

[captainkirk]

We are borg, we are strong.

We assimilate things that make us go.

Maybe this is a better method for causing the Borg to self-destruct than that weird unsolvable puzzle.

 

[Crazyewok]

I wonder how easily one can access ultra hardcore inter-species porn in the future?

2 Klingons one cup?

Ferangi on Nausican?

Weyon does Cardassia?

 

[UnknownSample]

Weyoun does Cardassia?

He sure did.

 

[The Wormhole]

I wonder why the real Voyager crew weren't able to come up with the same thing?

They probably just never thought it up.

 

[Prax]

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The real crew were too busy wasting their time with the Slipstream® drive they got from that crazy guy. If they had never come across it, maybe they would have developed something more practical on their own.

My question is, what were the silver blood crew breathing on their ship?

 

[Neetza512]

Not necessarily. Maybe humans and Vulcans have different definitions of "bad smell." Hmm, they should have played with that on Enterprise, have Trip ask T'Pol why she never complains about how Klingons smell like she does humans, and have her respond that Klingons smell preferable.

Miles O'Brian did say that he thought Worf smelled musky and peaty, not really a bad smell. So maybe Klingons wouldn't have smelled bad to Vulcans. Humans smell like sweat and ass.

 

[Neetza512]

How far, in terms of distance, did Troi's telepathic abilities extend? We know that distance dampened telepathy in Betezoids (Tin Man) but she could sense Riker's mood when she was aboard the ship and he was on a planet (The Royale). Earth's moon is about 300,000 miles away. If we assume the ship orbits about the same distance away as the moon, that means Troi can read Riker from a considerable distance. Or maybe having been romantically involved with someone expands her "range"?