Does that mean that the NCC-1701 never had a warp core, though? Put another way, are warp cores a retcon, or an in-universe technological development.
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Does that mean that the NCC-1701 never had a warp core, though? Put another way, are warp cores a retcon, or an in-universe technological development.
NX-01 had a warp core so 1701 almost certainly has one somewhere.
In Kirk's time it was referred to a Matter-Anti-Matter Reactor (IE that term was used a few times in TOS episodes).
or "warp core" is a term that encompasses more than just the tube (horizontal or vertical) placed at the center of the engine room.
Yeah... I really don't like that sort of thing, though I understand why they do it.
Clearly...
On Enterprise, it was never referred to anything but a warp reactor. Like a nuclear reactor on a submarine. The kind of language that's an effort to make everything seem a little more primitive.
Although further back to First Contact and the Phoenix, Cochrane does utter a line about bringing the warp core online.
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I think it's reasonable to assume that "Warp Reactor," "Matter-antimatter reaction assembly," and "Warp Core" are interchangeable terms that came into vogue at different times.
I agree its all the same thing, over time warp core just became more star trek
It is most definitely a retcon though.
I just wandered into this, presumably the suggestion seems to be a "warp core" in only one of several categories of device which can serve this purpose, others being "intermix chamber" "warp reactor" etc.
A couple of universes over, Kirk's Enterprise in the Kelvin Universe had a warp core.
As others have said, I think it's a generic term for what was called the "intermix chamber" in The Motion Picture.
As others have said, I think it's a generic term for what was called the "intermix chamber" in The Motion Picture.
My car has a motor!!!! Engines were not invented for it yetMotor and engine are frequently used interchangeably. No reason the same cannot apply to “warp core” and equivalents. Save perhaps an incessant need to quibble—nah. Trek fans are way too easygoing for that.
And yet, you knew what I meant.
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