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Poll Greatest invention in Trek?

Which is the Trekverse's greatest invention?

  • Warp drive

    Votes: 13 27.1%
  • Transporter

    Votes: 6 12.5%
  • Replicator

    Votes: 14 29.2%
  • Holodeck

    Votes: 3 6.3%
  • Spore Drive

    Votes: 2 4.2%
  • Other

    Votes: 10 20.8%

  • Total voters
    48
The Holodeck is also largely dependent on replicators.

The holodeck is a strange thing... sometimes it replicates things and you take them away with you when you leave (like when Wesley leaves and he remains wet), sometimes it's a projection of photon and forcefield and disappears the instant it passes the border. Like when Picard throws a book and we see it vanish instantly.

However, other than plot convenience, there doesn't seem to be any definite rule about it.
 
Transporter.:adore: It is what sets Star Trek apart from Lost In Space, Battlestar Galactica , Space:1999, Star Wars, etc.
 
Transporter.:adore: It is what sets Star Trek apart from Lost In Space, Battlestar Galactica , Space:1999, Star Wars, etc.

But not "The Fly"...

Or StarGate (series I, II and III)

Or Doctor Who, Earth: Final Conflict, Buck Rogers... etc.
 
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I wanted to say the holodeck, but since none of it is real, it's ultimately rather pointless. The replicator would let you make cool stuff to use in real life, though.

Kor
 
I wanted to say the holodeck, but since none of it is real, it's ultimately rather pointless. The replicator would let you make cool stuff to use in real life, though.

Kor

Well, the holodeck is kinda like tv and/or video games, except much better.
 
For me, it would be artificial/anti-gravity.

Or energy storage. My portable devices would love to draw upon the stored energy of a hand phaser.
 
The tricorder. With the proper specification the device can analyze the human anatomy, scientific elements, and even engineering assemblies and circuitry. It's an instrumental problem solver.
 
Soran's star extinguisher is even better!;)


Of course, it pales in comparison to RED MATTER, that can turn anything into a black hole!
You’re thinking like a Klingon; thinking it as a weapon. It’s far greater than that.
 
What is the greatest in-universe invention of the Trekverse?

Warp drive gets you to other worlds.

Yeah, that one's the best. The practicality of any sustained space travel, even to the next planet in the same solar system, is 0.00% without it.

Transporter gets you anywhere on a world, and with mods works as a cure-all, has a range of up to 100 light years (with risk) or can beam you to alternate universes.

Doesn't it turn the matter into energy and deposits a copy? At least "Quark" made fun with who the real clone isn't... :D

Replicator feeds you whatever you want to eat or wear or any gizmo you can imagine, forever

Except photon torpedoes. :D It's definitely the best creation, even in making Synthahol - a liquid that, in TNG, has the flavor of real booze but doesn't intoxicate. But by VOY they get 7 drunk with it, and referenced by name (in "Timeless")

Holodeck gives you all your fantasies and if you ask the right thing, even creates life (or a simulation indistinguishable from life)

One can even boink in it, just don't ask about cleanup protocol... 90s Trek really wanted to bring it up... then they made the EMH who loved bragging about it to EMH mk II...

The Spore Drive gets you instantly anywhere in the universe. This galaxy, another galaxy, anywhere. With mods and some danger, gets you to other universes and future times.

Except Kirk's era abandons it and nobody acts like it existed so there must be a big problem with the magic mushroom mechanism...

Or is it something else?

The iPADD, naturally. :D
 
So? Besides he was obviously mandated to be a bouncer or he should definitely have been court-martialed for that. It's really hard to believe that there is world peace when people still behave like that. In fact, I have an even harder time believing in St world peace than in a moneyless society and that says something.
'World peace' does not mean absence of individuals fighting or having conflicts, e.g divorce still exists for a start.

Also, DS9, ENT and more showed that the idea humans have bettered themselves is a sham.

Humans are better than their present day ancestors, just as we consider ourselves to have improved compared to our how ancestors behaved 300 years ago in our culture. Improvement does not mean perfection
 
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