This thing called science...
Singularities generate power via tossing matter down them, at which point they shoot out a corresponding jet of hard radiation that can be turned into electrical power.
What was "The Burn" and what caused it?
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Singularities generate power via tossing matter down them, at which point they shoot out a corresponding jet of hard radiation that can be turned into electrical power.
And you know for a fact that that "jet of hard radiation" streaming out can't be focused by passing it through Dilithium?
Huh ... so when did you get back from the Star Trek 23rd century with all that information?
It's quite a luxury to expect scientific rigor from a setting that has faster-than-light travel and instant interstellar communications among many others. Especially when talking about a specific fictional piece of technology they use for said faster-than-light travel.
Yes, because Dilithium isn't needed to turn radiation into electrical energy.
Well, no. Assuming you mean those in black holes (because there's no such thing as a naked one), singularities do not emit anything because they're masked by the event horizon. It's the infalling matter near the horizon that emit the energy. Nothing could ever escape a singularity because, by definition, they are points of infinite curvature.
But a Warp Engine apparently doesn't run on Electrical Energy.
So tell me, how does a Romulan Warp Engine get its preferred source of plasma power?
Perhaps by passing it through some combination of a matter stream and then through a dilithium crystal to intensify the stream.
Seriously?
They were a small human population living on a world occupied by aliens. For all we know the dominant species was the aggressor.
Regardless, as I said in the other thread, Craft being a nice guy doesn't prove the V'Draysh were evil. Perfectly nice people serve as soldiers on both sides of wars all the time.
Let me also note that due to the setup used for the season (that the Federation was "going strong" right till The Burn - word of god from Kurtzman) along with the positive tone regarding the Federation they are trying to set, thematically it would make no sense if the story resulted in some culpability on the part of the Federation - or a modern remnant which was "evil."
The real Burn is acid reflux disease.
It was actually Quark himself (big ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey...) he had always envied his cousin Gaila for having his own moon so he bought out the entire Federation just to one-up him.
I think there is a possibility they will use The Burn as an allegory for climate change.
Incorrect on all counts.
Actually Warp Engines do run on Electrical Energy.
Plasma is just a transmission medium for that electrical energy.
I think you meant to say that Plasma is THE transmission medium, otherwise why not just hook up a warp engine to any old powerful transformer.
The reason plasma is used is because of the way IT Specifically reacts to the Warp Coils within the engines themselves, to create the necessary Warp Bubble around the starship.
The Romulans apparently use a Singularity to create the necessarily high amount of energy to run their Warp Engines. (one would guess this is inplace of a Matter/Antimatter reaction)
Until we learn otherwise, this doesn't preclude them from also using Dilithium to control and focus said energy.
And as said before upthread, the Romulans do mine Dilithium on the sister planet/moon to their homeworld. (per Star Trek: Nemesis)
One last note on this...
As per TOS "The Enterprise Incident"...
It was necessary for Scotty to hook up the stolen Romulan Cloaking Device to the Enterprise's DIlithium Chamber in order for it to properly function.
In other words, it needed the Dilithium to focus and intensify the energy into the device to get the desired results.
The Device was located in a separate and specific room on board the Romulan D7 close to their Engine Room when Kirk stole it, perhaps because it also needed to have their singularity energy stream pass through a dilithium chamber to create the desired effect.
One could surmise that the Romulans did the same thing in order for it to work on their ships.
The 'Singularity' provides the starting "spark" (so to speak) but Dilithium is needed to boost that spark to the intense levels to make things actually function.
The reason plasma is used is because of the way IT Specifically reacts to the Warp Coils within the engines themselves, to create the necessary Warp Bubble around the starship.
The Romulans apparently use a Singularity to create the necessarily high amount of energy to run their Warp Engines. (one would guess this is inplace of a Matter/Antimatter reaction)
Until we learn otherwise, this doesn't preclude them from also using Dilithium to control and focus said energy.
And as said before upthread, the Romulans do mine Dilithium on the sister planet/moon to their homeworld. (per Star Trek: Nemesis)
One last note on this...
As per TOS "The Enterprise Incident"...
It was necessary for Scotty to hook up the stolen Romulan Cloaking Device to the Enterprise's DIlithium Chamber in order for it to properly function.
In other words, it needed the Dilithium to focus and intensify the energy into the device to get the desired results.
The Device was located in a separate and specific room on board the Romulan D7 close to their Engine Room when Kirk stole it, perhaps because it also needed to have their singularity energy stream pass through a dilithium chamber to create the desired effect.
One could surmise that the Romulans did the same thing in order for it to work on their ships.
The 'Singularity' provides the starting "spark" (so to speak) but Dilithium is needed to boost that spark to the intense levels to make things actually function.
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Actually what Scotty said in the episode was that the Romulan cloaking device had to be hooked into their deflector shield grid to function properly. I assume that was so it would radiate whatever energy field was required to make the ship invisible. Yes it required power but I doubt the source of power was an issue.
has any damn polity ever got rid of stars or element of a flag because of a secession? America didn't change its flag when the Confeds left...
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You are mixing plasma coils up with warp coils.
Also it is not THE transmission medium, there are others that can be used, hence them using optical cable power transmission in some places.
The larger point is that there is no evidence that dilithium is not used with artificial singularities as part of the power generation in Romulans ships.
Quite so. Or, the needs of the plot will lead to changes, regardless of the demands of SCIENCE!That has never applied to Star Trek before.
