But Dilithium isn’t a power source. It’s something that regulates the flow of a matter/anti matter reaction.
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Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 3x03 - "People of Earth"
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Doesn't Earth have any decent optical or orbital telescopes in the future that can see Saturn or the outer solar system? If all else fails at least that's a good backup.
Shhh!
Occam’s razor. The easiest answer is in which a joint Trill with the last name Tal is in fact in possession of a symbiont named Tal. Dax was known as the Dax symbiont for centuries. Why would that change suddenly? It just seems a long reach at this point.
Sure it COULD be the case that it’s Dax, but it’s not particularly likely. AND we have a new show runner this season who seems to be more interested in blazing a new path while utilizing canon as it should: a well-woven tapestry to refer to.
Given Starfleets lack of circuit breakers in electronics I can't imagine them researching any other regulator if dilithium worked so well.
But humans don’t work like that. They are always trying to find something better.
Even if they did need Dilithium for their warp cores, you wouldn’t have them powering a colony as it would be disastrous if they failed. It could take the planet with them
Perhaps someone found a way for Dilithium to hold a charge for a longer period of time under the right circumstances?
And we just haven't seen or been told this in any episode yet.
Or maybe when Dilithium is "re-crystallized" it slightly changes it's natural characteristics of being inert.
It does seem that the DIlithium we see in Discovery's Storage Chamber has some kind of glow to it and it's handled very carefully by remote machines and placed in special containers.
The Dilithium we saw in the "Exchange" that folks were actually handling, didn't have the same glow.
And we just haven't seen or been told this in any episode yet.
Or maybe when Dilithium is "re-crystallized" it slightly changes it's natural characteristics of being inert.
It does seem that the DIlithium we see in Discovery's Storage Chamber has some kind of glow to it and it's handled very carefully by remote machines and placed in special containers.
The Dilithium we saw in the "Exchange" that folks were actually handling, didn't have the same glow.
There's a real problem with that description.
Scotty is actually handling the rough crystals in "Elaan of Troyius".
One would think that if they have some kind of massive power within them, it would be detrimental to any person's health when handling them.
And wearing them as a necklace would certainly be deadly after awhile.
I thought it always worked that the warp drive was providing the power to everything. With the crystals being there to control the matter/anti-matter flow. Never really saw them as an independent power source.
Needs of the plot.
I just watch the show,
Ever hear about Nuclear Power plants?
That's why I'm thinking that until the Dilithium Crystals are actually used in a manner in which the plasma is passed through them they are Inert.I just watch the show,
And afterward they retain a "charge" for an undetermined (to us) amount of time.
Which might also explain why they break down eventually, the "power charge" displaces the atoms in the crystals and leads to the fracturing.
Off topic, Burnham is much more like a real person with a full range of emotions. Three in a row where she actually smiles. Though of course the obligatory crying. Anyway I dislike her way less this year.
I wish they would drop her as somewhat-main-focus and just be an ensemble show. She's now #2 in a very fine crew with a noble purpose. Love the fact that Saru was obvious choice as captain, because . . . he was.
I wish they would drop her as somewhat-main-focus and just be an ensemble show. She's now #2 in a very fine crew with a noble purpose. Love the fact that Saru was obvious choice as captain, because . . . he was.
also this new? alien is very weird looking lol
Wasn't her species in the party scene in Star Trek Beyond?
really enjoyed this episode. solid 8. i like how they're developing this. I hope we see more of Book. There was an noticable lack of Culber and Reno, but it is a large cast. Everyone can't be everywhere. Glad to finally see Saru as captain, officially.
Easter Island. Not every environmental story is a happy ending
Outweighs the needs of the canon, or the fans
Honestly the abandonment of the offworld colonies in the solar system isn't that surprising to me.
Humans as depicted in Star Trek seem to have a very, very low reproduction rate. Very few characters manage to have children, even if they are middle aged. And if they do have kids they stop with 1-2 children. Sure humans live longer, but the human population should have been perpetually shrinking for centuries at this point. This probably led to the systematic abandonment of many offworld colonies due to sheer lack of interest.
It's a bigger question to be why a "research colony" on Titan would last for 1,000 years. What the hell is left to research on Titan after all that time?
Humans as depicted in Star Trek seem to have a very, very low reproduction rate. Very few characters manage to have children, even if they are middle aged. And if they do have kids they stop with 1-2 children. Sure humans live longer, but the human population should have been perpetually shrinking for centuries at this point. This probably led to the systematic abandonment of many offworld colonies due to sheer lack of interest.
It's a bigger question to be why a "research colony" on Titan would last for 1,000 years. What the hell is left to research on Titan after all that time?