It's all made up. Warp gonna do what warp gonna do.
Writers forgetting common technologies?
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I'd argue that the the (Bigger on the inside) tech isn't connected with Temporal technology, but more to do with SubSpace manipulation and trying to form a permanent connection between Regular Space and SubSpace.
Remember that episode where Tom Paris in a shuttle was sucked into the InterFold layer and it was a whole other realm.
Yup.
Subspace eddies episode.
It makes sense.
I was simply positing the possibility the TARDIS tech comes from the same era when Temporal technology was still in use and as such 'might' be connected to it, but ultimately, it doesn't need temporal technology to make it work.
Although, will we actually SEE this technology in action in Discovery?
::shrugs::
Well obviously but the Okuda’s tried to make it sense of it from TNG onwards. To me it’s more fun that way.
We know from season 2 that Discovery’s max speed is warp 7 TOS scale. It’ll be interesting to see if the retrofit has made it faster.
But did the writers?
Some of them did. They used to confer with them over the technical aspects of their stories. They were very hands on back then. Shame they’re retired now.
They really teched the tech.
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Seeing how the Discovery was retrofit from the inside and out, its very likely that its Warp speed received a massive upgrade as well.
The nacelles are completely different, and assuming they still have Warp coils in them, they are probably the 32nd century equivalent (along with the Warp core), as are Structural integrity fields and likely the hull itself was modified to replace Tritanium with 32nd century composite (neutronium, organic alloys and holographics - allowing the ship to reach whatever maximum Warp speed of all other 32nd century SF ships is - or very close to it).
Especially when they started making the new ships the fastest ever at warp 9.9998 or whatever so it could be faster than all other ships but not hit warp 10.
Yeah. You could tell by the end of the 24th century they were on the verge of rescaling it. Makes that warp 14 line in All Good Things more relevant
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My guess was always that it was related to the Warp Bubble technology from TNG since that also created a "bigger on the inside" effect before it destabilized.
STO did say it was a layer of substance inside the ship that creates the bigger on the inside ability.
If they can control that Warp Bubble and arbitrarily shape it, they can have the TARDIS style "Bigger on the Inside" effect that they want.
That would be incredibly cool, who knew that Wesley Crusher was the one to accidentally discover it.
It seems plausible.
I actually remembered about the subspace bubble Wesley made as part of his experiment when you mentioned the Voyager episode with subspace vortexes... but never thought to bring it into the discussion.
Again, if the hull materials of 29th to 32nd centuries contain extra-dimensional properties, they would be able to effectively project and maintain a certain configuration when assembled and intra-molecular bonds are established - essentially, the hull material would permeate subspace... and if it needs energy, be powered by it as well (ala what Voyager did with the shuttle's ram-scoops by harnessing the subspace eddies energy).
Don't think Starfleet would be that careless, and besides, I doubt the thing would require massive amounts of energy... it would be like taking sub-nanoscale amounts while the ship is in service.
And like I said, it may not need ANY energy whatsoever if the materials are built with extra-dimensional properties (aka, it exists in 2 dimensions).
are you sure about that? i mean we're talking about the organization that put large quantity of explosive rocks inside consoles after all :P
Explosive rocks?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but they didn't.
The plasma is what's running through the ships' EPS grid as far as I know. Its highly energetic, and there's bleedthrough/feedback that occurs when weapons hit shields and/or the hull (it might also be what's interfering with the plasma during weapons fire).
If you're referring to dilithium, that thing is down in engineering as far as I know... not in consoles.
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