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Spoilers 31st/32nd Century Ships Revealed
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I assume the phaser strips are made from programmable matter and just pop up when needed. Or perhaps ships can generate a 'phaser bubble' of sorts that wraps around the hull like polarised Hull plating allowing phaser bursts without the need for a physical placement.
I'm quite disappointed that future ships use the same phasers and quantum torpedoes. You'd think something new would have come along. The Vengeance in the Kelvin Universe had arcing phasers and (unseen, but designed by ILM) neutron torpedoes.
My theory is that the temporal accords banned a ton of weaponry and everyone was reduced to resorting to Quantum and Photon torpedoes and phasers etc.. Kinda like how the Khitomer accords banned subspace weaponry. Also the Quantum and Photon torpedoes may be far more advanced. Maybe they have done away with things like physical casing and have a energy warhead contained in a forcefield.
From a production point of view I can understand why the writers avoided inventing some new type of torpedo. Quantum and Photon torpedoes were basically indistinguishable apart from colours and Chroniton and Transphasic torpedoes are too overpowered and wanky. It gets to the point where you're just given a different name to the same thing, or making tech so outlandlshly powerful that they're basically magic and you need to make even more outlandish magic to counteract it.
We still don't have a good idea of the subjective or objective time the time wars spanned. Perhaps they go back all the way to the 26th century or so, and a key maneuver in the wars was to cheat by getting better weapons from the future? Those would have to go, and to be on the safe side, only guns very obviously dating back to the 25th century could be legally flaunted. Or, you know, everybody would tear their copy of the accords and whip out the guns they had been illegally carrying.
Timo Saloniemi
Timo Saloniemi
That''s pretty much my view. I do want Trek to advance in some measure but we get awfully close to magic and magic fighting magic. And, well, I'm not interested in magic.
Maybe post Burn, primitive tech is easier to get working and maintain?
It usually is. And a lot of people may have more access to it to create continently and reliability. It might be as simple as people just want a familiar tech they can utilize.
Perhaps torpedo technology is similar to shooting bullets. We get all sorts of new versions of guns in the real world but aside from a few alternatives (taser, gauss cannon), the underlying principle remains the same.
Also in terms of weapons tech, in STO the latest update introduced two versions of the 32c. Federation phasers - a green standard phaser, and a more cyan phaser refit. This coincides with the introduction of the Crossfield-class refit. Perhaps Federation ships of 3188 are equipped with the green phasers, whereas Discovery's refit earned them the cyan phasers?
Also in terms of weapons tech, in STO the latest update introduced two versions of the 32c. Federation phasers - a green standard phaser, and a more cyan phaser refit. This coincides with the introduction of the Crossfield-class refit. Perhaps Federation ships of 3188 are equipped with the green phasers, whereas Discovery's refit earned them the cyan phasers?
Don't we know they went back to at least WWII?
Them going back to the "shit eating" replicators of the 22nd century would seem to indicate as much, though I'm not clear on exactly why that would be.
Are there differences besides colour?
Raw materials is raw materials. Matter has to come from somewhere.
Not according to TNG. They outright stated it was matter/energy conversion a'la the transporters.
So, where is the energy coming from? You need a material of some kind to do the conversion.
And where did that matter/energy come from?
You can't create matter/energy out of nowhere.
No, but there are many ways to make energy without using your waste...
And? It has to go somewhere so why not utilize it.
I still don't understand... if human waste is fully broken down into individual subatomic particles or even converted into pure energy then recombined into something completely different on a subatomic level, wouldn't it mean that it would inevitably lose its "human wasteness" in the process? Do its origins as poop somehow get imprinted onto the pure energy that gets preserved in a way? Are poop quarks different from food quarks? It's like saying a Lego brick that was a part of a firetruck set will stay a firetruck part forever even if I used it to build a rocket or a pirate ship.
You any need to go down to the atomic level. Converting humanoid waste into food is just Chemistry.
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