in fact it WAS the original effect: they went to the old TOS original tapes to recover and use itWhen Scotty rematerialized in Relics, the effect was close to the TOS one, and it even had a similar sound
Spoilers Star Trek: Prodigy 1x05 - "Terror Firma"
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Those Sydney-class transports clearly didn't get top-shelf equipment.
I didn't know that meant being unable to use transporters. I sit corrected.
I didn't know that meant being unable to use transporters. I sit corrected.
I was thinking about the lack of transporters last night, and it occurred to me that they might just not be accessible by Janeway, just like she couldn’t use the phasers against the planets vines/tendrils, and the rescue of Gwyn wasn’t a good time for on the job training.
Janeway may be a hologram, but she is still Janeway. Why wouldn't a veteran Starfleet captain - hologram or no - have full access to every system on the ship, transporters and phasers included?
The program is a training hologram, and she explains when she’s introduced that she’s designed to assist a crew, and only has access to the lower level functions of the ship.
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Because the hologram has limited accessibility. Which makes perfect sense.
Save for not using the transporter, a VERY good episode.
Perhaps some could come around to the idea the ship could be named Protostar without literally housing a protostar?
I liked the DISCO opener but still thought this was better.
Perhaps some could come around to the idea the ship could be named Protostar without literally housing a protostar?
I liked the DISCO opener but still thought this was better.
this was way better.
Because she's not Janeway.
It added some much needed characterization to the father. It shows he does care about his daughter, where I had assumed he was purely using her. Sure, he goes for the ship instead of her and gets hoisted by his own petard, but he obviously struggled with that decision.
Even a ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) consumes some amount of fuel when idling.
And the ProtoStar is a brand new Reactor Type.
The R&D folks probably haven't figured out ways to lower it's idle power consumption yet.
My guess is it's either on or off with no in between, and when it is off it cannot supply power to contain itself, but when it's on everything has to be used or it will overload everything.
I'm sure the R&D folks are working on it =D and not letting it be such a blunt reactor and to give it more finesse in operating states.
That and I suspect the Protostar core CAN in fact resupply power to the ship to replenish previously drained energy supplies once the order is given to engage it.
The energy of the Protostar was illustrated to fill the ship and the bridge lights turned all blue-ish as a result... so its possible the ship was 'recharged' at the point just prior to jumping away.
As for the containment field sucking up all the power... eh... its a prototype effectively. Efficiency has room to be improved substantially and over the course of very small time frame... so its possible that if the ship goes back to UFP, the kids will officially become SF cadets and the proto core containment upgraded so it can effectively run indefinitelly off the Protostar itself, or that it doesn't suck up as much power anymore.
We'll see what happens.
I already speculated on how long I think the operational capabilities are over here in the Trek Tech thread.
So we can veer off over to that thread if you want to continue talking about it.
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I didn't know that meant being unable to use transporters. I sit corrected.
The bad guys beamed down, though.
I assume this means the prodigy crew just doesn't know about transporters but will learn eventually.
It makes sense, I think.
With Hologram Janeway limited to lower level functions, she hadn’t gotten to transporter training before they got to this planet, who’s Thoron radiation made it a less than ideal planet on which to begin transporter training. Then, by the time they needed to rescue Gwyn they had a time sensitive situation with a crew member’s life at stake, plus the radiation, so an even worse time to have any of the other kids start to try transporting.
Start with some inanimate cargo, instead of living friends.
With Hologram Janeway limited to lower level functions, she hadn’t gotten to transporter training before they got to this planet, who’s Thoron radiation made it a less than ideal planet on which to begin transporter training. Then, by the time they needed to rescue Gwyn they had a time sensitive situation with a crew member’s life at stake, plus the radiation, so an even worse time to have any of the other kids start to try transporting.
Start with some inanimate cargo, instead of living friends.
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Kind of how early transporter pads in the early-to-mid 22nd century tended to send only inanimate objects and supplies and tested and transported human subjects only when it was felt to be necessary.
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