We actually don't know if dilithium naturally forms on Earth of if Cochrane somehow artificially formed them (i.e. artificial diamonds made from carbon), we just know it naturally occurs on other planets like Rura Penthe. As for bypassing the speed of light, all Trek fans might be interested in this bit of news today: https://www.techtimes.com/articles/...erendipity-darpa-researchers-find-strange.htm . Universal translators explain the aliens and English (man that Google Translate still exists in the future huh!) and as for looking human, Preservers or Ancient humanoids from the Chase episode
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Cochrane may not even have had dilithium to regulate his first warp engine and flight. I don't think the blueprints for the Phoenix show dilithium of any kind as being aboard the ship, only mattter and anti-matter. He may have used a crude way to regulate the space warp reactions that only worked in such a primitive vessel and only at Warp 1. Dilithium was probably needed for higher velocities.
Still more fiction than science.
Monofilament blades are energy weapons...
Yes, an energy weapon.Lest we forget lightsabers.
You don't need Dilithium to regulate warp fields or create them in the first place.
Remember the first episode of Deep Space Nine? When O'Brien had the station create a warp field using only it's fusion generators?
There was also the Yoyodyne Fusion drives.
Powered by bioethanol and achieved a warp bubble using leprechaun magic
There's never been a single SF series which has been "about the science." Even The Expanse (which is probably the hardest SF series in TV history) is about people and politics - not about the tech. It's just there as flavor and worldbuilding.
ORLY?
https://www.ottawalife.com/article/putting-the-science-in-science-fiction-monomolecular-blades?c=7
(Guess you haven't actually read a lot of Science Fiction have you?)
Nanometer =/= Monomolecular.
For actual monomolecular weapons, you need to hold the material in an energy field, because otherwise even just moving through the air would dull them.
Go read The Larry Niven Ringworld novels/series.
I have, they alter reality so certain things that shouldn't be able to work can.
Which may be the most inefficient use of reality alteration in fiction.
didn’t he just lower the mass of the station and then used the thrusters amiche better than he could have otherwise? I don’t remember a warp field being involved.
I wasn't saying that Star Trek is hard science fiction or that science was the focus of the series. I was just saying that whatever level of science existed in previous series has become less prominent in Discovery and other things like action and feelings have become more prominent (again, relative to previous series). Though the pivot towards more action certainly began before Discovery. I also never said you needed to have a science fiction background to run the show.
Is it just me, or did Guardian Xi use the phrase "A zhian'tara unlike any other" in referring to Gray? (because that's kinda what this is)
Nice to see the DSC writers remembered that word.
I suppose when Adira's zhian'tara comes around, Gray won't be in it though.
Side note: Have they ever said what Adira's original last name was, before joining with Tal? I don't recall it ever being used, anyway.
Nice to see the DSC writers remembered that word.
I suppose when Adira's zhian'tara comes around, Gray won't be in it though.
Side note: Have they ever said what Adira's original last name was, before joining with Tal? I don't recall it ever being used, anyway.
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I don't think that Discovery started that trend. I think the TNG films did, just like the TMP set off the trend towards more introspective. Star Trek is not new to the action game, largely owing to Roddenberry framing it like an action/adventure series with TOS. That obviously changed with TMP and TNG, but then thinks swung more towards the action side again. The science in Star Trek has been sporadic, to be generous.
ST: TMP was Paramount attempt to try and put Star Trek in a more cerebral frame like 2001 A Space Odyssey.
With the subsequent films set in the toss era, they pretty much did return to a more action adventure format with some social commentary.
However, when GR was given full control the T NG TV series, he tried to reimagine and retool the basic Star Trek formula because he didn't own any merchandising rights to the original series; and he pretty much wanted T NG to completely surplant TOS, so he could get a slice of the merchandising profits.
Yeah, I agree with that. On the TV side TNG and the first part of DS9 were pretty light on the action. The second half of DS9, VOY and ENT were heavier on the action and Discovery even more so.
He used a Subspace Field to do that, which is just another name for the Warp Field used by starships.
Really, the whole Dilithium storyline in Discovery was just bad writing. There are a thousand and one different ways to generate power. And a thousand and one different ways to transfer that power around. Meaning that while whatever you end up with might not have the efficiency of M/AM reactors. It's not a particularly difficult problem for anyone with two brain-cells to rub together to overcome.
I think the level of science is about the same. Stamets can technobabble with the best of them and the show hasn't shied away from using scientific terms, lingo and jargon. Pseudo and otherwise. As for the "feels", TNG was definitely a show about feels. A lot of family drama, romance and the occasional tragedy. It could be a bit psychobabbly too, in keeping with the time it was produced. It usually had an action piece in most episodes, IIRC.
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