General Trek Questions and Observations

[gweeps]

Leola root!

 

[gweeps]

I wonder if the aliens from ENT's 'The Crossing' are related to the aliens from TNG's 'Power Play'?

 

[at Quark's]

I wonder if the aliens from ENT's 'The Crossing' are related to the aliens from TNG's 'Power Play'?

I don't think so. See this quote:

TROI: We were brought to this moon over five centuries ago from a star system called Ux-Mal. We were separated from our bodies and left to drift in the storms. Once we almost escaped, on board the Essex, but that ship was incapable of eluding this moon's electromagnetic storms.

So they were a corporeal species, and their separation was presumably involuntary and a means of punishment. They're still alive after those 500 years.

The species in The Crossing talks about their ancestors being a physical species once, but they evolved and they also say they haven't met corporeal species for a long time. Also they're very curious to experience what it means to be corporeal. To me that all sounds as if they've been incorporeal for a lot longer than 500 years.

 

[gweeps]

I don't think so. See this quote:


So they were a corporeal species, and their separation was presumably involuntary and a means of punishment. They're still alive after those 500 years.

The species in The Crossing talks about their ancestors being a physical species once, but they evolved and they also say they haven't met corporeal species for a long time. Also they're very curious to experience what it means to be corporeal. To me that all sounds as if they've been incorporeal for a lot longer than 500 years.

You're probably right. I forgot those details.

Still, it's interesting to see similar species in Star Trek, and wonder if they're related and/or know of one another. Like does Kevin Uxbridge know about the Q? Etc.

 

[gweeps]

Not counting double-length episodes, Picard's series finale will be #869 aired. Wow. That's a lot of Trek, especially if you count 'The Cage' and all the double-lengths.

And we've still got dozens to look forward to over the next couple of years.

 

[1001001]

Not counting double-length episodes, Picard's series finale will be #869 aired. Wow. That's a lot of Trek, especially if you count 'The Cage' and all the double-lengths.

And we've still got dozens to look forward to over the next couple of years.

 

[Bynar0110]

Has ever been stated who invented impulse engines?

 

[cooleddie74]

Never in canon. That's been a mystery for decades. TOS said sleeper ships fell out of use for interplanetary travel inside Earth's solar system around 2018 because faster (sublight, fusion-driven) engines were developed in the early years of the 21st century but no one person was ever identifed as the individual who made the impulse drive breakthrough. It definitely existed by the 2060s (the S.S. Valiant is described in dialogue as having had old-style impulse engines) and that's all we know for sure.

 

[gweeps]

Is this a real picture? When was it taken?

 

[cooleddie74]

Yep. All three visited The Original Series Set Tour and had their pictures taken. At least I think that's the Tour. That looks a little too good to be a random fan build.

 

[IMC Headquarters]

Ship's at Red Alert. They don't look especially worried... Must be space pollen.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

These are pretty cool. Should be used somewhere in Trek. https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1648692929316417537

 

[IMC Headquarters]

These are pretty cool. Should be used somewhere in Trek. https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1648692929316417537

Way cool. They should be the engine core of a new class of alien starship. I can see them on SNW.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Has ever been stated who invented impulse engines?

It was spur of the moment.

 

[gweeps]

Really wish there'd been no reset button for Ent's 'Twilight'.

Why can't there just be episodes where we see an alternate reality? Not mirror universe per se.

 

[at Quark's]

As such, I've never really understood whether the Mirror Universe is just one of many alternate realities (like we see in Worf's Parallels) or something else altogether.

 

[at Quark's]

Has ever been stated who invented impulse engines?

I'm not even sure what an impulse engine is supposed to be exactly, anyway. The engines we have today could be termed that.

At least for a 'warp engine' we know it to be a fictional 'magical' technology unlike anything we have today, but for impulse engines it's not clear whether they operate on some principle entirely unknown today or they are just supposed to be a (number of) significant (incremental) improvement(s) on something we already have.

 

[JesterFace]

At least for a 'warp engine' we know it to be a fictional 'magical' technology unlike anything we have today

Even if we don't know how to create it fortunately we know the basic principle or warp drive.
Folding space in front and back of the ship, or so I've understood. Space shrinks in front of the ship and enlarges behind the ship, right? Ships gets to different places faster than light but the ship never goes as fast as light. Did I get that right? =)

 

[Racefuel]

The reality is is that whatever sort of FTL we develop as a species won't be as conventional looking as TNG has it..but the simple fact that I read a headline that said "we're closer to faster than light travel than we thought" the other day is...

Yeah.

Plus we're actively beginning to experiment with using antimatter as power generation. Granted it is extremely experimental and the antimatter/matter reactions are lasting a fraction of a second..its the fact we're able, right now..to have in micro terms the basis of a warp core.

That is mind boggling to me

 

[gweeps]

As such, I've never really understood whether the Mirror Universe is just one of many alternate realities (like we see in Worf's Parallels) or something else altogether.

They should have kept the Troi/Worf romance/marriage plotline to that episode.

And here I go contradicting my previous post about how much I dislike reset buttons.