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Maybe enough of it was classified (held out as secret) that doing that was not possible?
I think definitely. The Vulcans were holding Earth back and it would have made perfect sense for their ring ship technology be classified. I can definitely see that happening
Well, if they ran into the brick wall of not being able to get it to work, then they would have gone with something that they could make work. It's either that or stay satisfied with nothing.
According to Beta Canon, humans found out that (Warp Rings / Coleopteric Drives) had superior Straight Line FTL Speeds & Fuel Efficiency, but horrible manueverability at High Warp Factors of that era.
StarFleet required Doctrinal Flexibility, so the Warp Ring was a dead end given what StarFleet wanted.
I can see the Warp Ring as a "Perfect Solution" for Commercial Warp Drives for Civilians who only need to get from A to B as fast & efficiently as possible.
Some Beta Canon lore states that Warp Rings are on average, 17% more Energy Consumption Efficient than Twin/Multi Warp Nacelle designs.
But if you don't need manueverability, then Straight line efficiency would win in most economic senses.
The real problem is what did Earth know?
I keep hammering this point, Computer Aided Design plus Independent Logic Computers(available since 2002), would have led directly to the ideal design. The TAS Bonaventure.
I can understand some people's dislike for this, as being too gross, and too soon, but not the ignoring of Computer Aided Design and Independent logic Computers.
I keep hammering this point, Computer Aided Design plus Independent Logic Computers(available since 2002), would have led directly to the ideal design. The TAS Bonaventure.
I can understand some people's dislike for this, as being too gross, and too soon, but not the ignoring of Computer Aided Design and Independent logic Computers.
There are in-universe reasons Cochrane is celebrated and a legend 150 years after his disappearance. Vulcan warp scientists, not so much.
Perhaps even too concerned about what humans might do with it?
They don't seem to trust us.
I think there is a line about how humans accomplished in less than a century what it took a millenia for the Vulcans.
Sure—
HUMANS: “Our guy invented warp drive! Yay us!”
VULCANS: “Warp drive was invented thousands of years ago, and others had it before us. We fail to see the source of your excitement.”
HUMANS: 'Our guy did it in a cave using a box of scraps."
The most buzzkill Vulcan thing to say imaginable.
Cochrane did break the warp barrier just ten years after our nuclear war. Soval tells Admiral Forrest that it took Vulcans centuries after their own nuclear cataclysm to reach Warp 2, so that's not bad for a bunch of drunk, emotional primates on a world with Hot Pockets.
Soval said it to Forrest in the beginning of "THE FORGE". It was right before the bomb that killed Forrest. (And the final push for Soval to be on the side of humans.)
From this dialogue it appears Vulcans didn't even have warp capability until perhaps 500 years before ENT or TOS.
Humans, a species of many foreheads.
Spock noted that "The name of Zefram Cochrane is revered throughout the known galaxy. Planets were named after him. Great universities, cities."
So there must have been something unique, at least, about Cochrane's system using nacelles, and humans could have this bull-headed sense of "wanting to do things their way" and continuing with that basis, instead of trying to mimic the Vulcan ring technology, even if the Vulcans had decided to disclose the specs to the humans.
Kor
So there must have been something unique, at least, about Cochrane's system using nacelles, and humans could have this bull-headed sense of "wanting to do things their way" and continuing with that basis, instead of trying to mimic the Vulcan ring technology, even if the Vulcans had decided to disclose the specs to the humans.
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