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[yenny]

I'm thinking that those Federation starships are in mothball or were in mothball. Were brought back into service to fight back whom ever had cause the burn.
I believe that 99% of starfleet were destroyed and disable and almost all recordings of what had happen were lost. Those recordings that weren't lost, are bits and pieces of what happen, need to be put together like a puzzle.

 

[Dukhat]

I'm thinking that those Federation starships are in mothball or were in mothball. Were brought back into service to fight back whom ever had cause the burn.

You don't mothball ships for 1,000 years.

 

[Lord Garth]

Federation Starships in DSC S3 will probably be like Cuban Cars. There was an embargo on imported cars after 1959, so cars -- unless they were from Cuba -- were frozen at where they were in 1959. They had to keep fixing those old cars.

In what's left of Federation Starships, they're probably all from 3068 (give or take) and earlier. So whatever was still in service at the time is what they're stuck with and what they've had to maintain for 120 years. So what's left of their fleet has to be falling apart.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

Federation Starships in DSC S3 will probably be like Cuban Cars. There was an embargo on imported cars after 1959, so cars -- unless they were from Cuba -- were frozen at where they were in 1959. They had to keep fixing those old cars.

In what's left of Federation Starships, they're probably all from 3068 (give or take) and earlier. So whatever was still in service at the time is what they're stuck with and what they've had to maintain for 120 years. So what's left of their fleet has to be falling apart.

Well it the likes of Book can get a fancy ship maybe the Fed can. Only thing is if they are not building their own they wont look like what we know them to be

 

[Dukhat]

In what's left of Federation Starships, they're probably all from 3068 (give or take) and earlier. So whatever was still in service at the time is what they're stuck with and what they've had to maintain for 120 years. So what's left of their fleet has to be falling apart.

That's a logical deduction. What bothers me is that nobody found a better propulsion system than warp drive with dilithium for 1,000 years. That stretches credibility to the extreme, even more than using the same ships for 1,000 years (if we take what we see literally, which I actually don't.)

 

[Nerys Myk]

That's a logical deduction. What bothers me is that nobody found a better propulsion system than warp drive with dilithium for 1,000 years. That stretches credibility to the extreme, even more than using the same ships for 1,000 years (if we take what we see literally, which I actually don't.)

As I've said elsewhere, some tech plateaus for while. (some forever). We've seen rapid changes in the last Century but there have also bee long stretches of stagnation in the past.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

That's a logical deduction. What bothers me is that nobody found a better propulsion system than warp drive with dilithium for 1,000 years. That stretches credibility to the extreme, even more than using the same ships for 1,000 years (if we take what we see literally, which I actually don't.)

Capt. Ransom found one and he wasnt afraid to use it either

 

[Dukhat]

As I've said elsewhere, some tech plateaus for while. (some forever). We've seen rapid changes in the last Century but there have also bee long stretches of stagnation in the past.

Here's my issue: Book said the Burn only happened 100-120 years before he was born. That means that the Federation et. al had 800-900 years to perfect a better propulsion system. Or even something like creating artificial wormholes so that the ship itself doesn't need any fancy system; they're just traversing folded space. I'm not buying the 'stagnant tech' theory for so long a time.

 

[eschaton]

As I've said elsewhere, some tech plateaus for while. (some forever). We've seen rapid changes in the last Century but there have also bee long stretches of stagnation in the past.

There's an argument that one reason why there was very little technological advancement in the Roman Empire - or China - while there was a lot in Europe in the Early Modern period has to do with competition. Basically, when a power is hegemonic, it tends to get more conservative in a small c sense. When new ways of doing things are proposed, they often are not taken up because one or another established interest with a say in governance sees it as against their own interest. Hence stagnation becomes the norm. In contrast, in areas where there are several competing states, any one state can quickly see the folly of not accepting a technological advancement when it sees the advantage it brings to its neighbors.

You could see this scenario working with the Federation. Basically, maybe the established tech worked so well they saw no reason to innovate, since there was essentially no possible competition.

 

[Lord Garth]

They probably have slipstream and beyond, but it all probably runs on dilithium.

Our cars (at least most of them) run on gasoline just like the Model T Ford did in 1908.

 

[Dukhat]

They probably have slipstream and beyond, but it all probably runs on dilithium.

Our cars (at least most of them) run on gasoline just like the Model T Ford did in 1908.

But fossil fuels won't last forever, and there is least some research going on to find alternative fuel sources (like hybrid or electric.) Same with warp drive. There had to have been scientists trying to at least find a back-up technology in case something goes wrong with their current mode of propulsion.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

Here's my issue: Book said the Burn only happened 100-120 years before he was born. That means that the Federation et. al had 800-900 years to perfect a better propulsion system. Or even something like creating artificial wormholes so that the ship itself doesn't need any fancy system; they're just traversing folded space. I'm not buying the 'stagnant tech' theory for so long a time.

Lorca knows from experience that if you try folding space you end up flying through hell

 

[Bollie74]

I'm calling it now: Grudge is really an Isis-like lady in cat form.

Would that make Book a modern day Gary 7?

 

[Bollie74]

They probably have slipstream and beyond, but it all probably runs on dilithium.

Our cars (at least most of them) run on gasoline just like the Model T Ford did in 1908.

Book made mention of several other methods of propulsion including slip stream, something about tachyon sails and then trilithium (maybe transwarp?)...

 

[Dukhat]

Book made mention of several other methods of propulsion including slip stream, something about tachyon sails and then trilithium (maybe transwarp?)...

You’d think that by the 32nd century, people would have either taken over the Borg’s transwarp conduits or reverse engineered them. You don’t need warp drive if your ship is just using an artificial wormhole to get places.

 

[fireproof78]

Actually, I think the Borg and the transwarp network are completely destroyed.

 

[Dukhat]

Actually, I think the Borg and the transwarp network are completely destroyed.

What makes you say that?

 

[fireproof78]

What makes you say that?

Honestly, my truest wish that Admiral Janeway's plan would completely dismantle the Borg's infrastructure, including destroying the transwarp structure.

 

[Dukhat]

Honestly, my truest wish that Admiral Janeway's plan would completely dismantle the Borg's infrastructure, including destroying the transwarp structure.

There was still a transwarp conduit in PIC. And the implication that the Borg were still out there.

 

[fireproof78]

There was still a transwarp conduit in PIC. And the implication that the Borg were still out there.

Oh, well, I could dream.