Discovery in Variety
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It's hilarious. I love coming to this thread to see the irrelevancy of the complaints.
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I must of missed this one. That is most certainly not blue.
Could be what they were going for with the multiple "dilithium chambers" concept with the 2009 movie and the 2013 engineering section in the game. (Before they ditched the idea for a single core in Into Darkness, cool as a real plasma reactor was for that).
A new way to fly being multiple smaller reaction chambers wasn't what I was expecting, but it is different.
We might finally do away with the 'gonna breach' drama every few episodes.
A new way to fly being multiple smaller reaction chambers wasn't what I was expecting, but it is different.
We might finally do away with the 'gonna breach' drama every few episodes.
I'm guessing the darker lighting we've been seeing is combat/alert lighting levels.
Even if the dominant tone is blue, it is because the production designers and producers dig that color, simple as that. It was an artistic choice. I love a blue hue in sci-fi, so for me, this whole critique about it being 'all blue' (which it even isn't) really doesn't bother me at all..
*Bl-bl-bl blue alert*
I'm more or less the same. I don't necessarily *love* blue for sci-fi, but I'm not bothered by it in the slightest. It's the artistic choice they went with, low contrast on consoles or current lighting trends be damned. No amount of “OMG, it's all blue!” every time another set image debuts will change that now.
Discovery's design feels driven by committee, not technical justification.
Obviously it would be a failure. Because we are back to things breaching ten years later. And for the next hundred-plus years.
I disagree.
The term 'Warp Core' was never used in TOS - nor the TOS films. It was the 'Matter-Anti-Matter Reactor'. "Warp Core" was a TNG era term.
[And yeah, if we hear 'Warp Core' in ST: D - the writers never paid much attention to the TOS episodes they saw, or give much of a dawm about the Trek era they close to set the series in (IMO)]
I was talking about the whole idea of it breaching every other week (if the show is Prime). Whatever they are doing, can't fix that as Starfleet engines are pretty fragile all the way through the TNG movies.
IIRC Enterprise called it a Warp Core and Reactor
Yes, the term "warp core" was first used on TNG. ENT was produced after TNG.
Well, to be fair - I don't recall Scotty ever saying 'The M-A-M Reactor' is going to breach/explode in ANY TOS episode or film.
Spock (and others) in Warp Engine stress situations often said:
"The engines are super-heating" sometimes followed by "She'll blow soon!"
And in TOS-"Elaan of Troyious" Scott exclaimed (because of a Klingon allied Troyian saboteur):
SCOTT: "The anti-matter pods are rigged to blow up the moment we go into warp drive."
But yeah, in the TNG era - if someone sneezed near it you had someone shouting: "The Warp Core is about to breach!"
I like you hope they do stick to the 23rd century Trek era and never mention a 'Warp Core' - or that it's going to blow.
We'll see.
And ENT was set in the TOS era? I must have missed that.
Riker actually recognizes what Cochrane is using as a warp core in First Contact...
Star Trek: First Contact said:
But Bill, isn't this a totally new universe that doesn't follow the Prime's rules?
Why would they change the name?
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