Enterprise Engineering Spoilers

[throwback]

I have an observation I made about the new Enterprise.

For the past fifty years, Federation starships had two primary power systems: the warp drive and the impulse drive. If one system fails, the other system will continue to function. If both systems fail, there is an emergency power system.

For the new Enterprise, this ship seems to have one primary power system, the warp system. When the warp system fails, the ship loses all power, save for emergency power supply. The ship can't even power its thrusters without warp power.

We have seen a ship that was operating on no power from the impulse and warp engines. This was the Enterprise-D in "Booby Trap". This ship, under the skillful hand of Captain Picard, managed to maneuver its way out of an asteroid field with thruster power.

For someone who is not an engineer, I would think that what was presented in the pre-Abrams universe was a more sound design.

I would like to know what others think about this change.

 

[Amaris]

I have an observation I made about the new Enterprise.

For the past fifty years, Federation starships had two primary power systems: the warp drive and the impulse drive. If one system fails, the other system will continue to function. If both systems fail, there is an emergency power system.

For the new Enterprise, this ship seems to have one primary power system, the warp system. When the warp system fails, the ship loses all power, save for emergency power supply. The ship can't even power its thrusters without warp power.

We have seen a ship that was operating on no power from the impulse and warp engines. This was the Enterprise-D in "Booby Trap". This ship, under the skillful hand of Captain Picard, managed to maneuver its way out of an asteroid field with thruster power.

For someone who is not an engineer, I would think that what was presented in the pre-Abrams universe was a more sound design.

I would like to know what others think about this change.

In the TOS episode, The Naked Time, while orbiting Psi 2000, the crew becomes incapacitated, or otherwise unable to function. In the process, a crewman shuts down the warp engines. Without the warp engines, the ship's orbit begins decaying rapidly. Enterprise can't even adjust her orbit as the planet becomes unstable. Scotty, upon being able to access the warp engines again, has to do an emergency cold restart, and the ship just barely escapes orbit in time, risking a critical mass of the warp core in the process.

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

I thought they escaped out of time?

Wasn't there something like a 3 day trip into the past, in reverse running clocks included?

How about that for an alternate end for STID?


Btw, J., I take it you've seen the movie by now and approve?

 

[throwback]

In "The Naked Time", Kevin Riley had cut off power to both the helm and the engines. The helm was used to compensate for the gravitational changes of Psi 2000.

 

[aeriolewinters]

btw, the enterprise got a minor refit during the end of the movie

 

[Amaris]

I thought they escaped out of time?

Wasn't there something like a 3 day trip into the past, in reverse running clocks included?

How about that for an alternate end for STID?


Btw, J., I take it you've seen the movie by now and approve?

Yes, I have, and I highly approve!

In "The Naked Time", Kevin Riley had cut off power to both the helm and the engines. The helm was used to compensate for the gravitational changes of Psi 2000.

True, but that still leaves auxiliary control. Either way, with the warp engines down, there was no station-keeping propulsion at all to keep the ship in orbit.

 

[throwback]

Auxiliary control functions had been switched to main engineering by Kevin Riley.