Excessive Criticism of "STAR TREK VOYAGER"
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The issue with replication for torpedo is where did they get the anti-matter?
what we were told is that they can replicate components and that they can build shuttles. We saw them build the Delta Flyer...TWICE
JANEWAY: I'm impressed, but how quickly can it be built?
PARIS: We could replicate the alloys and the new design components, use spare parts from storage. If we worked around the clock we could have it up and running inside a week.
The real reason that comment about the torpedoes was ignored is because the showrunners changed and they did their best to 'forget' what happened during the first two seasons.
To be honest, when I watched it on first airing I forget about all about the 'limited number of torpedoes'. It wasn't until I started reading online forums that I even remembered that line.
To be honest, when I watched it on first airing I forget about all about the 'limited number of torpedoes'. It wasn't until I started reading online forums that I even remembered that line.
Which directly condradicts what we have been told earlier, and it was because it was easier to ignore what said earlier than to live up to the limitation(s) the writers impossed on themselves.
I'm sure they even transferred holodeck power at some point despite being told it was incompatable with the rest of the power systems (which is bad design if you ask me) but we are told that so when they ignore it, it's sloppy writing.
It' heavily implied they can't back up the EMH because if they could why would they need to create a new one in case the EH was lost "Message in a Bottle" yet barely a dozen episodes later there is a backup module in one of VOYs better episode "Living Witness". Once again sloppy writing. They tell us one thing (a limitation) and totally ignore it several times.
They NEVER said they couldn't replace shuttles, and they've never transfered holodeck power to any other systems.
Unless they couldn't back up the EMH because of the loss of the backup module?
Same here. But honestly I don't see it as a huge stretch of the imagination to think that either through trade (which we saw them do) or through finding a way to build them, that they could replace some torpedoes.
Then why couldn't they replicate a new backup module?
well, Living Whitness comes after Message in a Bottle. So it is possible that after Message in a Bottle they made the backup, which was stolen, but they didn't know it was stolen.
Replicators can make rifles, and phasers. They deactivate someone's replicator in order to keep him from making weapons. I am guessing modern weapons like phasers, disruptors and the likes, not rocks. If you can make a phaser it's a fair bet that you can also make a torpedo. So my guess is, hell yes, they can replicate torpedoes. All they need is energy.
has it been said if they can replicate antimatter?
Antimatter has the same physical and chemical properties as matter. It would be theoretically possible to make an exact copy of yourself in antimatter and she would move, talk and think exactly like yourself. The only problem is that when a given quantity of antimatter meets the same quantity of matter they annihilate each other and produce an enormous quantity of energy, astronomical. So it's a fair bet that a replicator can make antimatter using the same principles it does when making matter. The problem is that you have to keep that antimatter AWAY from matter. THAT's the real problem.
Anti-matter in Star Trek is not (only) matter from a mirror universe with reverse properties that explodes on contact with regular matter. in the real world "photons" are regarded as antimatter, and that #### is practically just "light".
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Antimatter
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Antimatter
They imply they can, but replicating using positive matter/energy means using more to force a negative set of quantum numbers/spin to the product. They use a mineral, Boronite or something, that when bombarded with some plot radiation, turns into Antimatter far more easily. It's what the Antimatter generators do.
There's no such thing as an antiphoton.
Yes. That's what it says... Or are you misquoting Voy Prime Factors?
What part am I misquoting exactly?
B'Elanna going on about anti-neutrnos to explain why the pan galactic teleporter they stole, didn't work.
TORRES: The plasma manifold is becoming unstable.
SESKA: I can compensate for that!
CAREY: The manifold is being bombarded by anti-neutrinos from the trajector field.
SESKA: Anti-neutrinos?
TORRES: They must be the catalyst for the space-folding process.
SESKA: I can compensate for that!
CAREY: The manifold is being bombarded by anti-neutrinos from the trajector field.
SESKA: Anti-neutrinos?
TORRES: They must be the catalyst for the space-folding process.
