The Alternate Factor showed dilithium crystals, they looked very different than the one lithium crystal seen in Mudd's Women.SPOCK: The entire ship's power is feeding through one lithium crystal.
KIRK: Well, switch to by-pass circuits.
Here's a random instructional film:
[YT]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hemM8rrx2Yw[/YT]
Yes, it was. Right off the bat, a quick search of the transcripts reveals dilithium being mentioned in "Oasis."I distinctly remember an automated lithium cracking station in "Where No Man..."
I don't recall if dilithium was ever mention on "Enterprise".
There's also this bit from "Peak Performance":
That seems to suggest that the function of the dilithium crystals is to somehow regulate the matter/antimatter reaction, rather than to provide the fuel for it.LAFORGE: The hard part's going to be calibrating the thermal curve necessary to start a controlled reaction.
RIKER: Assuming you can, can you regulate the reaction?
WESLEY: There's just enough crystal to do it. We plan to channel the reaction through the chips.
LAFORGE: Are we good?
RIKER: You're better than good. Great. Brilliant. It's going to be fun. Carry on.
I always saw that as the trip overworked the dilithium crystals, causing them to deteriorate to the point where they were no longer usable.Well in Star Trek IV when they time travelled Scotty said it drained the dilithium crystals and they had to recrystalize them by using photons from a nuclear reactor. He clearly said they couldn't go to warp without them.
I always saw that as the trip overworked the dilithium crystals, causing them to deteriorate to the point where they were no longer usable.Well in Star Trek IV when they time travelled Scotty said it drained the dilithium crystals and they had to recrystalize them by using photons from a nuclear reactor. He clearly said they couldn't go to warp without them.
It's possible that there were earlier unmanned warp flights before the Phoenix, but they simply are not celebrated.and first flight should really be unmanned and not manned like Phoenix.
Short of detonating the warhead inside of a force field (beyond Cochrane's technology) and channeling the high energy plasma to the warp coils, I don't see how the warhead would be useful.I just figured he somehow reconfigured the nuclear warhead to fuel the thing.
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