Future Trek Technology?

[USS_Britain]

Sorry if this is done already,

What future technology in the 25th onwards will be on Star Trek, Do you think there be?

I think that they'll use Borg Technology to make a new Starship and their Warp Drive will be a Borg Traswarp Drive.

 

[Finn]

Inverted hypospanners and inverted transporters. It's amazing Data or B'Elanna didn't up with those already.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

That all depends on who's doing the show doesn't it?

With the existing TNG/VOY crew, probably starships powered by tetrionic particle reactors, armed with quantum phasers and isomagnetic torpedoes, protected by multi-spatial diffraction shields and equipped with Starfleet's brand new long range interphasic transporter system.

If it's JJ Abrams doing it, probably a starship armed with three different types of phasers, two different types of photon torpedoes, dropships, gunships, torpedo decoys, smart grenades, lots of nifty holographic interfaces, lots of different types of androids, and something that looks and functions suspiciously like a light saber.

 

[Gepard]

If it's JJ Abrams doing it, probably a starship armed with three different types of phasers, two different types of photon torpedoes, dropships, gunships, torpedo decoys, smart grenades, lots of nifty holographic interfaces, lots of different types of androids, and something that looks and functions suspiciously like a light saber.

In other words, he'd finally add some diversity to Trek technology, rather than just slap a new adjective onto one of the five basic ideas the franchise has been recycling for 40 years now.

 

[T'Girl]

New and improved self sealing stem bolts.

They will realize the errors of their ways and bring back money. Ahhh, that clinking clanking sound.



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[Crazy Eddie]

New and improved self sealing stem bolts.

They will realize the errors of their ways and bring back money. Ahhh, that clinking clanking sound.



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HELL yes. I've always found there was something pretty damn convenient about having all these weird new inventions they come up with every other week that would revolutionize everything about starships, but don't, because they forget about them a week later.

Money provides a perfectly logical explanation: "Yes, Geordi, I know your telepresence probe thing worked really well, but that was before the Daystrom Institute sent us the bill."

 

[Myasishchev]

Maybe they'll get their heads out of their asses and actually explore genetic engineering, cybernetics, and AI, instead of blowing up any Augments, Borg, or robots they find in their quasi-religious zeal to keep the human species exactly as it is.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Personally, I kind of think technology should make things simpler rather than more complicated. Maybe the 25th-Century will see the end of the technobabble age and the start of a more utilitarian era (if it's a spade, call it a spade instead of a localized topographical rectifier).

 

[TiberiusMaximus]

So then phasers would be glowy orange beam launchers?

 

[Crazy Eddie]

So then phasers would be glowy orange beam launchers?

No, phasers should be phasers. Photon torpedoes should be photon torpedoes. Quantum torpedoes should be quantum torpedoes.

But if you want to invent a new type of torpedo, you give it another name that may or may not have anything at all to do with how it works; say, "Pulsar torpedo" or "Alpha torpedo." Terms like "transphasic torpedo" or "phased polaron disruptor weapon" might make sense in the context of a technical briefing or a scientific journal, but in the context of a firefight--spoken by either side--it comes off as pedantic and pretentious.

Hell, even referring to weapons by their numerical designation would make a lot more sense. if "photon torpedo" really is its technical name and not just some pithy product name (as in "Viper" or "Mustang," either of which refer to a vehicle and not a mechanism of their operation) it would make sense to hear a starship commander order "hit him with a spread of mark sevens!"

 

[Xerxes1979]

EMH technology will spread to engineering and command. Probably less 1/3 of the crew need be organics.

The days of crawling through Jeffries tubes are over.