Goosebump Moments

[Vale]

But even when Scotty's work was undone, it still didn't work. Otherwise, certainly the Enterprise D (the flagship 100y later) would have had it.

Precisely. The idea that Scotty's sabotage of the Excelsior put an end to transwarp development is bonkers. Can nobody else in Starfleet run a diagnostic? Does the Excelsior not carry spares? Did nobody check!?

My favourite headcanon explanation is that the Excelsior's transwarp drive just became the next generation of warp drive – hence why the warp scale was recalibrated for TNG – and "transwarp" refers to anything with significantly greater performance than the standard warp drives of the time rather than a specific technology. The NX-01 was arguably the transwarp "great experiment" of its day.

 

[MAGolding]

Precisely. The idea that Scotty's sabotage of the Excelsior put an end to transwarp development is bonkers. Can nobody else in Starfleet run a diagnostic? Does the Excelsior not carry spares? Did nobody check!?

My favourite headcanon explanation is that the Excelsior's transwarp drive just became the next generation of warp drive – hence why the warp scale was recalibrated for TNG – and "transwarp" refers to anything with significantly greater performance than the standard warp drives of the time rather than a specific technology. The NX-01 was arguably the transwarp "great experiment" of its day.

I agree.. There is no reason to assume that the Excelsior's transwarp drive wouldn't work fine when all the pieces were installed properly. Thus the Excelsior's type of transwarp drive probably soon became the normal ordinary type of warp drive in new vessels, and was later replaced by ultrawarp drive which later was considered to be plain ordinary warp drive while being replaced with superwarp drive which eventually was called just warp drive, and so on and so on down the centuries.

 

[shapeshifter]

I don't know why Excelsior class ships didn't replace the connies.... They looked dope

Wait for it...

Yeah nup...... I stand by my statement. Those ships like the one Sulu was captain of look better then the Constitution Class ships. Much better

ETA: https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/model-kit-building.310034/page-7#post-14196989