Graviton Catapult

[All Seeing Eye]

The Graviton Catapult.

Probably the most advanced transportation system in existence, almost as efficient as a wormhole yet much more stable and much more easily constructed.

My question to you people is, do you think they become in widespread use after Voyager got home?

This catapult was built by just one small crew, in the Delta Quadrant and with limited supplies and resources and yet they built one large enough to propel Voyager 30 sectors in only a few hours shaving as much as 3 years off their journey.

It's quite possible this device or even a smaller one could propel a starship from Earth to the other side of Federation space in mere hours.

Now surely Voyager gained enough info from it to allow Starfleet to build these devices? surely a team of experts in Starfleet could use even a bit of info to help them perfect such a device?

There are only 150 member worlds in the Federation, that's only 150 catapults required for the main worlds.

They could build a catapult and then build a catapult construction ship, catapult the ship as far as possible and then have it deploy a new catapult and so on and so forth.

This one piece of transportation technology from one single episode of Voyager is enough to change the face of Star Trek as we know it with warp drive. Warp drive would take a back seat to this type of technology.

If we ever get another series based around the original timeline I want to see these catapults.

 

[Plecostomus]

I could see them used for trips between the member worlds, and warp/slipstream used to "Boldly Go."

 

[P0sitr0nic]

Slipstream is what the DQ gave us. Tho i did like the idea of a catapult, slipstream is a much more viable tech.

 

[DiSiLLUSiON]

The "Graviton Catapult" uses "Null Space". However, it's unknown if it's a naturally occurring phenomenon or not. Or even if it's evenly distributed (TNG seemed to think it occured in pockets). Memory Alpha presumes the catapult actually creates the null space. But if it has such a long reach, why not simply modify space as to exist there, and not here? You'd have a huge-ranged transporter.

So it probably won't work in the Alpha Quadrant.

 

[Anwar]

How could they calculate everything between the distances when using the catapult? What if they shoot themselves out there and hit an asteroid in the way?