How fast are shuttle-craft/ runabouts
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Power isn't such an issue when you're playing with antimatter. The question is how much power can the ship HANDLE, not how much can it generate. You can strap the Defiant's warp core on the back of a runabout, but power needs somewhere to go if you don't want to blow the engines to smithereens.
Not structure so much as the integrity of the nacelles and the reactor core. You won't exactly destroy your car if you install a helicopter engine under the hood, but you'll have to do something with the transmission and the drive train or else you're going to have the world's noisiest hibachi.
This actually reminds me on Threshold episode in Voyager.
The issue they had was not crossing the threshold, but the ship's nacelle pylons were essentially tearing themselves from the hull because the alloy that was an integral part of the pylons destabilized at higher warp levels.
Once they were able to take care of that issue, the warp threshold was relatively simple enough to cross over.
SF ships indeed are able to achieve much higher warp velocities ... provided of course the hull and SIF can take it.
Similar issue happened with Arturis Slipstream (version 1). Voyager was only able to withstand 1 hour of the quantum stress.
They fixed that problem with the version 2 Slipstream that was also far faster ... but the phase variance of the Slipstream was a different issue (although this begs the question on why the Flyer survived that trip and voyager did not ... before the time-line changed ... the phase variance would have affected the Flyer in the same manner ... although Harry was likely able to compensate for it given the fact the Flyer was a smaller ship with a different type of configuration and Borg technology as part of it ... whereas Voyager was much larger and predominantly still filled with SF tech which was modified to some extent, but not by the same one by the end of Season 7 and before Endgame took place).
The issue they had was not crossing the threshold, but the ship's nacelle pylons were essentially tearing themselves from the hull because the alloy that was an integral part of the pylons destabilized at higher warp levels.
Once they were able to take care of that issue, the warp threshold was relatively simple enough to cross over.
SF ships indeed are able to achieve much higher warp velocities ... provided of course the hull and SIF can take it.
Similar issue happened with Arturis Slipstream (version 1). Voyager was only able to withstand 1 hour of the quantum stress.
They fixed that problem with the version 2 Slipstream that was also far faster ... but the phase variance of the Slipstream was a different issue (although this begs the question on why the Flyer survived that trip and voyager did not ... before the time-line changed ... the phase variance would have affected the Flyer in the same manner ... although Harry was likely able to compensate for it given the fact the Flyer was a smaller ship with a different type of configuration and Borg technology as part of it ... whereas Voyager was much larger and predominantly still filled with SF tech which was modified to some extent, but not by the same one by the end of Season 7 and before Endgame took place).
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Let me see, no, I don't think that episode of Voyager actually existed. It was probably erased from the timeline by... hmm, that's strange, apparently he doesn't exist either.
Let me see, no, I don't think that episode of Voyager actually existed. It was probably erased from the timeline by... hmm, that's strange, apparently he doesn't exist either.
It happened on-screen, although the writers de-canonized the episode apparently (even though I personally found it enjoyable and actually perfectly explainable within the confines of the Trek universe) and later on when 7 came aboard and was bored out of her skull, wanted to open up a Transwarp conduit, and Torres said that they knew nothing about TW technology and playing around it would be dangerous.
That was puzzling to me when I saw it because back then I haven't heard that Threshold was pushed out of canon ... which was stupid.
In any event ... I took it as a reference to explain the consistency between constant failures of achieving higher warp velocities or TW speeds.
On the subject matter though ... in TNG we got Warp capable shuttles ...
In Voyager, a type 6 shuttle was capable of Warp 4 at maximum ... or so it was stated on screen to my recollection.
A type 9 would likely have a more efficient engine, and Voyager crew had to tinker with their tech and make mods to virtually everything in order to increase their chances of survival.
Wasn't there some TNG episode somewhere that bitched about excessive warp speed causing holes in the interstellar ozone, or something? They put some kind of goofy speed limit on space travel - I thought it was something like W5? There it is... I thought so.
So, W4 isn't prohibitive at all, on interstellar voyages.
So, W4 isn't prohibitive at all, on interstellar voyages.
The top speed of warp 4 was given for an unseen Type 9 shuttle in "Resolutions". No top speed was given for the VOY-specific shuttles which their creator liked to call Type 12, and which never got a Type number on screen (but which some sources confusingly call Type 9).
It damn well shouldn't be, because W3 was the top speed of Kivas Fajo's decidedly interstellar yacht in "The Most Toys"...
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