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Invent your own Star Trek Tech
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Here's some imaginative Trek tech:
Imagine an Enterprise-H or maybe a Horizon-C; a new kind of starship, which Starfleet is using to test new technologies in deep space. One tech approach is to phase out the use of matter/antimatter power and replace it with Borg-style zero-point energy. (The whole volatile antimatter thing has become a cliché in TREK, anyway.)
Imagine a deep-space explorer that combines the grand, colony-ship style of the Galaxy class with the decentralized multi-hull toughness of the Prometheus. I'd like to see a large, uber-dreadnought design with three quasi-independent hulls: Upper Saucer, Lower Saucer, and Aft Hull. Each one has its own zero-point warp drive. At least for the saucer-hulls, the nacelles would be integrated into the saucer a la Sisko's Defiant. Any combination of two hulls can "dock" with each other, without the third needed to be present.
Phasers and navi-deflectors would merge to form phased energy arrays, which would look like glowing organic cracks in the hull, a la Gamtu (TNG's "Tin Man"). The mothership would rely more heavily on attached "escort" vessels (one per hull) for defense; these parasitic starships would be based on Sisko's Defiant.
These detachable ships, along with a new generation of streamlined Runabouts, can disembark on missions away from the Mothership (or motherhull) and take on their own quasi-independent stories or arcs, for extended periods.
Imagine an Enterprise-H or maybe a Horizon-C; a new kind of starship, which Starfleet is using to test new technologies in deep space. One tech approach is to phase out the use of matter/antimatter power and replace it with Borg-style zero-point energy. (The whole volatile antimatter thing has become a cliché in TREK, anyway.)
Imagine a deep-space explorer that combines the grand, colony-ship style of the Galaxy class with the decentralized multi-hull toughness of the Prometheus. I'd like to see a large, uber-dreadnought design with three quasi-independent hulls: Upper Saucer, Lower Saucer, and Aft Hull. Each one has its own zero-point warp drive. At least for the saucer-hulls, the nacelles would be integrated into the saucer a la Sisko's Defiant. Any combination of two hulls can "dock" with each other, without the third needed to be present.
Phasers and navi-deflectors would merge to form phased energy arrays, which would look like glowing organic cracks in the hull, a la Gamtu (TNG's "Tin Man"). The mothership would rely more heavily on attached "escort" vessels (one per hull) for defense; these parasitic starships would be based on Sisko's Defiant.
These detachable ships, along with a new generation of streamlined Runabouts, can disembark on missions away from the Mothership (or motherhull) and take on their own quasi-independent stories or arcs, for extended periods.
hellsgate
Commodore
*LOL*
I can't think of anything to add except to ask if any of this would be okay to reproduce in a Fan Fiction "tech manual" or would it be good enough to simply credit the person who thought of it, in the story somewhere? As some of this sounds genuinely compelling, the kind of thing I'd love to add as part of a story set in the same era as the U.S.S. Titan.
The ones I'd be interested in using:
[*] Multi-cellular armor/shielding, an experimental, somewhat-translucent coating (making lettering & other details still visible) that literally "heals itself" after certain limited amounts of superficial to moderate hull damage.
[*] A "Mitotion" device, which duplicates/doubles anything, even living people.
There's already a device in use in Trek that does that. It was referred to in a Trek game, "Starfleet Command" as a "Gemini Device" based on the transporter accident that duplicated Captain Will Riker of the U.S.S. Titan & created the Maquis agent Lieutenant Thomas Riker. Also somewhat based on the sensor data from the accident that duplicated the U.S.S. Voyager & resulted in Ensign Kim beaming over to the duplicate.
Wouldn't a subspace reactor cause a warp-capable vessel to feed on what it needs to run at warp speeds & result in running-aground? Now, a Dark Matter reactor...I could see that.
[*] Phasers and navi-deflectors would merge to form phased energy arrays, which would look like glowing organic cracks in the hull, a la Gamtu (TNG's "Tin Man").
I could see that. An advanced Federation prototype with Borg & Species 8472 adaptions headed-up by Seven of Nine & Belanna Torres, & followed-up by a decade or two of research/testing by the rest of the S.C.E. with a few Cytherian (Reg Barclay) theories thrown in?
I can't think of anything to add except to ask if any of this would be okay to reproduce in a Fan Fiction "tech manual" or would it be good enough to simply credit the person who thought of it, in the story somewhere? As some of this sounds genuinely compelling, the kind of thing I'd love to add as part of a story set in the same era as the U.S.S. Titan.
The ones I'd be interested in using:
[*] Multi-cellular armor/shielding, an experimental, somewhat-translucent coating (making lettering & other details still visible) that literally "heals itself" after certain limited amounts of superficial to moderate hull damage.
[*] A "Mitotion" device, which duplicates/doubles anything, even living people.
There's already a device in use in Trek that does that. It was referred to in a Trek game, "Starfleet Command" as a "Gemini Device" based on the transporter accident that duplicated Captain Will Riker of the U.S.S. Titan & created the Maquis agent Lieutenant Thomas Riker. Also somewhat based on the sensor data from the accident that duplicated the U.S.S. Voyager & resulted in Ensign Kim beaming over to the duplicate.
Wouldn't a subspace reactor cause a warp-capable vessel to feed on what it needs to run at warp speeds & result in running-aground? Now, a Dark Matter reactor...I could see that.
[*] Phasers and navi-deflectors would merge to form phased energy arrays, which would look like glowing organic cracks in the hull, a la Gamtu (TNG's "Tin Man").
I could see that. An advanced Federation prototype with Borg & Species 8472 adaptions headed-up by Seven of Nine & Belanna Torres, & followed-up by a decade or two of research/testing by the rest of the S.C.E. with a few Cytherian (Reg Barclay) theories thrown in?
Sub-Space Transporters that can beam people across light years.
Transwarp or Quantum Sliptream drives.
More android and holographic officers.
Transwarp or Quantum Sliptream drives.
More android and holographic officers.
Own Star Trek Tech: ZPE-
I think I mentioned this before, but I've now incorporated this torp tech into my works (initially on interstellar ballistic missiles, with the potential for future miniaturization) based on the tech specs of quantum torpedoes.
Since the zero-point energy (ZPE) release is triggered by an enhanced photorp warhead going off, the new Starfleet "next-gen quantum torpedo" starts off with the more powerful plasma torpedo warhead explosion:
"... Trilithium-based PLASMA torpedo warheads like those on Romulan plasma torpedoes are used to trigger zero-point energy reactions immediately before the ISBMs hit their target. This effectively outsources the massive power and fuel drainages associated with plasma torpedoes to the actual ISBMs themselves, while eliminating the notorious dissipation problem associated with such..."
The ISBMs' warp systems, in their last hoorah before shutting down, feed the first-reaction plasma torpedo warhead system. The potential for future miniaturization depends on how advanced torpedo warp systems become: Can they feed the plasma torpedo warhead enough energy?
I think I mentioned this before, but I've now incorporated this torp tech into my works (initially on interstellar ballistic missiles, with the potential for future miniaturization) based on the tech specs of quantum torpedoes.
Since the zero-point energy (ZPE) release is triggered by an enhanced photorp warhead going off, the new Starfleet "next-gen quantum torpedo" starts off with the more powerful plasma torpedo warhead explosion:
"... Trilithium-based PLASMA torpedo warheads like those on Romulan plasma torpedoes are used to trigger zero-point energy reactions immediately before the ISBMs hit their target. This effectively outsources the massive power and fuel drainages associated with plasma torpedoes to the actual ISBMs themselves, while eliminating the notorious dissipation problem associated with such..."
The ISBMs' warp systems, in their last hoorah before shutting down, feed the first-reaction plasma torpedo warhead system. The potential for future miniaturization depends on how advanced torpedo warp systems become: Can they feed the plasma torpedo warhead enough energy?
Trust me. You do NOT want to hear the explanation for that one. I heard Stallone explain it once, and it ain't pretty.
Basically you use two of the seashells as 'pincers' and scrape off what's left with the third.
Here's my suggested Trek tech: A piece of clothing that can instantly reshape itself on the user's whim. Touch a control, and it's a Starfleet uniform. Do it again, and it's a tuxedo. Touch it *again*, and it's a sweatshirt and jeans. Etc. Combining transporter with replicator technology.
Starfleet shuttles that look like the classic concept of a UFO (flying saucer with no visible nacelles) and dart around seeming to move instantly from one point to another.
I'd simply add a warp drive to the saucer section of a Galaxy class starship. For a saucer that size, it seems strange that Starfleet apparently never gave it warp drive. Even a runabout can travel at warp.
All Seeing Eye
Admiral
^ Erm, thats one of the reasons they designed the Prometheus. 
In another episode Sheriden was telling I think a reporter where the bathrooms were.
How about the autocrapper: by implanting a site-to-site transporter, or at least a sensor and location tracker for the main computer to monitor and lock onto, into your colon and into your bladder, then you never have to use the rest room again. They just beam it out of you!
All Seeing Eye
Admiral
The problem with beaming piss and crap out of ya is that the human race will evolve into a species unable to piss and crap without a transporter, in other words if future humans get trapped somewhere without a transporter available they'll die from an inability to drop da bomb.
^ I agree. Better to stick with gee-whiz spaceship technologies and devices that have nothing to do with personal sanitation and hygiene.
I actually thought up a super-starship about 15 years ago. It was like a "city in space". Not quite like Stargate's Atlantis, but definitely an uber-mothership capable of carrying a small fleet of starships from one galaxy to another. It was supposed to be either 26th or 27th century, and the design came from the Klingons after they had joined the Federation.
Would that fit in this thread?
I actually thought up a super-starship about 15 years ago. It was like a "city in space". Not quite like Stargate's Atlantis, but definitely an uber-mothership capable of carrying a small fleet of starships from one galaxy to another. It was supposed to be either 26th or 27th century, and the design came from the Klingons after they had joined the Federation.
Would that fit in this thread?
