Most Impracticable Trek Technology

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Tranporters, Warp Speed, universal translators...ect, not withstanding to me the most impracticable trek technology has to be the Dyson Sphere. Realizing that a actual earth scientist, in the 1960's a scientist named Freeman Dyson proposed the idea.

Way to big, imagine trying to build a HUGE Sphere around an entire star, it makes transporter techonology seem easy to do...

Resistance is Futile

 

[Rÿcher]

The Dyson sphere concept is probably one of the best ideas since the wheel.

And surely whoever lived in the inside surface of the sphere didn't call it a Dyson sphere.

 

[Captain Zog]

Holodecks - 3-dimensional visual imagery that you can interact with may be possible someday, but the Holodock just takes things a step beyond believability.

Repilcators - Do you really think we'll have matter-energy converters that advanced even in 300 years time?

 

[2 of 10]

Just the scale of the project to me makes it seem unrealistic, the other techologies mentioned can be explored in labs and such, just how would you purpose to shield an entire star in a sphere, where do you start??

Resistance is Futile

 

[tranya]

Impracticable?

 

[Rÿcher]

strategery

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

The Dyson sphere concept is probably one of the best ideas since the wheel.

And surely whoever lived in the inside surface of the sphere didn't call it a Dyson sphere.

The concept is an excellent idea, but the episode didn't do it right. An actual Dyson sphere is a series of large structures arranged in a sphere, not a big solid shell. It's not as mind-boggingly expensive and it won't collapse under its own mass.

 

[jamestyler]

Repilcators - Do you really think we'll have matter-energy converters that advanced even in 300 years time?

It seems easy to me in comparison to transporters. If you can store the pattern in the system and replicate it elsewhere, it should surely be possible to save the file and replicate it whenever you wish.

I always thought the TNG phasers looked a little uncomfortable to hold, which might put them in the impractical category.

 

[Marie1]

I'd say we'll have transporters before replicators... but I think we'll just have to settle for doing things the old fashioned way.

I have to say, the steering on star ships bugs me- having to push so many buttons for every movement, it really causes trouble in battle. On that note, having all those programmed movements they use all the time, evasive patterns etc., seems silly because the movements can be tracked. The Jem'Hadar ships seem to have it better, if you look closely, theres a small area of manipulation, albeit awkward, and they can focus on 2 things at once... but those viewers for one eye also seem... kinda dumb... just use a view screen!!

 

[Cyke101]

Impracticable?

I'm adding that word to my personal lexicon

 

[Ghrakh]

Universal translators, by far. First, there are people who speak my language here on Earth that I can barely understand, how is a computer going to account for dialect, bad grammar, etc. on the fly, in addition to the task of figuring out the language to begin with? Second, I never understood how the translated vocals managed to match the lip movements seen. Further, does either party hear both the actual speaking voice and a translated one?

Well, it's just a plot device.

 

[NCC1968]

Heisenburg's ideas make us thing that the transporter is not going to happen.

The Dyson sphere to me seems nutty because it would be so massive that it probably would not be worth the effort to build it..............mass of many planets to construct.

 

[roguephoenix]

strategery

exagemeration

 

[Thirishar]

Impracticable?

 

[Mr. B]

The dyson sphere is the most obvious stretch. The transporter in its form on the show is the least plausible in my opinion as it would have to 'freeze' and restart a working human brain.

 

[Hermiod]

I'd go with the Dyson Sphere too.

 

[TheSeeker]

Heisenburg's ideas make us thing that the transporter is not going to happen.

That's why transporters have the Heisenberg compensator.

 

[SonicRanger]

I'd go with the Dyson Sphere too.

I'm afraid I must do the same. The amount of mass in that thing is almost unfathomable.

 

[Guartho]

Just the scale of the project to me makes it seem unrealistic

but is scale really relevant once you have virtually limitless energy + the ability to turn energy into matter? Perhaps self-replicating solar-powered replicators were used to construct the sphere itself. If each one made two, wash, rinse, repeat, than a Dyson Sphere becomes entirely plausible. It would seem that the 24th century technology is not far from being able to start one themselves.

 

[Freakness]

transporters seem pretty unlikely.