Spare Warp Coils?

[sojourner]

through the continuum.

Rick

Ooooo, the Q aren't going to be happy with that! young wipper snappers runnin their warp coils through the continuum!!

 

[DonIago]

No wonder they so often come across as irritated parents.

"Get your warp coils off my continuum! Darn kids!!!"

 

[Saquist]

*snort* Who disturbs me at this time?

Ahem. Uh, warp coils used to be wound, yeah, but now the best ones are pressure-cast to preserve all the flavor of the-- sorry; still sleepy. What was I saying? Right; it's kinda like talking about dialing the phone when there's no more dials. "Coils" are now more like big solid U-magnets juiced by the hot plasma in particular sequences to achieve motion through the continuum.

Rick

I've always wondered...

How exactly is the electro-plasma "injected" into the coils?
What material in the coil produces the subspace field and how? Doesn't it have to be some sort of Exotic Matter?

 

[SicOne]

*snort* Who disturbs me at this time?

Ahem. Uh, warp coils used to be wound, yeah, but now the best ones are pressure-cast to preserve all the flavor of the-- sorry; still sleepy. What was I saying? Right; it's kinda like talking about dialing the phone when there's no more dials. "Coils" are now more like big solid U-magnets juiced by the hot plasma in particular sequences to achieve motion through the continuum.

Rick

Nice to know a few Cthulhu references can draw you out!

Thanks for not taking over the world before returning to the slumbering depths!

 

[Captain Rob]

Unbelievable. I can't believe that worked.
I think in "Damage" they should have called it something else. In one episode of TNG (bad with titles) we saw inside of one of the nacelles. Where Troy got a psychic impression of someone who died there during construction. We saw on the floor of the forward compartment a big sparkplug looking thing that injected warp plasme down the center of the nacelle. Which I guess reacted with the big warp coils in the nacelle. Wouldn't that be called a warp plasma injector assembly? That would have made more sense.
I know some people hate techno-babble but stuff gotta have names.
I always thought it was funny that the Enterprise-D's nacelles were basically hollow.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

*snort* Who disturbs me at this time?

Ahem. Uh, warp coils used to be wound, yeah, but now the best ones are pressure-cast to preserve all the flavor of the-- sorry; still sleepy. What was I saying? Right; it's kinda like talking about dialing the phone when there's no more dials. "Coils" are now more like big solid U-magnets juiced by the hot plasma in particular sequences to achieve motion through the continuum.

Rick

I've always wondered...

How exactly is the electro-plasma "injected" into the coils?

Magnets!

 

[Rick Sternbach]

I've always wondered...

How exactly is the electro-plasma "injected" into the coils?
What material in the coil produces the subspace field and how? Doesn't it have to be some sort of Exotic Matter?

Topologically, the entire warp plasma system is one huge enclosed space, beginning with the warp core, traveling through the PTCs, and finally into the nacelles. The M/A reaction produces the hot plasma, the energy floods the space and surrounds the nacelle coils. Precisely how the plasma is pulsed into the nacelles is what the mag-field-lined nacelle injectors are for. If the injectors are triggered fore-aft, the ship moves ahead. Triggered aft-fore, the ship backs up. Differential triggering of the valves can effect turns and other maneuvers.

Yes, the coils themselves are some exotic alloys and layered materials that produce a measurable motive force when exposed to waves of plasma.

Rick

 

[Timo]

In "Eye of the Beholder", we see a plasma stream that might to go along the central axis of the coil set, after being diverted from a vertical stream between a bottom and a top injector at one end of the set. In various blueprints, we see injectors next to each coil, though. So does the axial plasma flow play some crucial role here, too? Or is the part of the system we see in "Eye" just some sort of a return loop that perhaps collects the used, cooled plasma for reheating or other re-energizing?

Timo Saloniemi

 

[DonIago]

The warp coil assemblies are considered a high-security portion of the ship, consequently the blueprints are intentionally misleading. Happily, Eye of the Beholder comes from flight recorder footage and telepathic probes, so we know we can rely on it!

 

[Saquist]

I've always wondered...

How exactly is the electro-plasma "injected" into the coils?
What material in the coil produces the subspace field and how? Doesn't it have to be some sort of Exotic Matter?

Topologically, the entire warp plasma system is one huge enclosed space, beginning with the warp core, traveling through the PTCs, and finally into the nacelles. The M/A reaction produces the hot plasma, the energy floods the space and surrounds the nacelle coils. Precisely how the plasma is pulsed into the nacelles is what the mag-field-lined nacelle injectors are for. If the injectors are triggered fore-aft, the ship moves ahead. Triggered aft-fore, the ship backs up. Differential triggering of the valves can effect turns and other maneuvers.

Yes, the coils themselves are some exotic alloys and layered materials that produce a measurable motive force when exposed to waves of plasma.

Rick

.....wow. That, sir, was impressive.