Let's say that it was a phenomenon that lasted, perhaps, a few days. There may have been no awareness of what had happened to all the disappearing ships, no way of connecting it to the use of dilithium at warp.
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Any fear does.
The "burned" dilithium was on ships at warp. The Burn wasn't caused by extended use. What ever fail safes that were in place were useless in the Burn.
where did I hear this before? Ah, sure, Shatner’s novels!
Never read any of his writings, but I also wouldn't claim to have an original thought.
It could depend on how dilithium is mined.
Meaning, in its "raw" form, it might not be harmed by the Burn - only when it's processed and refined into its final form which is used in a ship's warp engine.
Thus, dilithium that is mined after the Burn would not be affected.
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All the burn did was make dilithium inert, as if some kind of radiation in it gave it its abilities. Something we’ve never heard before. People wore it as jewelry. That means it just stopped working. That’s as good a cracking. Maybe less bad.
what about the exploding ships then?
Well the inert state caused ships to explode. So that's pretty bad. Much worse that running out of gas.
You can’t defend bad writing and unthought out discrepancies with themselves. If it was only dilithium at warp why is it so rare? How many ships would have been in port? How much dilithium is still in the ground somewhere? Makes no sense.
Not sure what "bad writing" you're referring to. The ships at warp exploded because something happened to the dilithium used in their warp drives. Seems fine to me.
And a ship that’s designed to explode if something proven to fail fails is stupid.
That's most of Trek then.
What Federation? There is none in this planetary system. As far as we know, there is one class m planet and one scientific station on Titan. Moreover, we know that 600 years ago there were some colonies and a space station and that is all. We do not know whether they still exist, whether they were perhaps relocated, for example, 277 years earlier, and so on.
0.00015081ly distance from the Sun to Titan
4,37ly distance to Alpha Centauri
Indeed, everything fits. Especially the implications of a lack of dilithium. Do you still want to criticise the screenwriters and scientific advisors?
That’s most of TNG and forward. Ships didn’t explode in TOS unless you forced them to. It’s always been dumb.
I mean, exploding consoles strike as being the same.
Not going to disagree. That only happened on TOS twice, though. It’s not an every other ep thing until later TNG seasons.
Obviously it's "failing" in an unprecedented way. That happens quite often on Star Trek.
"The tech can't tech!"
"But that's impossible! The tech has a fail safe!"
"Never the less, the tech can not tech!"
This is basic stuff in drama. So I'm still unsure where the "bad writing" come in.
Maybe they should rename it "frylithium"?
As long as they don't run on too much "frylithium", they should be good. If they have too much, it'll clog up their system.