Star trek doesn't work

[Kerock]

Well flip phones and tablets worked ... and the medical tricorder

 

[uniderth]

The galaxy isn't held together by a magical mushroom network

It isn't in the Star Trek universe either.

 

[Herbert]

so star trek is a failed concept of technology that didn't work and has been kept vague or re-worded in order to keep the futuristic show alive. Although some aspect may have been added, the ship propulsion method originally concepted is not functional to the level of the show, but the show continues by making warp drive technically vague or uses fictional wording stemming from the original concept of plasma propulsion with spatial fields. OR So I have been told...
"In time, Spatial fields may come our way, but Plasma technology does not work"

So the plasma failure to behave significantly enough to be a benefit "makes the ship not go"

It's called science fiction.

 

[Tenacity]

The galaxy isn't held together by a magical mushroom network

are you saying that gene roddenberry never did magic mushrooms while creating the star trek universe?

 

[at Quark's]

Suppose for a second it did work. Don't you think the American military would have occupied all sites immediately, to secure those technologies for the US, and prevents the soviets from gaining it? We'd never have gotten another "star trek" episode after the pilot

 

[MacLeod]

so star trek is a failed concept of technology that didn't work and has been kept vague or re-worded in order to keep the futuristic show alive. Although some aspect may have been added, the ship propulsion method originally concepted is not functional to the level of the show, but the show continues by making warp drive technically vague or uses fictional wording stemming from the original concept of plasma propulsion with spatial fields. OR So I have been told...
"In time, Spatial fields may come our way, but Plasma technology does not work"

So the plasma failure to behave significantly enough to be a benefit "makes the ship not go"

Except plasma technology does work (perhaps not to the scale used in ST for it's impulse drive) but it's early days yet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_propulsion_engine


Keeping things vague isn't always a bad thing, in terms of storytelling for example do we really need to know how the jump drive works in nBSG? Would it enhance the story if we were told?

But at the end of the day it's a work of fiction.

 

[Johnny7oak]

I would state that plasma propulsion featured in the show was not a workable science, but it was stated spatial fields such a warp field was more likely to show up in the future. I honestly believed in Plasma technology and found warp field to be daunting, but plausible that plasma technology could yield warp field research.


EDIT: Contained reaction that has minimal loss... and not a thruster type plasma engine is a warp nacelles concept. I believe it uses polarity. I could be wrong.

A hollow tube filled with plasma, with a shunt of plasma through the center... you can ionize sections of the hollow tube rapidly with electricity. so you do this to create a inductance of polarity on each stage in sequence generating thrust... like a magnetic train. you launch yourself apparently however that works, because the induction keeps the surge of active point of plasma going.

 

[marsh8472]

It works in Bennie Russell's imagination.

Then quote the traveler himself and it all makes sense

TRAVELLER: You do understand, don't you that thought is the basis of all reality? The energy of thought, to put it in your terms, is very powerful.