The protowarp drive uses dilithium
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At least when the writers realized actual lithium has very limited properties when it comes to powering an advanced spaceship they added the "di-" prefix to the name.
I don't know if they ever actually banned it from water at a town hall but we can only hope.
While I'm enjoying this season, I have to say that whoever is in charge of putting together titles for the episodes this go around is astoundingly lazy.
Edit: I mean, the Betazoid episode is named Beta Test. The away mission is named Come, Let's Away. The SAM focused episode is just her name in long form.
These really feel like working titles for the writer's room, and then no one thought to rename them.
Edit: I mean, the Betazoid episode is named Beta Test. The away mission is named Come, Let's Away. The SAM focused episode is just her name in long form.
These really feel like working titles for the writer's room, and then no one thought to rename them.
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2381: That torpedo was mass produced, miniaturized, and regularly used for terraforming.
The The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail, the whole episode was about a pre-warp ship that cobbled together a warp drive using Aldentium as a fuel source.
A tiny bit for it's exotic matter matrix, and unlike running Anti-Matter streams through it that wouldn't degrade it.
At least “come, let’s away” is a Shakespeare reference, which is a Trek staple at this point.
It also seems to be Captain Chi's catchphrase to go to warp, from a shot in the comic that one of the actors reposted.
So that's a screencap from the comic they used in the episode? Because that uniform looks exactly like a TOS uniform. Not even a SNW uniform.
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what i am trying to say is when star trek discovery i think time traveled a thousands years later into the way way more future in season 3 to 5 that was the i guess beginning of the new timeline or was it timeframe of the star trek tv universe then after discovery ended the sequel was star trek starfleet academy
It's a timeframe. Meaning the time that the show takes place in. In this case, the 32nd Century.
Okay. Correct, I guess? Sorry, but you have that written in a very confusing way.
Punctuation is your friend.
And has benefits.
I mean it's a drawing. There's a chance the uniforms may have had detail that couldn't transfer to the art work. Also the fact the comic is about Starfleet in it's heyday that the author may have used artistic license and chosen to depict the crew in classic 'golden age of starfleet' costumes.
My personal head canon is that the Federation and Starfleet were returning to and celebrating their core values after the devastation of the Temporal War. They built the constitution class to honour the original class and what it represented and built the Courage and Friendship classes and named them after core values of both Starfleet and the Federation and they had uniforms that were bright and hopeful. Then the Burn hits and it all goes to shit.
My point is that if they are going to retcon the visual distinctiveness of TOS, then they should be consistent with it. In this retconned prime universe, it should have been the SNW uniforms used in the comic, not TOS, if the comic was supposed to be a representation of the 23rd century. But I haven’t seen the episode so perhaps my judgments are faulty.
Unless this is a way of semi-confirming the idea that TOS was an in-universe dramatization of Kirk's logs, as some have suggested.
Yeah you probably should watch the episode, because you don't know what you are talking about. They aren't retconning anything. It's a comic book that was written post-burn by someone who probably didn't live in the period that the comic depicts, which is the late 31st century. There's no indication if the uniforms depicted ARE the uniforms that were worn during that period or whether it was some type of artistic license by an author who had never known or met Starfleet officers.
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