Tetryon Plasma?

[Captain_Amasov]

In the Voyager episode "Non Sequitur" we see a Yellowstone-class runabout vent tetryon plasma from its nacelles to "stall" a pursuing Nebula-class starship. It does this because apparently the plasma emits "multiflux" gamma radiation, which disrupts subspace.

So, how would the warp drive work on this ship since it would need to form a subspace field to warp space wouldn't it? Also wasn't it said that tetryons only exist in subspace?

It seems strange that a subspace particle would be used to disrupt the very environment that it can only exist in. Wouldn't it have been better to have used some form of tetryon anti-particle instead.

 

[Kemaiku]

Technobabble, don't trouble your head rationalising it.

 

[Sandoval]

Technobabble, don't trouble your head rationalising it.

Bravo.

 

[Kemaiku]

Technobabble, don't trouble your head rationalising it.

Bravo.

It's Voyager, it's not worth it.

 

[YARN]

The name of the episode is Non-Sequitur, so...

 

[Timo]

Then again, today's air-breathing engines would have real trouble working in the fumes of another air-breathing engine. And things would get especially nasty in this respect if one invented an engine that generated fumes deliberately - i.e. a turbojet.

It might be another application of the no-free-lunch principle: to get A, you have to balance it with giving up anti-A, which makes it all the more difficult for others to get A.

Timo Saloniemi