Where in Star Wars has that happened? There is nothing Star Wars about this. Star Trek has done a variety of different technologies that seem rather outlandish. Disconnected nacelles don't strike me as too far out there since power transfer from ship to ship would operate on the same principle.
1 - Not the dumbest but makes starships seem unnecessarily fragile. 2 - Yup, the whole point of Star Trek is that it highlights a better future for the citizens of Earth, surely... 3 - Facepalm. Same as the fairy-wings in *vomits* "Stardust City Rag" 4 - He's talking to the LCD people who this is aimed at...? At least this is what I assume... 5 - I can only explain this away as a mistake, they used the wrong footage. 6 - Anticlimactic but at least interesting. This was by far the most interesting part of the series.
but it’s not more complicated at that point: once the technology is mature enough it’s much simpler. Why build and maintain conduits when you can just beam over energy and matter as needed? In a real world example, and one spanning two decades, not a millennia... In the early 00s I had cabled our three story home with Ethernet cables so you could connect from any point in the house to the internet. Wireless technology existed but was slow and unreliable. By 2010 we connected in the same house using a couple of wireless stations. They are much easier to maintain than cables that can get disconnected and much more convenient. Where I live now I got rid even of the DSL and local wireless network: I connect straight to the cell tower with 4g, connecting the computer to the phone via Bluetooth. All this was SF in say 1995. The fact that the transporters have advanced to the point they are more convenient than physical means in certain situations is one of the few things I liked of how the 32th century is depicted (too bad for the useless turbolift cavern-city). If anything, especially considering the dilithium scarcity, I wonder why they don’t have transporters that’s can beam you across star systems: similar technologies have been shown several times in Star Trek, so they can obviously exist.
I like your analogy, I can imagine a time when the engines of a spacecraft are physically independent, it seems more efficient somehow doesn't it.
Also the transporters do pretty much render starships irrelevant by that point, coupled with the concept of interstellar beaming.
Yes. And this is probably the reason the writers chose to ignore this technology exists. Can’t blame them, as I still love having ships around. home at the stable?
I think Star Trek passed silly a while back. We are now at ludicrous speeds. I mean, the two engines were but they still had physical cables attaching them to the main pod. And, with due respect, the pod racing movie came out in 1999. Not exactly new.
With 2 exceptions (evil Starfleet admiral de jour and Breen attack at the end of the war), conditions on Earth weren't directly affected by DS9. Also your saddle. Every experienced rider has their own saddle.
i’m sure a man from 1920 would roll his eyes seeing how ubiquitous phones are now. Not to mention a man from the year 820.
I remember seeing this great quote online on how to blow someone's mind from the 1950s. It went something like...
Indeed. Usually technologies are added in Star Trek for story reasons. They either create the crisis of the week, or solve the crisis of the week. Or sometimes for budgetary purposes (transporters were created in TOS so they didn't have to show a shuttle landing in every episode). While some of the tech involved in figuring out the Burn was for story purposes, for the most part Discovery's Season 3's future-tech was basically just there to look cool, and had no story purpose whatsoever.