Tos warp nacelles dome? Material

[MantaBase]

This is a universe that has artificial gravity and wall-like force fields. Presumably they can do things with energy fields beyond what real-world theory allows.

Fair enough lol. But keep in mind I am trying to explain that tech with with *plausible* theory. Oh, and you *had* to mention artificial gravity. Probably the 2nd most improbable tech there is. I can theorize AG - but I can't do it in a way that looks like what you see on screen.

I was referring to your statement "and they were never called that to my knowledge." I wasn't addressing what they do, merely whether the name "Bussard collector" was used -- which it was, though only in TNG and Voyager.

Oh - I understood that. I just assumed you knew the "controversy" (if you can call it that) of referring to them (TOS era) as such. For some folks it's a no-no. I think it is semantics, but I also think they are not exactly the same. I pointed it out not to be snotty, but to emphasize what I see as the differences. I never got into TNG and the others as much (but I am a fan) - so I have not studied the tech. If by then they were referring to them that way, I get it. Of course it opens the door to, if the term got generalized, or if they always were - or if there was a tech change. *shrug* We will likely never know and I suspect the writers never really thought about it.

Anyways - discussions like this are good (for me at least) - so thanks.

 

[Christopher]

Oh - I understood that. I just assumed you knew the "controversy" (if you can call it that) of referring to them (TOS era) as such. For some folks it's a no-no.

And that attitude doesn't make sense to me. Every ongoing fictional series is a work in progress that gets new ideas and refinements added to it over time. As a rule, it's the later ideas that take precedence. That's why it's James T. Kirk instead of James R. Kirk, why Spock is a half-Vulcan instead of a Vulcanian with a distant human ancestor, why the Enterprise is a Federation Starfleet ship instead of an Earth ship operated by UESPA, etc.

 

[MantaBase]

Oh - I understood that. I just assumed you knew the "controversy" (if you can call it that) of referring to them (TOS era) as such. For some folks it's a no-no.

And that attitude doesn't make sense to me. Every ongoing fictional series is a work in progress that gets new ideas and refinements added to it over time. As a rule, it's the later ideas that take precedence. That's why it's James T. Kirk instead of James R. Kirk, why Spock is a half-Vulcan instead of a Vulcanian with a distant human ancestor, why the Enterprise is a Federation Starfleet ship instead of an Earth ship operated by UESPA, etc.

Well, I don't like attitude either, but I do understand some of it. This is fiction. So there is no reality to pin it down and make it "real". For a fan, that is an issue. So, they (including me at times) tend to pin it on canon....or their own personal version of it. And then defend it. And I get that, because if it is constantly in flux and being retro-updated, then it gives a feeling that it's not "real" - nothing is certain. So, I tolerate folks that have staunch views, as long as they tolerate me when I try to pin this fiction to reality (a hobby) and in the process bend the fiction just a tad bit - or fill in some of the gaps.