What is your personal head canon?

[kkt]

Chiropractor noted it. LOL Said I need to be stretched out on the rack to get some of my height back...

Procrustes is your chiropractor. Good thing you're not too tall

 

[Lord Other]

Early on, I thought Kruge’s BoP was similar—and/or had a different FTL.

I thought maybe, at the time of the release of Star Trek III, the "anti-matter inducer" could be something "different" than the warp drive the Federation uses, but Star Trek IV more or less nixed that idea.

 

[Count Korbula]

The tiny Type-15 ShuttlePods feel like the VW Bug equivalent of Shuttle Craft.
It's so damn tiny & cramp, yes it can go Warp, but it's sibling Shuttle Crafts are larger, better, faster, & more comfortable with it's much larger interior space.

Sadly, not every mission justifies the use of the larger Shuttle Craft, so sometimes you have to take out the smaller Shuttle Pod for your mission.
You usually don't need to take the SUV to go for a grocery run, a compact car can accomplish the same thing w/ less resources expended & put at risk.

if those ones CAN'T go to warp, even a limited, low-factor, ten there is essentially no point in them existing. and iirc they were used in episodes where they *had* to have gone to warp in order for the story to have worked.

 

[Count Korbula]

True, but, one of the 'old' ideas that I remember being bandied about was the "magical " nature of the matter/antimatter reaction...
You will find that this is mentioned in TMOST in the chapter named 'The USS Enterprise ' - only a matter/antimatter reaction is "strong" enough to power warp drive.

But...

Energy is Energy.

So a fusion reaction should be "good enough ".


Theoretically a gasoline internal combination engine could...

But terrible MPG...

So, simple impulse is good enough for warp factor two...

An oversized fusion reactor, with a plasma accelerator plus a symmetric warp field governor good enough for warp factor three...

An antimatter spiked version good enough for warp factor four, and with multiple plasma accelerators warp factor five...again using antimatter to spike the plasma accelerators.

This is what I see.

i never liked the retcon that they always used the singularities and it only read as
i prefer that they just went along the branches of the "tech trees" differently

iirc wasn't the phoenix essentially implied to have used the fissile materials from the former warhead as reactor elements?

 

[GhoulEddie74]

It certainly didn't use dilithium, not in the year 2063 and on Earth!

 

[knightgrace]

The Hydrogen bomb, atop the Titan missile, was the source of power for the Phoenix. But it is also implied to be short term only.

But! It was only a small supply...