What powers the saucer section?
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The dolphins are swimming really fast in their dolphin wheels, generating power.
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Would have liked to see alternate Saucer designs/replacements (a Galaxy Saucer with two smaller nacelles and an extension for independent warp capability), A Sovereign/Voyager styled saucer that would fit on the Galaxy star-drive section and a post DS9 era Battle Monitor that takes the Defiant concept and scales it up, bristling with quantum torpedo launchers and pulse phasers, perhaps with a Pegasus style interphasic cloak.
That last one would be the opposite of the TNG concept. In battle, it drops off the battle section to fight while the star drive can take the families away to safety.
Then perhaps a carrier variant that has a bunch of the DS9 fighters and runabouts (even more than a Galaxy would already have).
That last one would be the opposite of the TNG concept. In battle, it drops off the battle section to fight while the star drive can take the families away to safety.
Then perhaps a carrier variant that has a bunch of the DS9 fighters and runabouts (even more than a Galaxy would already have).
What if...
Before and during separation, all shuttles are launched that have had modifications to magnetically polarize their hulls and they attached to the saucer section, generated a warp field ... could that be used for bringing the saucer to warp?
Before and during separation, all shuttles are launched that have had modifications to magnetically polarize their hulls and they attached to the saucer section, generated a warp field ... could that be used for bringing the saucer to warp?
Only if the fields can cover the entire saucer, and it would need to be VERY precisely synchronised (if it's even possible to "combine" warp fields into one big field) or you'd get the same sort of effect as when the Solvang tried to warp when grappled by the Pakled ship in No Small Parts.
Not me, Engineer extraordinaire Geordi LaForge would make it happen, so it can happen. If the plot requires it to happen.
The flux capacitor.
That's to keep the fish tank running and the tea, Early grey, hot.
But only if you Get Back In Time.
You're probably thinking of the Oscillation Overthruster. Common mistake.
It works like the other half.
In other words, fairy dust and magic beans, trussed up in pseudo-scientific gobbledygook.
In other words, fairy dust and magic beans, trussed up in pseudo-scientific gobbledygook.
Oscillation overthruster
No matter where you go, there you are.
This, the saucer not having warp drive is dumb and Encounter at Farpoint already showed that it must be able to go to warp because it made it to Farpoint under its own power.
From the moment the ship turned around and fled from Q's net until the stardrive turned around after separation they were at high warp (over warp 9) for over 5 minutes. Warp 9 is somewhere between 900 and 1800 times the speed of light based on dialog in TNG and Voyager, let's be conservative and assume the ship traveled at 1000 times the speed of light and they did it for 5 minutes. Full impulse is a 0.25 time the speed of light, 4000 times slower. So it would have taken he saucer 20,000 minutes or 333.333 hours or 13.8 days to make it back to where Q stopped the Enterprise initially and they wouldn't even have reached Farpoint yet.
It also makes no sense to design a saucer that's essentially a giant life boat and not give it a warp drive, should the stardrive be lost the saucer would sit in the middle of nowhere and be stuck. That might work for a ship in federation space where help is likely to arrive soon but the Enterprise's original mission was to leave federation space and explore the great unknown.
The blue squares being arboretum windows is also a weird idea, while ceiling windows are a cool feature for a public space the arboretum is probably the last place I'd use them, why would I have what's basically a permanent night sky over an inside forest? A holographic ceiling simulating a sky and a day/night cycle makes more sense.
It's been declared unethical by Starfleet four times but nobody listens.
18 billion of them, in a little room on Deck 7. They have an unlucky redshirt assigned to the job of feeding them and cleaning the cages.
One episode they escape and fuckin scratch the redshirt to death or like. eat him or something
You joke about that, but has Trek, across any of its shows, done an animal horror episode where some kind of creature in great number attack the ship or the crew like some kind of horror B-movie? If not, some Trek writer needs to get on that.
The Trouble With Edward from Short Treks.
They had two-dimensional lemmings in "The Loss".
The macroviruses in Voyager and the de-evolved crew members in TNG's "Genesis."
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