Which era of Trek tech is your favourite?

[lennier1]

I remember feeling profoundly underwhelmed when seeing the bridge of the Relativity.

Agreed. They should have had floating holographic interfaces (for example).

True. Remember the DS9 episode where Sisko was traveling through time and only showed up for short periods after several years?
Even the alternate future in which the DS9 crew were old farts was supposed to have three-dimensional displays (they complained about Defiant only having outdated two-dimensional ones). But I guess that would´ve killed the budget after all the effects "Relativity" already had.

 

[friedebarth]

Well I don't like TOS and the TOS movies anyway, so I believe there's only one left.

But in actual fact, I prefer 25th-30th century the most

 

[Mr. B]

Before someone mentions the 29th Century stuff, no, I don't like it. Too far removed from MY Trek.

IMO, it wasn't removed enough.

I remember feeling profoundly underwhelmed when seeing the bridge of the Relativity.

Combining their teleportation device and the rest of the bridge on the same set made it pretty apparent just how little money they had left. I wonder if any more interesting set designs were drawn up before the accountants stepped in.

 

[Karnbeln]

Before someone mentions the 29th Century stuff, no, I don't like it. Too far removed from MY Trek.

IMO, it wasn't removed enough.

I remember feeling profoundly underwhelmed when seeing the bridge of the Relativity.

I don't like how future ships all still have warp engines. This is 5 centuries from the 24th. 5 before it, we were using steam technology. It doesn't feel right.

Cut off the warp pods. Make some other part of the ship glow if you're stuck on that. You don't have to come up with what the engine is, how it works, how it's different from warp. Just let us see visually that it's DIFFERENT from what Voyager uses.

 

[Praetor]

^The Relativity and Aeon didn't have warp nacelles. They had wings with some kind of warp 'discs' in them - perhaps self-contained reactor/field generators?

I think the reason 29th century and beyond tech was not shown to be as advanced as it probably would actually be is because of the 'magic' rule - it would be so advanced it wouldn't seem to be technology at all.

 

[rramarr]

Voyager, 24th century - The further away from that flying saucer look the better.

 

[c0rnedfr0g]

The Relativity didn't even really seem to need to use Warp to travel in the conventional sense. It seemed like it just programmed in the date and spatial coordinates, shot some blue ray in front, and could use travel through the spatial rift via Impulse drive.

Theoretically, it could travel across the galaxy in an instant by just programming the spatial coordinates and perhaps 1 second into the future

 

[NCC-1701-B]

I chose Movie era, because of the enterprise b, (suppose i could have chosen 24th century because of the Lakota) ships count as technology, so i love the design of the excelsior 2, its like a fore runner to the sovereign class. And i love movie lcars, like has been said, clean touchiness, with some switch flicks!

 

[Bill Morris]

I prefer the 24th century and would like to see more of it.

 

[Birdog]

I chose movie era because it seems the most like real hardware.

 

[Karnbeln]

^The Relativity and Aeon didn't have warp nacelles. They had wings with some kind of warp 'discs' in them - perhaps self-contained reactor/field generators?

I think the reason 29th century and beyond tech was not shown to be as advanced as it probably would actually be is because of the 'magic' rule - it would be so advanced it wouldn't seem to be technology at all.

Whoops. To tell you the truth I don't remember the Relativity, I just remember thinking that about that sometime and assumed it must have been about those ships. I wonder what I'm thinking of.

 

[Praetor]

^The Relativity and Aeon didn't have warp nacelles. They had wings with some kind of warp 'discs' in them - perhaps self-contained reactor/field generators?

I think the reason 29th century and beyond tech was not shown to be as advanced as it probably would actually be is because of the 'magic' rule - it would be so advanced it wouldn't seem to be technology at all.

Whoops. To tell you the truth I don't remember the Relativity, I just remember thinking that about that sometime and assumed it must have been about those ships. I wonder what I'm thinking of.

Well, the Enterprise-J still had nacelles. I think it was the 26th century.

 

[Thor Damar]

I'm going with the 24th century. Mostly because I like the look of late 24th Century Starfleet vessels and for the Romulan and Cardassian tech of course!

 

[Tomalak]

I remember feeling profoundly underwhelmed when seeing the bridge of the Relativity.

Agreed. They should have had floating holographic interfaces (for example).

How true. It's a bit embarrassing that MI6 in the latest Bond film looked more futuristic than a 29th century timeship. Though arguably that says more about Quantum of Solace than a decade-old Star Trek episode.

 

[c0rnedfr0g]

Does a ship that utilizes Quantum Slipstream even need nacelles? Or do those ships have warp nacelles as a backup, presumably due to an unreliability in slipstream technology?

 

[JNG]

Does a ship that utilizes Quantum Slipstream even need nacelles? Or do those ships have warp nacelles as a backup, presumably due to an unreliability in slipstream technology?

We don't know, but the nacelles on "Dauntless" didn't look vestigial to me, and I wouldn't be surprised if generating subspace fields in that way is still important and useful.

 

[c0rnedfr0g]

Does a ship that utilizes Quantum Slipstream even need nacelles? Or do those ships have warp nacelles as a backup, presumably due to an unreliability in slipstream technology?

We don't know, but the nacelles on "Dauntless" didn't look vestigial to me, and I wouldn't be surprised if generating subspace fields in that way is still important and useful.

I remember this ship supposedly having slipstream, with somewhat smaller nacelles.

 

[Karnbeln]

Maybe slipstream drive just opens the slipstream, and you still need another form of propulsion to travel through it.

 

[Praetor]

IIRC, the slipstream has something to do with the deflector operating in concert with the warp engines, and the Voyager herself was able to do it with a modified power core in 'Timeless.' How the Delta Flyer could be able to go ahead of her without having its own slipstream drive I have never fully understood. Surely building one for the Flyer too would have been an impressive feat? That episode treated the addition of the Flyer to the plan as a tack-on.

Anyway, perhaps the deflector creates a 'focus' for the subspace field generated by the nacelles and is thereby what opens the slipstream conduit, and the nacelles are still required to maintain the conduit and push the ship through at the same time?

 

[gwud]

I'm a big fan of the 24th Century tech, I like how efficient and cool to the touch everything seems, plus its the newest so it must be the best! LCARS looks like such a nice interface to use too, no buttons or levers for me.