Why wasn't voyager at warp 9 100% of the time?
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Coasting would only work for a very short period. In most episodes once warp drive is off, the ship falls back into normal space and sub light speeds. The only time this didn't happen was in TNG's Force of Nature.
Minimal damage if any. It was a fake out on to keep the Cardassians from knowing where the actual planet needed was.
Yes it was eco friendly warp drive, but that doesn't eliminate the need for the ship to slow down to conserve fuel, refuel the anti matter and deutrium supply, recalibrate the warp field, study areas of space where they might make new friends, resupply, pick up parts, restock on food and other perishables for the mess hall, let the engines cool off, look for worm holes or other short cuts, land and do major work, and to visit planets just to let the crew get out of the never ending chore of working 24/7 and get off the ship. They were all willing to take the ship all the way home, but even the strongest of wills would need a little break now and again.
Not really, it is just one of those plot contrivances all sci-fi in the vein of Trek suffers from.
It is easily explained away as their conserving of fuel and need to explore.
You must drive a GM.
As a matter of fact, I do!
I drive a Pontiac Sunfire. Mine can, but since I've already gotten two speeding tickets in the past year (
), I've been a bit more careful not to go too far over the limit."It was explained they reconfigured all existing warp engines so they could work normally without destroying the universe. "
i do not believe it was every explained on screen
there was the 1 episode where warp proved harmful
a few episodes later they mention the warp restriction
and that was literally ALL mention of that problem
its a fan exlpanation
"It was explained they reconfigured all existing warp engines so they could work normally without destroying the universe. "
but a plausible one (explaining why ds9 and voy and all of tng cept 1 brief mention ignored that tng ep)
imagine the thousands of ships in the huge fleets during ds9
probboly all traveling a high warp together
yes warp drive had to be redone shortly after that TNG revelation
nothing on screen though
i do not believe it was every explained on screen
there was the 1 episode where warp proved harmful
a few episodes later they mention the warp restriction
and that was literally ALL mention of that problem
its a fan exlpanation
"It was explained they reconfigured all existing warp engines so they could work normally without destroying the universe. "
but a plausible one (explaining why ds9 and voy and all of tng cept 1 brief mention ignored that tng ep)
imagine the thousands of ships in the huge fleets during ds9
probboly all traveling a high warp together
yes warp drive had to be redone shortly after that TNG revelation
nothing on screen though
It would be like driving at 100 MPH every time you get in your car. The engine would wear out very, very fast.
also
contradicting the holodecks on another energy grid theory
in basics part 1
doctor suggests holographic talaxian ships to distract the kazon, draw fire
kim says it will take a LOT of power from the reserves
later torres said they cant spare any more power from the weapons to the holo emitters
contradicting the holodecks on another energy grid theory
in basics part 1
doctor suggests holographic talaxian ships to distract the kazon, draw fire
kim says it will take a LOT of power from the reserves
later torres said they cant spare any more power from the weapons to the holo emitters
Even if you kept your engine in tip top shape, you'd run out of gas that much quicker over a shorter distance, too. And running out of dilithium in the gulfs of space = dead.
they can recystalize dylthium according to TNG relics. Dueteriuum is made from beating up Hydrogen which can be collected from water or even space.
Yet neither of those is likely to be the answer to a fuel shortage. It probably takes quite a bit of power to recrystallize dilithium once you ruin it by running it too hot and hard; and turning hydrogen into deuterium or other fusionable stuff is gonna be energy-expensive, too.
Mind you, the ship never really had a fuel shortage in an episode, save for "Demon". Between episodes, we don't really know. Probably fueling was fairly simple at least when outside Kazon or Borg territory, but "Demon" seems to indicate that it required pit stops on planets that had either good, preprocessed deuterium or then at least sufficiently deuterium-rich water. Sooner or later, our heroes were bound to run out of luck in that respect.
Timo Saloniemi
Mind you, the ship never really had a fuel shortage in an episode, save for "Demon". Between episodes, we don't really know. Probably fueling was fairly simple at least when outside Kazon or Borg territory, but "Demon" seems to indicate that it required pit stops on planets that had either good, preprocessed deuterium or then at least sufficiently deuterium-rich water. Sooner or later, our heroes were bound to run out of luck in that respect.
Timo Saloniemi
In kirks time dilithium was seem as feul because it was perishable, but if the recystalization is automatic, which is what I got from what Geordi said, as well as Wes "growing" Dilitium Fragments for the Hathaway during those wargames with the Enterprise... Dilithium is as good to go as an everlasting gobstopper always. Essential but everlasting.
Besides it's always been a matter antimatter reaction which powers starship, though what about "resin" which was a waste product for the episode Picard was pretending to be Mott the Barbar in a very good Pisstake on Paul Blart M... I mean Die hard.
That evil pitstop in ent deadstop voice acted by Roxanne Dawson wanted Enterprise's warp engine waste product for probably no good, but then they also thought Mayweathers brain could lit a a few neon bulbs.
Besides it's always been a matter antimatter reaction which powers starship, though what about "resin" which was a waste product for the episode Picard was pretending to be Mott the Barbar in a very good Pisstake on Paul Blart M... I mean Die hard.
That evil pitstop in ent deadstop voice acted by Roxanne Dawson wanted Enterprise's warp engine waste product for probably no good, but then they also thought Mayweathers brain could lit a a few neon bulbs.
Why would the crew of a starship that is 70 light years away from home be stupid enough to travel at Warp 9 at all times? Especially when one had to consider maintaining fuel in a part of the universe that is unfamiliar, along with dealing with major ship repairs?
They also had fuel shortages in mid-Season 1 and a ship malfunction produced a fuel shortage in mid to late Season 2.
Why would the crew of a starship that is 70 light years away from home be stupid enough to travel at Warp 9 at all times? Especially when one had to consider maintaining fuel in a part of the universe that is unfamiliar, along with dealing with major ship repairs?
because being 70 lightyears is not that big a deal...being 70 thousand on the other hand...
Because they would want to go as far as they can as quickly as they can...I personally agree with the person who said they should have supercharged the impulse engines to get as close to lightspeed as possible, then done a sling-shot around the sun when they got back to earth...
Which only lasted one episode...
In "Parallax", they weren't short of fuel as such, only worried that the fuel wasn't being converted to useful power as efficiently as it should. In "The Cloud", they wanted to get more antimatter aboard, but the need wasn't particularly acute.
What was the second-season shortage about? Was it the aforementioned "Deadlock", with the duplicated ship but unduplicated fuel? It would seem that this episode proves it was easy to refuel in the Delta Quadrant, considering that half the ship's fuel was lost yet, as said above, nothing was mentioned thereof in the next episode, "Innocence".
Timo Saloniemi
What was the second-season shortage about? Was it the aforementioned "Deadlock", with the duplicated ship but unduplicated fuel? It would seem that this episode proves it was easy to refuel in the Delta Quadrant, considering that half the ship's fuel was lost yet, as said above, nothing was mentioned thereof in the next episode, "Innocence".
Timo Saloniemi
hahahahaWell, Voyager's top cruising speed would be 9.975
In Threshold of course, the writers made a goof by making the ship seemingly start to fall apart after about 2 mins at such a veolicity ... and Chakotay was forced to go down to Warp 9.5 which of course removed the danger.
If the cruising speed is Warp 9.97, then maintaining Warp 8 or 9 for longer periods of time shouldn't be a problem.
Also keep in mind that the Galaxy class is different compared to the Intrepid.
It's slower and as a result has a lower maximum speed.
In Threshold of course, the writers made a goof by making the ship seemingly start to fall apart after about 2 mins at such a veolicity ... and Chakotay was forced to go down to Warp 9.5 which of course removed the danger.
If the cruising speed is Warp 9.97, then maintaining Warp 8 or 9 for longer periods of time shouldn't be a problem.
Also keep in mind that the Galaxy class is different compared to the Intrepid.
It's slower and as a result has a lower maximum speed.
