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I've been a hardcore Trek nerd for 50 years and I'm so tired of other Trek nerds telling me that certain bits of the imaginary technology and chronology are sacrosanct and must not be contradicted or the franchise will be instantly wiped from cultural memory.
Yeah. My fanfic roleplay ship from 1988 had three engine pods. You almost never see that in Trek. We knew that. We lampshaded it, saying the arrangement was powerful, but a massive pain, and our engineers needed LONG vacations.
But it's not somehow "illegal" on Trek. If a writer or a special effects artist wants one, three, four, five, or seventeen warp engine pods badly enough, they get them. You can do that, because it's FICTION.
And don't quote Trek chapter and verse at me, because I'll come right back at you. Alternate Future Enterprise-D had three; Alternate Past USS Kelvin had one; and the sections of USS Prometheus in the core 90s TV timeline had two and two and one apiece.
This screenshot is from the Star Trek: TNG Technical Manual by Rick Sternbach and Michael Okuda. It says "two was the optimum number," not "two was the only workable configuration." And of course, this was merely a writer's guide that could be contradicted if desirable.
And the next time I post my three-nacelled model of the USS Pathfinder to the forums, I'm going to have to go through all of this again. 😡
Star Trek: The Next Generation-era displays were attached with Phillips head screws?
Transwarp coil and transwarp hub
Goodies at Indigo :)
Really want the Treknology for writing references
Why Don't We Have Artificial Gravity In Space?
“If antimatter has negative gravitational mass, then by setting up a ceiling of antimatter and a floor of normal matter, we could create an artificial gravity field that always pulled you down. By building a gravitationally conducting shell as the hull of our spacecraft, everyone inside would be protected from the forces of ultra-rapid acceleration which would otherwise prove lethal. And most spectacularly, humans in space would no longer suffer the negative physiological effects, from balance disorders to the atrophy of your heart muscle, that currently plague today's astronauts. But until we discover a particle (or set of particles) with negative gravitational mass, artificial gravity will only be brought about through acceleration, no matter how clever we are.”
Ever wonder, in those science fiction shows, how space travelers always stay “down” on their starship? Irrespective of acceleration, and despite the fact that the astronauts we have in orbit around Earth are weightless, they’re always depicted as having a floor and a ceiling that are well-defined, and always find themselves on the floor. This is physically impossible given the laws of physics as we know them today, but one small discovery could suddenly render artificial gravity possible. We’ve measured the inertial mass of every particle and antiparticle we know of, and everything has positive mass/energy to it. But gravitational mass has only been measured for the particles, never for the antiparticles. There’s currently an experiment underway, the ALPHA experiment at CERN, whose goal is to measure which way antiparticles fall in a gravitational field. If they fall “down,” then they’re not the solution to artificial gravity. But if they fall “up,” this fictional technology could suddenly become real.
We presently don’t have artificial gravity in space because there’s no such thing as a negative gravitational mass. But if we get an experimental surprise, all of that could change overnight!
Win a Copy of the New Book Treknology: The Science of Star Trek from Tricorders to Warp Drive!
Time for more free stuff: we're giving away 2 copies of Treknology, a new book on the science of Star Trek!
In addition to being the senior editor here at Twin Cities Geek, I’m also a book editor. Sometimes those books are geeky, too, which is the case with Treknology: The Science of Star Trek from Tricorders to Warp Drive—a book about the real-life science behind Star Trek technology. After realizing there was nothing like it already out there, I acquired Treknology for the Quarto Group in Minneapolis…
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Oh we're definitely using real 90s early flatscreen displays here. Starfleet has never needed to vent their screens.