@@voicefromthedark-t2w Nah, I've been calling it Explodium for years before youtube existed, just like other shows come up with things like Unobtanium or Adamantium, Star Trek has its Explodium... :P
Deflector shields, exploding consoles, malfunctioning transporters, malfunctioning holodecks. I mean, the Enterprise-D's holoddecks malfunctioned so much that O'Brien made a joke about it to welcome Worf to DS9!
@arcturion didn't you know? The use of seatbelts is clearly forbidden under the rules laid out by the SCE (Starfleet Corps of Engineers) starship design manual.
One thing that isn't often discussed is that impulse power is supposed to be fast enough that you can reach near-lightspeed, subjecting the crew to relativistic effects. It's one of the reasons starships often have to resynchronize their clocks with the nearest starbase.
Yup there is even some people that live on them. I believe during DS9 they mentioned someone that was always moving around and the ship name. Then in later a later episode on a console of ships docked at DS9 the name was there with a Runabout NCC number, a little easteregg that was never meant to be seen however we have HD now.
@@rodneytrotter3725 Actually, no regular shuttlecraft do not. They only have the registry number of the ship or facility that they are assigned to, along with their inventory number for their ship's (or facility's) support craft inventory.
The turbolift doesn’t get enough attention. It can't be just an elevator. It must travel more like a subway and horizontally, vertically, down diagonally from the saucer section to the center section. That's a complicated system of shafts.
ALMOST PERFECT. You said Warp Core when you were talking about Warp Drive. And the Warp Core that powers the Warp Drive isn't powered by Antimatter, but by the annihilation of Matter and Antimatter.
The deflector dishes are designed to direct particles into the Bussard collectors. Only particles that they can't do that to (say, in the wrong position relative to the collectors) get directed around the ship. This is explained in the Technical Manuals. You guys, of all people, should know this.
I appreciate you are making videos on other Star Trek subjects aside from the newer episodes. Your videos are fascinating and extremely well done and entertaining as well as informative. Keep them up ! Maybe make a video on holodeck and how they work.
I think Scott Adams is right..once the holodeck is invented, mankind will no longer procreate the old-fashioned way. Holodecks are way cheaper than dating-marriage-kids.
The bigger thing to note with impulse drives, is that Starfleet tends to cap theirs at around 25PSL. This is due to relativistic effects that occur, that Warp Drive bypasses. So they'll never get faster, but they can offer instead quicker acceleration.
Well, according to Kirk, on two occasions, every starfleet ship had some Corbomite (ether as hull material or omega-level dangerous self-destruct device.)
If Phaser beams travelled at the speed of light, we would not see them travelling from emitter to target, there would instead be a beam of light seeming to connect the shooter and the shootee. Based on observed behaviour of the beam, I put it to you that Phasers are a coherent particle beam travelling very quickly, but not at light speed. That doesn't mean they don't pack a punch. Cannonballs travelled subsonic, but their mass and speed meant they could be devastating at the point of impact. However, they travelled slowly enough to be seen and often avoided by infantry and cavalry on the battlefield.
I'd still rate phasers as being closer to the speed of light as compared to Star Wars turbolasers. At least phasers look like proper beams, not glowing bullets. Well... most of the time, anyway. 😁
Transporters are a brilliant innovation when it comes to cost saving... the production budget hahaha. Didn't have to commission some VFX for a shuttle ride down to every planet every week.
Little known fact: Starfleet engineers modelled the self-destruct systems after the so-called “glory devices” employed by their Shofixti allies in during border skirmishes against the Ur-Quan. The Shofixti devices utilized a three-stage activation sequence for the sake of security, but many pilots would pre-emptively bypass the first two so that the device could be activated quickly. This feature was incorporated into Starfleet designs, which is why we see variations in self-destruct activation protocols: three codes in TOS, ST3, and FC, two simultaneous codes in TNG, and one code in many other cases.
Star Trek's warp drive will probably always be the retcon that first comes to my mind while watching videos like this one. Originally it was the Time Warp Drive - pushing a ship ahead in space and astern in time - to borrow a description from A. Bertram Chandler's _John Grimes_ novels.
Agree on everything but the deflector dish. Though not specifically stated in dialogue on the original show, but it was generally accepted at the time that the dish on the Enterprise was supposed to be a sensor or navigational instrument, not a deflector, hence it resembling a common antenna/satellite dish. It was only after the creating the refit Constitution, it was made primarily a deflector and retconned onto the original class. It is also the only device on your list that not every ship does have as witnessed by the Miranda and Oberth classes, to name the most obvious ones.
CERN is far from the only accelerator that creates antimatter, they're just the only place generating enough to do regular experiments with it....also it kinda makes sense why the nacelles are usually set off to the sides, the deflector dish clears a path for the primary hull, and the nacelles kinda stick outside of that path. Plus any time I've seen the bussard collectors used they were always travelling at sub-light speeds, and I imagine the deflector is probably also set to low power or off completely when they're using them.....
According to the TNG Tech manual, the deflector has an active component where it projects a deflection beam ahead of the ship to deflect smaller particles. It has the capability to let certain particles through. So particles that are not going to be a danger and needed that the bussard collectors want get let through and/or deflected into the collectors.
Which came first, Lawrence M. Krauss' Physics of Star Trek, or Star Trek canonizing warp working this way (compressing/expanding space at the front/back of the ship respectively)?
The bit about Voyagers shuttles is hokem. The ship had facilities across two decks for at least 15-20 shuttles and the capability to manufacture more. Need a new shuttle? Find a mineral rich astroid and bob's your uncle. The highly detailed deck plans done by the now defunct Strategic Designs (Quantum Reality Inc.) show that there's enough room for it, as their plans were based off of the show's Design 'bible' and production set blueprints.
@@StevenLockey And which parts are those? As I'm pretty sure the only non replicatable parts would be dilithium, and for others, I'm sure that an engineer as resourceful as Torres would find suitable work-arounds.
The TNG episode "Ream of Fear" shows there is continuous consciousness throughout the transport process. So the "you" that is dematerialized is, experientially, the same "you" that rematerializes. I'm often surprised at how few Star Trek fans seem to have missed this or forgot it. "Realm of Fear" guys.
I think the transporters, and their operation, are a fascinating topic for discussion. I appreciate knowing I'm not the only one who equates the use of them with death. Another area (topic) I'd like to explore, are the Weapons of Star Trek. Namely disruptors, disintergrators, phasers, torpedos, cannons, and lasers. Two other interesting topics might be replicators, and holodecks. As always, thank you all so very much for the videos.
If transporters were ever invented, I would never use one. They would revolutionize logistics, delivery, and travel (at least as far as your suitcase is concerned). But they should never be used on a living creature.
If Star Trek were real, I’d have a personal ship, likely the size of a runabout. The fact runabouts are said to have a max warp of warp 5, but we see them going warp 9+ tells me it’s more the latter than the former. Either way though, a runabout is awesome, the ship can even take on a jem hadar fighter
One thing that I would have included, but is often ignored because it is so basic, is artificial gravity. Like transporters, it is a convenient budgetary device since having the actors on wires all the time would have been wild impractical.
FYI, antimatter is the primary component used in a PET scan. It’s actually a natural dry product of most nuclear fission processes. It is used quite frequently in other medical scans and treatments. Technically, runabouts are starships, not shuttles. They have their own registry number, and are designed to be self sustaining.
6:08 not as manoeuvrable as torpedoes? How do you change the direction of a beam of light? Also, Photon torpedoes can be fired at warp speeds, while phasers can't.
When the design decision was made, people assumed that ship engines would produce quite a lot of radiation. That is why in many sci-fi movies (both old and new) that aim for realism the engines are far away from the living quarters. The incluion of a saucer section clearly seperated from the engine was kind of a compromise between realism and aesthetics.
Saucer separation is also what every Starfleet ship has. Even the ones that don't actually show it happening onscreen. Except for the Defiant. That has a warhead.
Defiant, Saber, Akira, Steamrunner, Oberth, Centaur, Intrepid, Nebula, Nova, Miranda, Prometheus -classes have no saucer separation. I think saying "every" ship is not fitting. Too many exceptions.
My personal headcanon about the Voyager shuttle situation is that they had an engineering team just periodically construct one or two when they happened upon a surplus of resources. Certainly they're easier to make than, say...photon torpedoes 🤔
They did build the Delta Flyer so its feasible. Still would have been better I think if they actually addressed that in the show. An episode where they pause at an asteroid belt or something to mine resources so the engineering crew can build a couple new shuttles. They established the existence of a hydroponics bay (former cargo hold if I recall) to provide some food stuffs for the kitchen and also that Neelix regularly scrounges for food stuffs any time they visit a planet. Scarcity of some resources and difficulty in replenishing some items like torpedos and shuttles was a missed opportunity. They started worrying about that and then the idea of some things being hard to replenish just kind of got forgotten in the show.
Its not the warp core that creates the warp field bubble, its the nacelles that do that. The warp core provides the high energy plasma the nacelles need to function. The nacelles are effectively the warp engines, and the warp core the powerplant. When locating a crew member the ship doesn't really use its internal sensors, it just pings the location the crew member's comm badge. That is why if someone wants to do something and not be easily located, the first thing they do is take off their comm badge. We have seen that the internal sensors at least through TOS, TNG and DS9 are unable to identify individual life signs on a ship or station.
Subspace communications, video communications, internal communications, defensive shields, navigational shields, computer systems, damage control force fields (seriously, where are the emitters for those things sometimes?), fire suppression systems, Jeffries Tubes (an interesting maintenance innovation that could possibly be valuable in ships today, though they might be a tough sell), crew accommodations, turbolifts, cargo bays (I actually think this could be a whole video on its own), inertial dampers, life support, lighting and power, and artificial gravity. Also, things that you might consider "rooms" or "spaces" in the ship could also be considered systems if they are sufficiently complex. For example, the bridge and medical systems, and arguably engineering are their own systems. One that gets overlooked a lot because it's not fit for TV: hygiene and sewage systems. I could go on. HMU for consultations.
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IIRC there is a Barkley episode that shows that a person is conscious during a transport. IMHO one way to tell if teleportation kills you is if it could create a copy of you and leave the original which Star Trek transporters can't. You might point to Thomas Riker but that was explained away. Another way to look at it is the because it works approach. By the time of Next Generation humans were using transporters for centuries. By that time they probably figured it out otherwise much more people would refuse to use them.
The inventor of the Transporter said on Enterprise, “It’s not a damn copy!” Anti-matter may not be needed… but instead Negative Energy…. Which we can barely make at this moment and certainly not enough of it to fold space or pop open a wormhold.
A crazy fact: every Starfleet ship carried photon torpedoes, making them a threat no matter the size of the ship. This was based on the real life torpedoes that would allow glorified speed boats to be a threat to even the largest battleships.
You got some stuff wrong. In Federation ships, the Warp Core is the matter-antimatter reactor that generates the power for the warp engines. The energy produced by the reactor is fed into the dilithium crystals and from there into the warp coils in the nacelles to generate the warp field. Some races use other energy sources --e.g. Romulans use a quantum singularity.
I'd love a video that covers the different types of Star Trek Weapons. Like Phasers and torpedoes. Plasma and tetryon... need to know what the differences are.
Now if only Starfleet would rediscover circuit breakers and surge suppressors so their consoles stop exploding when a torpedo hits the shields. Transporters are one of the most interesting bits of tech simply because their origin outside lore is a studio saving money. I just find humor that one of the most famous devices from all of scifi exists due to the budget.
Fun fact the Enterprise D at a top impulse speed of 0.25c or 25% light speed under normal operation. For short burst it can push upwards of 0.5c. While this seems fast Voyager could push up to 0.9c for something like 20mins with all power diverted to the Subspace bubble and Impulse. This is also why ships in the Star Trek universe would beat most other sci-fi ships in sublight speed encounters. They don't have to deal or account for time dilation while ships from say Stargate, Star Wars, and Babylon 5 do.
It would be nice to have a series of the different components of a ship (i.e. warp engine, transporters, etc) and do a deep dive on their "workings" ala the ST TNG Technical Manual...
Photon torpedoes do have limited warp speed capabilities, they are not totally limited to sublight speeds. Although it is rare for the torpedoes to be fired at those speeds, there is on screen evidence of torpedoes launched at warp speeds.
Replicators. In Star Trek (no bloody TNG, DS9, etc.) the matter - anti-matter reactions took place within the nacelles. Also, the navigational deflectors were those three lights at the front of the saucer. The "dish" was the main sensor.
So here's a question re: the ship's phasers: What happens when a ship fires phasers and MISSES the target? Would not that deadly beam of energy continuing travelling endlessly through space?...well at least until it hits something or someone? I thought about that after watching a TNG episode, "Genesis" where Worf had to recover a malfunctioning torpedo. All those shots in the war with the Dominion just speeding through space.......
I've always loved the inclusion of bussard collectors (named after the scientist) as it gives a good real world physics element to our trek. However I always thought they were rather pointless on shuttle craft, and the designers always missed a trick with ships having more than two nacelles because why would you ever need 3 or 4 bussards when 2 will always do and you could have replaced them with navigational deflectors to avoid the awkward dish placements
Sorry to be pedantic, but the warp core does not actually create the warp bubble. That is entirely down to the warp coils in the naceles. The warp core simply creates the imense amounts of power the warp coils require to function through magnetically-contained mater/antimater explosions, with the power than focused by the Dilithium crystal and routed through the eps grid as plasma.
Inertial dampeners. Although I don't think you would actually need them for Warp travel. You're not moving, and you're not accelerating. Unless the warp field is also partially warping space/time through and inside the ship, and you need the inertial dampeners to protect the ship from that unintended and undesired bleed off. But if that warp field is creating a perfectly static bubble of normal space, you wouldn't need Inertial Dampeners at all. Which is good news for the possibility for real function warp drives in the future, is we don't really have to also solve this other problem. Now you'd want them for sure for the impulse, cause impulse drives in Star Trek can still make some incredible sublight speeds and accelerate and decelerate fast enough to get around a solar system within a few hours, and produce some serious G forces that would crush the ship and everyone on it.
The deflector dish's fields can be manipulated in a way that keeps particles away from the ship, but creates small window's through the fields to allow the bussard collectors to function.
4:55 I never liked that scene from TNG. I was thinking the whole episode why didn't they just use the thrusters to escape the trap? Oh right, for the suspense of the story lol
Has the brakes system ever been explained? Either in cannon or expanded? By this I mean no matter the speed traveling the ship just STOPS on a dime. Do they use a split second of reverse thrust to equalize speed? Do the inertial dampeners do more than keep the crew from becoming scrambled eggs? I have never seen any answers on how to stop the ship.
I always wondered if the inertial dampers would actually be necessary. They say it's to prevent you from slamming into the walls when the ship goes to warp. But, like you stated, from the ships reference frame it isn't actually moving. So would you even feel an inertial force inside a warp bubble?
According to some beta?-sources, the TMP Enterprise refit had internal bussard collectors, so that includes the Miranda class (FWG-1 units), but also the Oberth and Excelsiors likely. So some illustators adding red tint to D-shaped opening up front isn't implausible, but it never showed up on-screen.
Explodium, you forgot the Explodium, it's in every console, bulkhead, floor panel, conduit and light fitting, goes off at the slightest bump... :P
Someone is a lore reloaded fan😂; I love that word
@@voicefromthedark-t2w Nah, I've been calling it Explodium for years before youtube existed, just like other shows come up with things like Unobtanium or Adamantium, Star Trek has its Explodium... :P
@ my bad, it is a great descriptor
I believe the explodium comes in the form of rocks, haphazardly placed in every console.
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Deflector shields, exploding consoles, malfunctioning transporters, malfunctioning holodecks.
I mean, the Enterprise-D's holoddecks malfunctioned so much that O'Brien made a joke about it to welcome Worf to DS9!
Don't forget the lack of seat belts and the prevalence of falling rocks.
@arcturion didn't you know? The use of seatbelts is clearly forbidden under the rules laid out by the SCE (Starfleet Corps of Engineers) starship design manual.
Tractor Beams? Tell that to the Enterprise-B before Tuesday.
I came for THIS comment.
Or, the "grappler " 😅
No photon torpedoes either! Shocked that this was not joked about in the video.
Dang made the same post then saw you beat me to it
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As a computer tech I am INSULTED that you didn't include the computer core!?!?! (why I can hear Scotty talking to the mouse. "computer" )
One thing that isn't often discussed is that impulse power is supposed to be fast enough that you can reach near-lightspeed, subjecting the crew to relativistic effects. It's one of the reasons starships often have to resynchronize their clocks with the nearest starbase.
Always loved the way Nimoy said "SenSORRS."
Also, love your shirt!
What about inertial dampeners? Or perhaps all those rocks in the ceiling of the bridge lol
Oh, I forgot about those. LMFAO!
You forgot about all the explosives planted in the control panels.
Runabouts are fully fledged starships, they have their own NCC registry number.
Yup there is even some people that live on them. I believe during DS9 they mentioned someone that was always moving around and the ship name. Then in later a later episode on a console of ships docked at DS9 the name was there with a Runabout NCC number, a little easteregg that was never meant to be seen however we have HD now.
A Runabout is basically an interstellar RV. 😂
All shuttlecraft have their own NCC numbers as well
@@rodneytrotter3725 Actually, no regular shuttlecraft do not. They only have the registry number of the ship or facility that they are assigned to, along with their inventory number for their ship's (or facility's) support craft inventory.
@@GarfieldofBorg Yep, standard shuttles have the host ship's registry plus an identifier.
A deep dive on subspace communications and personal communicators would be interesting.
One press on the combadge, and it just knows what you want to do.
The turbolift doesn’t get enough attention. It can't be just an elevator. It must travel more like a subway and horizontally, vertically, down diagonally from the saucer section to the center section. That's a complicated system of shafts.
Technology originally invented by a Mr. W. Wonka.
@@allankolenovsky7028 Or Rube Goldberg,
@@allankolenovsky7028I came here to say this!
That's correct. Turbolifts are omnidirectional maglevs, that move up down, around, forward backwards, and in and out.
ALMOST PERFECT. You said Warp Core when you were talking about Warp Drive. And the Warp Core that powers the Warp Drive isn't powered by Antimatter, but by the annihilation of Matter and Antimatter.
I love the conduits on the original series. They where all marked GNDN. The set designers came up with that. It stands for Goes Nowhere Does Nothing.
In TNG, the medical bays had a readout saying Medical insurance: Active
Was waiting for the red blinking tubes that have popped up everywhere
Tucker/Billups tubes.
"This device seems to have no function sir."
@bluediamonddirector "That's impossible, it must have some kind of function"
@@seantwigg "And these lights are blinking out of sequence sir."
Then make them blink .... .... In sequence.
Exploding consoles, ceiling rocks, and, of course, the holodeck [bleep] filter.
01:00 Grapplers are cool.
The deflector dishes are designed to direct particles into the Bussard collectors. Only particles that they can't do that to (say, in the wrong position relative to the collectors) get directed around the ship. This is explained in the Technical Manuals. You guys, of all people, should know this.
I was out sick that day and missed that.
Totally love the t shirt 😍😍😍
Sometime they are scheduled to get the items on Tuesday but don't have them at the soft launch
I appreciate you are making videos on other Star Trek subjects aside from the newer episodes. Your videos are fascinating and extremely well done and entertaining as well as informative. Keep them up ! Maybe make a video on holodeck and how they work.
I think Scott Adams is right..once the holodeck is invented, mankind will no longer procreate the old-fashioned way. Holodecks are way cheaper than dating-marriage-kids.
LOVE the t-shirt man!!!😁
I love watching you and listening to you explaining Trek or Who. You are a very pleasant to see and/or listen to. Thank you.
Mirror Universe Kirk found the Tantalus Field very handy.
Every Starship captain should have one.
A few people wish they had one now...
Gotta love your teeshirt. Classic!
You forgot the ceiling rocks. Every ship has ceiling rocks
The bigger thing to note with impulse drives, is that Starfleet tends to cap theirs at around 25PSL. This is due to relativistic effects that occur, that Warp Drive bypasses. So they'll never get faster, but they can offer instead quicker acceleration.
@10:41 - probably *THE* best image you could have used for that bit of info.
Well, according to Kirk, on two occasions, every starfleet ship had some Corbomite (ether as hull material or omega-level dangerous self-destruct device.)
This is one of my favorite topics!
If Phaser beams travelled at the speed of light, we would not see them travelling from emitter to target, there would instead be a beam of light seeming to connect the shooter and the shootee. Based on observed behaviour of the beam, I put it to you that Phasers are a coherent particle beam travelling very quickly, but not at light speed.
That doesn't mean they don't pack a punch. Cannonballs travelled subsonic, but their mass and speed meant they could be devastating at the point of impact. However, they travelled slowly enough to be seen and often avoided by infantry and cavalry on the battlefield.
I'd still rate phasers as being closer to the speed of light as compared to Star Wars turbolasers. At least phasers look like proper beams, not glowing bullets. Well... most of the time, anyway. 😁
Agreed..they are particle weapons
That's correct. Federation phaser emitters canonically convert stored plasma into nadion particle beams.
Very interesting! How about the gadgets and gizmos next? Communicators, tricorders, etc.
Thanks, I wil have to share (show) this to others.
Transporters are a brilliant innovation when it comes to cost saving... the production budget hahaha. Didn't have to commission some VFX for a shuttle ride down to every planet every week.
More like this please.
Oh come on Sean. If Ellie had done this video, there would have been a comment about the particles in nebulae being turned into coffee!
8:27 I think you mean to say "the OTHER Riker maneuver"
Loving the shirt!
Little known fact: Starfleet engineers modelled the self-destruct systems after the so-called “glory devices” employed by their Shofixti allies in during border skirmishes against the Ur-Quan.
The Shofixti devices utilized a three-stage activation sequence for the sake of security, but many pilots would pre-emptively bypass the first two so that the device could be activated quickly.
This feature was incorporated into Starfleet designs, which is why we see variations in self-destruct activation protocols: three codes in TOS, ST3, and FC, two simultaneous codes in TNG, and one code in many other cases.
Star Trek's warp drive will probably always be the retcon that first comes to my mind while watching videos like this one.
Originally it was the Time Warp Drive - pushing a ship ahead in space and astern in time - to borrow a description from A. Bertram Chandler's _John Grimes_ novels.
Agree on everything but the deflector dish. Though not specifically stated in dialogue on the original show, but it was generally accepted at the time that the dish on the Enterprise was supposed to be a sensor or navigational instrument, not a deflector, hence it resembling a common antenna/satellite dish. It was only after the creating the refit Constitution, it was made primarily a deflector and retconned onto the original class. It is also the only device on your list that not every ship does have as witnessed by the Miranda and Oberth classes, to name the most obvious ones.
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CERN is far from the only accelerator that creates antimatter, they're just the only place generating enough to do regular experiments with it....also it kinda makes sense why the nacelles are usually set off to the sides, the deflector dish clears a path for the primary hull, and the nacelles kinda stick outside of that path. Plus any time I've seen the bussard collectors used they were always travelling at sub-light speeds, and I imagine the deflector is probably also set to low power or off completely when they're using them.....
According to the TNG Tech manual, the deflector has an active component where it projects a deflection beam ahead of the ship to deflect smaller particles. It has the capability to let certain particles through. So particles that are not going to be a danger and needed that the bussard collectors want get let through and/or deflected into the collectors.
Which came first, Lawrence M. Krauss' Physics of Star Trek, or Star Trek canonizing warp working this way (compressing/expanding space at the front/back of the ship respectively)?
The bit about Voyagers shuttles is hokem. The ship had facilities across two decks for at least 15-20 shuttles and the capability to manufacture more. Need a new shuttle? Find a mineral rich astroid and bob's your uncle. The highly detailed deck plans done by the now defunct Strategic Designs (Quantum Reality Inc.) show that there's enough room for it, as their plans were based off of the show's Design 'bible' and production set blueprints.
I agree with you mate, they literally have replicators to make all the parts
_Prodigy_ knew what they were doing when they showed the ship's vehicle replication bay.
Why are you trying to rename my uncle!?
There are canonically several parts which can't be replicated however.
@@StevenLockey And which parts are those? As I'm pretty sure the only non replicatable parts would be dilithium, and for others, I'm sure that an engineer as resourceful as Torres would find suitable work-arounds.
Took me a second to realize what was on your shirt. LOL
The TNG episode "Ream of Fear" shows there is continuous consciousness throughout the transport process. So the "you" that is dematerialized is, experientially, the same "you" that rematerializes. I'm often surprised at how few Star Trek fans seem to have missed this or forgot it. "Realm of Fear" guys.
Love the t-shirt
I think the transporters, and their operation, are a fascinating topic for discussion. I appreciate knowing I'm not the only one who equates the use of them with death. Another area (topic) I'd like to explore, are the Weapons of Star Trek. Namely disruptors, disintergrators, phasers, torpedos, cannons, and lasers. Two other interesting topics might be replicators, and holodecks.
As always, thank you all so very much for the videos.
If transporters were ever invented, I would never use one. They would revolutionize logistics, delivery, and travel (at least as far as your suitcase is concerned). But they should never be used on a living creature.
If Star Trek were real, I’d have a personal ship, likely the size of a runabout. The fact runabouts are said to have a max warp of warp 5, but we see them going warp 9+ tells me it’s more the latter than the former. Either way though, a runabout is awesome, the ship can even take on a jem hadar fighter
You mentioned escape pods. Have we ever fully looked into how different they are, capacity exc.
One thing that I would have included, but is often ignored because it is so basic, is artificial gravity. Like transporters, it is a convenient budgetary device since having the actors on wires all the time would have been wild impractical.
It took me 6 and a half minutes before I saw where the Tin Man's left hand was! 🤣
ON the down low.
I love the fact we figured out that Warp Bubbles can be possible before we figured out an energy source that can make them.
FYI, antimatter is the primary component used in a PET scan. It’s actually a natural dry product of most nuclear fission processes. It is used quite frequently in other medical scans and treatments.
Technically, runabouts are starships, not shuttles. They have their own registry number, and are designed to be self sustaining.
6:08 not as manoeuvrable as torpedoes? How do you change the direction of a beam of light? Also, Photon torpedoes can be fired at warp speeds, while phasers can't.
Actually the Oberth Class vessels are just Phasers banks, no Photon torpedoes.
And phases are so much more than just weapons. Starfleet uses them as tools.
I'm pretty sure there's maybe one torpedo tube meant to launch scientific probes converted from photon torps.
Like the t-shirt.
Such an interesting lore video!
Yeah transporters. I'm with McCoy on this one!
According to halfscreen defiant layout it could hold like 3 of those baby shuttles ; unless I read it wrong which it could be
Why a saucer section? I have always wondered about that?
When the design decision was made, people assumed that ship engines would produce quite a lot of radiation. That is why in many sci-fi movies (both old and new) that aim for realism the engines are far away from the living quarters. The incluion of a saucer section clearly seperated from the engine was kind of a compromise between realism and aesthetics.
Saucer separation is also what every Starfleet ship has. Even the ones that don't actually show it happening onscreen. Except for the Defiant. That has a warhead.
Defiant, Saber, Akira, Steamrunner, Oberth, Centaur, Intrepid, Nebula, Nova, Miranda, Prometheus -classes have no saucer separation. I think saying "every" ship is not fitting. Too many exceptions.
My personal headcanon about the Voyager shuttle situation is that they had an engineering team just periodically construct one or two when they happened upon a surplus of resources. Certainly they're easier to make than, say...photon torpedoes 🤔
They did build the Delta Flyer so its feasible. Still would have been better I think if they actually addressed that in the show. An episode where they pause at an asteroid belt or something to mine resources so the engineering crew can build a couple new shuttles. They established the existence of a hydroponics bay (former cargo hold if I recall) to provide some food stuffs for the kitchen and also that Neelix regularly scrounges for food stuffs any time they visit a planet.
Scarcity of some resources and difficulty in replenishing some items like torpedos and shuttles was a missed opportunity. They started worrying about that and then the idea of some things being hard to replenish just kind of got forgotten in the show.
Ceritos strong! Come on Sean time for the last ups and downs. You can do it
Good list, but you're forgetting the one thing onboard that can control everything else on the list: The ship's computer.
Great video but I was extremely distracted by Shawn's t-shirt 😅
Its not the warp core that creates the warp field bubble, its the nacelles that do that. The warp core provides the high energy plasma the nacelles need to function. The nacelles are effectively the warp engines, and the warp core the powerplant.
When locating a crew member the ship doesn't really use its internal sensors, it just pings the location the crew member's comm badge. That is why if someone wants to do something and not be easily located, the first thing they do is take off their comm badge. We have seen that the internal sensors at least through TOS, TNG and DS9 are unable to identify individual life signs on a ship or station.
But i love the grappler
Subspace communications, video communications, internal communications, defensive shields, navigational shields, computer systems, damage control force fields (seriously, where are the emitters for those things sometimes?), fire suppression systems, Jeffries Tubes (an interesting maintenance innovation that could possibly be valuable in ships today, though they might be a tough sell), crew accommodations, turbolifts, cargo bays (I actually think this could be a whole video on its own), inertial dampers, life support, lighting and power, and artificial gravity. Also, things that you might consider "rooms" or "spaces" in the ship could also be considered systems if they are sufficiently complex. For example, the bridge and medical systems, and arguably engineering are their own systems. One that gets overlooked a lot because it's not fit for TV: hygiene and sewage systems. I could go on. HMU for consultations.
IIRC there is a Barkley episode that shows that a person is conscious during a transport. IMHO one way to tell if teleportation kills you is if it could create a copy of you and leave the original which Star Trek transporters can't. You might point to Thomas Riker but that was explained away. Another way to look at it is the because it works approach. By the time of Next Generation humans were using transporters for centuries. By that time they probably figured it out otherwise much more people would refuse to use them.
Does your soul survive transport?🤔
Given that Barclay has conscious the whole time he was transported i would think it does. @@divermike8943
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Point of order, the El-Baz was considered a shuttlepod, not a shuttlecraft, the distinction being they didn't have room for much more than two crew.
The inventor of the Transporter said on Enterprise, “It’s not a damn copy!”
Anti-matter may not be needed… but instead Negative Energy…. Which we can barely make at this moment and certainly not enough of it to fold space or pop open a wormhold.
Seán! You all missed an opportunity. You could have shown a certain animated admiral talking about "sen-soars"...
I most liked the spore drive
A crazy fact: every Starfleet ship carried photon torpedoes, making them a threat no matter the size of the ship. This was based on the real life torpedoes that would allow glorified speed boats to be a threat to even the largest battleships.
You got some stuff wrong. In Federation ships, the Warp Core is the matter-antimatter reactor that generates the power for the warp engines. The energy produced by the reactor is fed into the dilithium crystals and from there into the warp coils in the nacelles to generate the warp field. Some races use other energy sources --e.g. Romulans use a quantum singularity.
That's about right.
Subspace radio, though?
Oberth class vessels were cool looking 😎....That was a class alll to itself indeed.....secondary hall unlike the other ships.....or, "The Pod" 😂
No mention of toilets! I've got over 430 on my ship!
I'd love a video that covers the different types of Star Trek Weapons. Like Phasers and torpedoes. Plasma and tetryon... need to know what the differences are.
Now if only Starfleet would rediscover circuit breakers and surge suppressors so their consoles stop exploding when a torpedo hits the shields.
Transporters are one of the most interesting bits of tech simply because their origin outside lore is a studio saving money. I just find humor that one of the most famous devices from all of scifi exists due to the budget.
Fun fact the Enterprise D at a top impulse speed of 0.25c or 25% light speed under normal operation. For short burst it can push upwards of 0.5c. While this seems fast Voyager could push up to 0.9c for something like 20mins with all power diverted to the Subspace bubble and Impulse.
This is also why ships in the Star Trek universe would beat most other sci-fi ships in sublight speed encounters. They don't have to deal or account for time dilation while ships from say Stargate, Star Wars, and Babylon 5 do.
It would be nice to have a series of the different components of a ship (i.e. warp engine, transporters, etc) and do a deep dive on their "workings" ala the ST TNG Technical Manual...
Photon torpedoes do have limited warp speed capabilities, they are not totally limited to sublight speeds. Although it is rare for the torpedoes to be fired at those speeds, there is on screen evidence of torpedoes launched at warp speeds.
Replicators. In Star Trek (no bloody TNG, DS9, etc.) the matter - anti-matter reactions took place within the nacelles. Also, the navigational deflectors were those three lights at the front of the saucer. The "dish" was the main sensor.
How did you NOT include Data singing about his love of scanning for life forms?
So here's a question re: the ship's phasers: What happens when a ship fires phasers and MISSES the target? Would not that deadly beam of energy continuing travelling endlessly through space?...well at least until it hits something or someone? I thought about that after watching a TNG episode, "Genesis" where Worf had to recover a malfunctioning torpedo. All those shots in the war with the Dominion just speeding through space.......
I thought number 1 would be Universal Translators cuz they're built into everything.
I've always loved the inclusion of bussard collectors (named after the scientist) as it gives a good real world physics element to our trek. However I always thought they were rather pointless on shuttle craft, and the designers always missed a trick with ships having more than two nacelles because why would you ever need 3 or 4 bussards when 2 will always do and you could have replaced them with navigational deflectors to avoid the awkward dish placements
Sorry to be pedantic, but the warp core does not actually create the warp bubble. That is entirely down to the warp coils in the naceles. The warp core simply creates the imense amounts of power the warp coils require to function through magnetically-contained mater/antimater explosions, with the power than focused by the Dilithium crystal and routed through the eps grid as plasma.
Inertial Dampeners are the unsung hero.
Inertial dampeners. Although I don't think you would actually need them for Warp travel. You're not moving, and you're not accelerating. Unless the warp field is also partially warping space/time through and inside the ship, and you need the inertial dampeners to protect the ship from that unintended and undesired bleed off. But if that warp field is creating a perfectly static bubble of normal space, you wouldn't need Inertial Dampeners at all. Which is good news for the possibility for real function warp drives in the future, is we don't really have to also solve this other problem.
Now you'd want them for sure for the impulse, cause impulse drives in Star Trek can still make some incredible sublight speeds and accelerate and decelerate fast enough to get around a solar system within a few hours, and produce some serious G forces that would crush the ship and everyone on it.
I always wondered it the Tractor Beams were Cat or John Deer
The deflector dish's fields can be manipulated in a way that keeps particles away from the ship, but creates small window's through the fields to allow the bussard collectors to function.
4:55 I never liked that scene from TNG. I was thinking the whole episode why didn't they just use the thrusters to escape the trap? Oh right, for the suspense of the story lol
Has the brakes system ever been explained? Either in cannon or expanded? By this I mean no matter the speed traveling the ship just STOPS on a dime. Do they use a split second of reverse thrust to equalize speed? Do the inertial dampeners do more than keep the crew from becoming scrambled eggs? I have never seen any answers on how to stop the ship.
I always wondered if the inertial dampers would actually be necessary. They say it's to prevent you from slamming into the walls when the ship goes to warp. But, like you stated, from the ships reference frame it isn't actually moving. So would you even feel an inertial force inside a warp bubble?
Torpedos can be fired at warp speeds. They are literally faster than light.
According to some beta?-sources, the TMP Enterprise refit had internal bussard collectors, so that includes the Miranda class (FWG-1 units), but also the Oberth and Excelsiors likely. So some illustators adding red tint to D-shaped opening up front isn't implausible, but it never showed up on-screen.
Whatever mic you are using here sounds very muffled, otherwise great vid!
Yeah, it was a bit wasn't it.
Sorry about that. It fixes up when he’s on camera.
@TrekCulture let's just say you had a cold......" It's very cold in spaaace" 😅