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how much fuel does the enterprise use?

This thread is now about what drug MonKENy is tripping on.

Based on his relative cohesiveness with sentences I will say LSD. He isn't peaking but rather took it 6-8 hours ago and is now in the residual stage
 
MonKENy said:
Isn't it antimatter? Why would you travel at warp 2 if you could travel at warp 9,?
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You must have missed the Next Generation episode explaining why.

Running at Warp creates a ripple in space similar to a wake a boat makes.

Causes havoc in some star systems so you if you don't need Warp 9 you go a bit slower (lower wake).
 
dmcowen674 said:
You must have missed the Next Generation episode explaining why.

Running at Warp creates a ripple in space similar to a wake a boat makes.

Causes havoc in some star systems so you if you don't need Warp 9 you go a bit slower (lower wake).
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OK yeah either I've missed it or it hasn't come up yet. I'm only half way through season 2.

I'm only high on life.


Oh and meth
 
Also why does every damn species speak English? At least in Dr who they use the tardis excuse and in hitchhikers guide they use that alien that gets put in your ear, the Babel
 
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MonKENy said:
Also why does every damn species speak English? At least in Dr who they use the tardis excuse and in hitchhikers guide they use that alien that gets put in your ear, the Babel
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Because interchanging constantly between subtitles and English would be hard work for the viewer.

Also, having the ship's universal translator read out everything the alien is saying would lose the emotion of what they're saying.
 
Well than I'm making up my own reason. I say it's because the communicators translate and broadcast everything in English.
 
ah ok, not as familiar with meth. But the general amount of effort being put in seems to align with my notions of its effects, someone on LSD might think about more abstract things and not necessarily put the effort in to investigating it
 
I'm almost done with season 3 and they still haven't explained why. I had to look it up since that was bothering me too. In later series they must have solved this problem.
 
the matter-antimatter explosions create an unnatural amount of higgs boson particles. Since these particles are inherently unstable, disruption of the universal Higgs field would result in the collapse of the universe
 
Well....the, um, TNG Technical Manual explains why, if I remember properly. The engines' energy usage experiences diminishing returns as speed increases.
And yes, sometime in one of the later seasons, they threw in an episode where someone showed that warp drive was damaging subspace, so Starfleet imposed a standard speed limit of warp 5, except with specific authorization - which they then authorized rather freely.


MonKENy said:
Also why does every damn species speak English? At least in Dr who they use the tardis excuse and in hitchhikers guide they use that alien that gets put in your ear, the Babel
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Then it would be like the Stargate movie, where half of it seemed to consist of, "I don't understand what you're saying!"
We've got enough trouble just with languages between members of our own species. Trying to figure out an alien language may end up being extremely difficult, though having them all be humanoid, on roughly the same technological level, makes it all easier. The hand-wave Universal Translator thingy makes it a lot easier, too. 🙂 Probably more interesting than a series on xenolinguistic analysis.
 
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A lot. A fucking lot. More energy than we produce on Earth daily.

Also matter anti matter reactions give off 90% of their energy in neutrinos which can't be captured or converted to energy as of now, if ever, so MAM reactor capacities in Sci Fi are grossly exaggerated and overrated.
 
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dmcowen674 said:
You must have missed the Next Generation episode explaining why.

Running at Warp creates a ripple in space similar to a wake a boat makes.

Causes havoc in some star systems so you if you don't need Warp 9 you go a bit slower (lower wake).
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that happened in season 6 or 7, so it isn't really an explanation. and that show was lame. 24th century version of global warming.

now as for the OP's question? the answer is that it's a TV show. just shut up and enjoy how awesome TNG is, and how much better it was than every other Star Trek franchise.
 
Depends on the Enterprise. The first such ships were sailing ships, so they used no fuel. :sneaky: The most recent ship used Uranium - I'm not sure how much.
 
Just like the equation e=mc^2, they sort of "extended" it into faster-than-light speeds.

As you approach the speed of light, the amount of energy required to move a given mass becomes exponentially higher.

The same thing sort of applied (in theory - Trek theory that is) to faster-than-light travel. Except it was a logarithmic curve, meaning the more energy you put in, the less net gain you get. Which was why (up until Voyager), it was thought to be theoretically impossible to ever break Warp 10 - because you would need an infinite amount of energy to do so.

Then of course they managed to do that, and then of course they introduced the Borg Transwarp system as well (in TNG). Then to make all things go to hell they introduced temporal travel as well. And, well, all hell broke loose.
 
SunnyD said:
Just like the equation e=mc^2, they sort of "extended" it into faster-than-light speeds.

As you approach the speed of light, the amount of energy required to move a given mass becomes exponentially higher.

The same thing sort of applied (in theory - Trek theory that is) to faster-than-light travel. Except it was a logarithmic curve, meaning the more energy you put in, the less net gain you get. Which was why (up until Voyager), it was thought to be theoretically impossible to ever break Warp 10 - because you would need an infinite amount of energy to do so.

Then of course they managed to do that, and then of course they introduced the Borg Transwarp system as well (in TNG). Then to make all things go to hell they introduced temporal travel as well. And, well, all hell broke loose.
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I thought the idea behind Transwarp was that they were creating a tunnel through space/time to the location and thus the cube itself didn't need to go that fast (e.g. a customized wormhole). With the regular warp system, they create a "warp field" in front of the ship, which the ship flies within, that allows it to go faster than light.

In DS9 the structure sat outside of a wormhole created by another advanced race, so the ideas of wormholes and such has been in the startrek lore for quite a while.
 
If you take into account all the series the general idea was that it creates a lot of wear and tear on the engines to go Warp 9. So instead of having to shut down frequently for maintenance they go at lower warps unless necessary.

One thing I never understood is how Voyager expected to get home when they seemed to spend all their time sub light.
 
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