Voyager had some cool design choices though. Not specific to the warp core/Engineering. Just overall. Such a well designed ship. Maybe a little "cool for cool's sake" but I was a teenager when it started airing and I liked it. Still do.
Yea picard had the office with the fish that was right off the bridge. Sisko had his office with the baseball on the desk right off ops. Don't remember Kirk having one. I think there were ones in the newer shows too. Janeway I think still had the best one though.
Every time I think of the Ent-D warp core I think if the scene where Data and Geordie are testing some alien disruptor weapon literally next to the warp core, and with it pointed directly at the core . Cracks me up.
In a documentary with writers who worked with Roddenberry they said it was his design choice for all ships. Apparently warp nacelles are supposed to have 40% empty space between them for the warp field to generate. In Voyager they rotated up to exit the plane of the ship.
Even as a kid that grew up with Voyager, the first thing that comes to mind is the shot of Picard pointing to the smiley face he drew in the smoke/fog/plasma/whatever as the vote was staying to explode while time was (close to) frozen. Or maybe it was frozen, it's been a long time since I saw that episode.
Special mention to Voyager, specifically having an entire spare warp core on board, tucked away in the bowels of the ship with no explanation for this given. No explanation especially given as to how the hell it's supposed to be relocated and installed. Maybe with tractor beams or something, who knows.
If the crew could have managed to remember this, it would have made S04E03 a lot shorter.
Well, they can't just leave an unstable warp core floating around in one of the weird sections of space. People are willing to risk their lives over just some of the plasma. They were close enough to retrieve it, also the Klingon engineer was having a bad day. Crew was just helping her save face. Dumping a warp core is like separating the saucer; only to be done if necessary.
Sure, but slapping the spare in there so the ship could be fully capable and ready to retrieve the thing, even if only to blow it up, would have been significantly smarter than sending out the two lovebirds in a dinky shuttle. And probably a damn sight faster, too.
They weren't lovebirds until faced with death...after the dinky shuttle dinked out.
Voyager has a Borg and several Vulcans...yet somehow manages to remain the least logical crew. Still one of my favorite crews, I just wish they could've figured out how to keep 'One' alive. Don't even get me started on Tuvix.
That seems right, I could see the doctor having a great time troubleshooting an issue with the warp engine waving his sonic screwdriver around like a wand trying to fix things.
I think I actually prefer the Ritos; it takes what’s good about the TNG warp core and makes it feel a bit more spacious without turning the ship into a Tardis - looking at you, SNW Enterprise warp core and DISCO turbolifts!
EDIT: Tardis in the sense it’s bigger on the inside - I think wibbly wobbly timey wimey has always been a given in Starfleet.
All I know is that there’s a disturbing amount of weapons tests, alien artifacts, engineering experiments happening immediately out of frame in every image.
I just gotta say that I appreciate that SNW kept the basic design of TOS and made it look more realistic to modern eyes. It is the same ship, after all.
My problem with it is that it seems to be this truly vast space and they only ever interact with about 5% of it.
They also seem to go out of their way to hardly ever show it, I don't think it's been depicted even once in this new season. At one point they even have Pellia come up from engineering and say that it's been filled with toxic gas but we never actually see that happen. Has something happened to the set?
voyager used transwarp coil once, and enhanced like several other times. the fake copy(fdemony planet) had the enhanced warp drive higher warp sustained longer i believe, and they modified for quatum slipstream later on. i dont believe any of the other series modified thier warp core as much as voyager did.
Bah! Feh! You kids and your fancy plastic doodads and thingamajigs all over the place. High-falutin’ shapes and colors!
MY trek’s warp core is several pieces of scrap lumber carefully stapled to the wall and lit with a single 40 watt red bulb! As nature intended! And we liked it that way! We loved it!
Bcs it feels the least contemporary, and the most (along with TNG?) like it was designed & built with the (design & manufacture) tech presented in the shows.
Imho.
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TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 46 pts · 358d
Voyager does have one of the best engineering play sets, but the hum of the D is easily the most comforting.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 30 pts · 358d
Pure word association for warp core, the image in my mind is TNG's Enterprise-D
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 357d
Always TNG/Ent-D.
Voyager had some cool design choices though. Not specific to the warp core/Engineering. Just overall. Such a well designed ship. Maybe a little "cool for cool's sake" but I was a teenager when it started airing and I liked it. Still do.
Rafferty@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 356d
Janeway had the best ready room. Huge windows and giant comfy couch.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 356d
Did Kirk and Sisko have ready rooms? I remember they had private quarters (they all did). Picard's was just an office.
Rafferty@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 356d
Yea picard had the office with the fish that was right off the bridge. Sisko had his office with the baseball on the desk right off ops. Don't remember Kirk having one. I think there were ones in the newer shows too. Janeway I think still had the best one though.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 355d
Was Sisko's office a ready room though? I think it was just the commander's office.
Maybe they serve the same function. I'm well aware of Sisko's office, but I just never thought of it as a ready room.
nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 355d
Every time I think of the Ent-D warp core I think if the scene where Data and Geordie are testing some alien disruptor weapon literally next to the warp core, and with it pointed directly at the core . Cracks me up.
militaryintelligence@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 357d
Never understood why voyager's nacelles moved before warping. Seems purely aesthetic with no use other than to distinguish it.
data1701d@startrek.website · 4 pts · 357d
In canon, it was described as an implementation of “variable warp geometry”.
GraniteM@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 356d
To keep repeated warp use from destroying the fabric of spacetime, like in that episode where they talked about the warp speed limit.
AlchemicalAgent@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 356d
In a documentary with writers who worked with Roddenberry they said it was his design choice for all ships. Apparently warp nacelles are supposed to have 40% empty space between them for the warp field to generate. In Voyager they rotated up to exit the plane of the ship.
echodot@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 355d
It's also the reason that the romulan ships have that big space in the middle.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 356d
Basically that. It made for good TV.
Now I'm wondering if Discovery needed to spin or if that was more of the same.
teft@piefed.social · 19 pts · 358d
The D has the best warp core. Here is an hour of soothing sounds of the D:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUgj5gGkrFw
grue@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 358d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oobIAEhXuU
quid_pro_joe@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 358d
Unrelated to warp cores (agree on the D), here is 8 hours of social-comforting ambience courtesy of Voyager's mess hall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmpKpmup95w
Sanctus@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 358d
D is my home
fuckgod@feddit.online · 17 pts · 358d
Even as a kid that grew up with Voyager, the first thing that comes to mind is the shot of Picard pointing to the smiley face he drew in the smoke/fog/plasma/whatever as the vote was staying to explode while time was (close to) frozen. Or maybe it was frozen, it's been a long time since I saw that episode.
quid_pro_joe@infosec.pub · 9 pts · 358d
Time was moving so slow that only Data could see the warp core breach in motion.
fuckgod@feddit.online · 3 pts · 354d
Ah. Close enough.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 358d
Special mention to Voyager, specifically having an entire spare warp core on board, tucked away in the bowels of the ship with no explanation for this given. No explanation especially given as to how the hell it's supposed to be relocated and installed. Maybe with tractor beams or something, who knows.
If the crew could have managed to remember this, it would have made S04E03 a lot shorter.
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 358d
Use emergency power to transport it into place? But yeah... plot reasons likely prevented its use.
TBi@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 357d
Probably it’s a placeholder for where a second one could be kept but it was not equipped at the time.
Could be covered in universe with someone complaining that the backup core wasn’t installed yet.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 357d
It was supposed to be installed on Tuesday
brem@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 358d
Well, they can't just leave an unstable warp core floating around in one of the weird sections of space. People are willing to risk their lives over just some of the plasma. They were close enough to retrieve it, also the Klingon engineer was having a bad day. Crew was just helping her save face. Dumping a warp core is like separating the saucer; only to be done if necessary.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 358d
Sure, but slapping the spare in there so the ship could be fully capable and ready to retrieve the thing, even if only to blow it up, would have been significantly smarter than sending out the two lovebirds in a dinky shuttle. And probably a damn sight faster, too.
brem@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 358d
They weren't lovebirds until faced with death...after the dinky shuttle dinked out.
Voyager has a Borg and several Vulcans...yet somehow manages to remain the least logical crew. Still one of my favorite crews, I just wish they could've figured out how to keep 'One' alive. Don't even get me started on Tuvix.
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social · 13 pts · 358d
I actually like the ENT one, having it on it's side in a housing makes it feel more "engine-y" I guess.
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 358d
Feels right. Just too bad it was before they'd developed an ejection protocol.
QueenMidna@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 358d
I see a lack of Enterprise E's warp core. It's a mixture between the Voyager layout and the Enterprise D layout
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 358d
There's a lot of Enterprises already on display, but fair is fair.
Also omitted the Kelvin core, for, reasons.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 357d
I humbly submit myself for this poll.
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 357d
Eject them all.
Harvey656@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 358d
D, defiant and voyager all look like tardis consoles and it's crazy I never realized that until this picture.
Honytawk@feddit.nl · 7 pts · 357d
Or the Doctor is just a big Star Trek fan, so all their consoles look like warp engines.
Harvey656@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 357d
That seems right, I could see the doctor having a great time troubleshooting an issue with the warp engine waving his sonic screwdriver around like a wand trying to fix things.
data1701d@startrek.website · 9 pts · 358d
I think I actually prefer the Ritos; it takes what’s good about the TNG warp core and makes it feel a bit more spacious without turning the ship into a Tardis - looking at you, SNW Enterprise warp core and DISCO turbolifts!
EDIT: Tardis in the sense it’s bigger on the inside - I think wibbly wobbly timey wimey has always been a given in Starfleet.
vithigar@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 355d
Discovery's turbolifts was actually the thing that made me fully check out from taking the show even the slightest bit seriously.
sundray@lemmus.org · 9 pts · 358d
Warp core? I've been calling it the intermix chamber! Oh, why didn't anyone tell me I've been making an ass of myself!
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 358d
teft@piefed.social · 5 pts · 358d
I'm the X is the saddest mathematical ballad ever.
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 358d
And a very competitive field at that.
FlatFootFox@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 358d
All I know is that there’s a disturbing amount of weapons tests, alien artifacts, engineering experiments happening immediately out of frame in every image.
DmMacniel@feddit.org · 6 pts · 358d
Voyager.
and regards to the pic: Last chance to be a hero Doctor, get going!
I loved that episode
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 358d
Thanks for noticing. One of my favorite episodes.
DmMacniel@feddit.org · 13 pts · 358d
Tuvok, prepare the photonic cannon!
Its one of my favourite as well; come to think of it, most of my favourites are centered around the Doctor.
Soapbox@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 356d
I just gotta say that I appreciate that SNW kept the basic design of TOS and made it look more realistic to modern eyes. It is the same ship, after all.
echodot@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 355d
My problem with it is that it seems to be this truly vast space and they only ever interact with about 5% of it.
They also seem to go out of their way to hardly ever show it, I don't think it's been depicted even once in this new season. At one point they even have Pellia come up from engineering and say that it's been filled with toxic gas but we never actually see that happen. Has something happened to the set?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 357d
voyager used transwarp coil once, and enhanced like several other times. the fake copy(fdemony planet) had the enhanced warp drive higher warp sustained longer i believe, and they modified for quatum slipstream later on. i dont believe any of the other series modified thier warp core as much as voyager did.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 358d
Bah! Feh! You kids and your fancy plastic doodads and thingamajigs all over the place. High-falutin’ shapes and colors!
MY trek’s warp core is several pieces of scrap lumber carefully stapled to the wall and lit with a single 40 watt red bulb! As nature intended! And we liked it that way! We loved it!
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 358d
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 357d
Anything pre nu-trek is nice, after that the plot was lost on everything including designs so nope.
Best one? TNG, always, though voyager was quite nice too, very "I can see myself working here" on both
Tattorack@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 356d
Voyager's warp core? Nah, that's not my favourite at all. My favourite warp core is from the Enterprise E.
... Wait...
BootLoop@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 358d
D for sound, NX-01 for style
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 357d
Bcs it feels the least contemporary, and the most (along with TNG?) like it was designed & built with the (design & manufacture) tech presented in the shows. Imho.
IcedRaktajino@startrek.website · 1 pts · 358d
MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 358d