@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Funny how bathrooms don't exist anywhere in the Star Trek universe. (well, maybe a programmer's bathroom was mentioned once). Hate to be stuck in an escape pod for 5 months with no bathroom. Messy!!!🤣
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 dish in TOS and TMP is not the deflector, the deflectors for those ships are the notches to the left the right and below on the secondary hull around the dish which is there for the communication array. Those were integrated together in the Excelsior, it's part of why the borg in first contact were hacking things on top of the dish in first contact because that's the ship's communication system.
No, the TOS dish was a sensor and deflector combo: "Stephen E. Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry's The Making of Star Trek (p. 191) stated of the vessel's prominent dish: "The starship's main sensor-deflector (a parabolic sensor and asteroid-deflector) is located at the front end of the secondary hull."
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.....
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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?
Well, according to Kirk, on two occasions, every starfleet ship had some Corbomite (ether as hull material or omega-level dangerous self-destruct device.)
It's never stated in the show but I've always imagined phasers as close range guns and torpedos as long range guided rockets. As in modern fighter jets.
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
Transporters. My Theory. the Soul, which is an immortal energy, capable of travelling faster than light, prefers being contained inside a body. Then when transporting, once there is more of the body there, than where it started, the soul will switch to the more complete body. While a Transporter Clone is clearly a different entity, and thus in my opinion, is granted a new soul at that time. So Will might be the clone, rather than Thomas.
You forgot shoddy electrical wiring, without a single G.D. circuit breaker to prevent a shower of sparks, fire, (and rocks for some reason) from from exploding out of consoles and equipment when they inevitably overload or are damaged by weapons fire.
It was noted somewhere that replicators cannot replicate energy. Hence if you ask a replicator for a phaser, the power cell on the phaser would be at zero. So with that in mind, how can a phaser be transported?
I don't think a phaser beam travels at the speed of light. It is a particle beam weapon. There were a couple episodes where the phaser was cought mid stream - one where some crew were moving faster than everyone else and another where they were treansported while firing. The speed light is way too fast even for people that were speeded up.
If engineers figured out a way for incoming energy beams to converted into shield power than battles would be pointless and there would be far more negotiations.
I forget which series or book had that. The enemy eventually found out that they could overload the conversion system by putting too much energy into it too quickly.
@@Tim.Stotelmeyer I'm sure that such an obvious loophole has been addressed already. It doesn't surprise me in the least lol Being that heat dissipation is pretty much negated in space aside from the venting plasma plot device it makes sense that such a system could be overloaded easily.
A thought on the name Tractor beam. I've not found evidence of this but I heard second/third hand that they were supposed to be called "Attractor beams" but for some reason when read allowed this got mangled to "a tractor beam" or something along those lines. Do any Trek fans knowledgeable about the early days of production and scripting know if there's any truth in this? Mostly just curious as when I was young I thought it WAS an "attractor beam". :)
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
😂
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.
@ 😆😆
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.
What about inertial dampeners? Or perhaps all those rocks in the ceiling of the bridge lol
Oh, I forgot about those. LMFAO!
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.
Always loved the way Nimoy said "SenSORRS."
Also, love your shirt!
A deep dive on subspace communications and personal communicators would be interesting.
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" )
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.
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.
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.
01:00 Grapplers are cool.
Exploding consoles, ceiling rocks, and, of course, the holodeck [bleep] filter.
Sometime they are scheduled to get the items on Tuesday but don't have them at the soft launch
Mirror Universe Kirk found the Tantalus Field very handy.
Every Starship captain should have one.
A few people wish they had one now...
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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 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
This is one of my favorite topics!
LOVE the t-shirt man!!!😁
Totally love the t shirt 😍😍😍
Gotta love your teeshirt. Classic!
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?🤔
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.
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.
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.
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.
Very interesting! How about the gadgets and gizmos next? Communicators, tricorders, etc.
I always wondered it the Tractor Beams were Cat or John Deer
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.
How did you NOT include Data singing about his love of scanning for life forms?
Funny how bathrooms don't exist anywhere in the Star Trek universe. (well, maybe a programmer's bathroom was mentioned once). Hate to be stuck in an escape pod for 5 months with no bathroom. Messy!!!🤣
There is a bathroom on the bridge of the enterprise. Also when the Borg cut out a section of the enterprise in next generation you can see a toilet
@@OldManYellsAtClouds we've also seen bathrooms on the NX-01 and communal showers on the Cerritos.
Janeway shared her bathroom with Frasier.
B'Ellana has a bathroom in her quarters
_Star Trek V_ has a scene that takes place in the loo, though you have to be paying attention to recognize it as such.
I thought number 1 would be Universal Translators cuz they're built into everything.
But i love the grappler
3:35 - where are TOS and TMP Enterprise Escape Pods then?
Just not shown like the toiletts 😉
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)?
Merry Christmas
Good list, but you're forgetting the one thing onboard that can control everything else on the list: The ship's computer.
Such an interesting lore video!
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" 😅
The dish in TOS and TMP is not the deflector, the deflectors for those ships are the notches to the left the right and below on the secondary hull around the dish which is there for the communication array. Those were integrated together in the Excelsior, it's part of why the borg in first contact were hacking things on top of the dish in first contact because that's the ship's communication system.
No, the TOS dish was a sensor and deflector combo: "Stephen E. Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry's The Making of Star Trek (p. 191) stated of the vessel's prominent dish: "The starship's main sensor-deflector (a parabolic sensor and asteroid-deflector) is located at the front end of the secondary hull."
Loving the shirt!
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.....
Dude wtf is that t-shirt all about 😂😂😂
👁️🫦👁️
fun
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.
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.
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.
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.
It took me 6 and a half minutes before I saw where the Tin Man's left hand was! 🤣
Did you specifically look for a currency in which antimatter costs *47* trillion, or was that just a happy coincidence?
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.
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.
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...
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.
All starfleet ships have exploding consoles. And i think they all have falling light fixtures.
Rocks. So many rocks.
@@arcturionblade1077 They make the consoles work properly.
Falling bridge chandeliers
You missed some:
Warp core
Deflector array
Shields
Sensors
Computer(s)
Communications array(s)
Life support (atmosphere, temperature)
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.
1:11 - Graivtons and graviolies.
You mentioned escape pods. Have we ever fully looked into how different they are, capacity exc.
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.
Seán! You all missed an opportunity. You could have shown a certain animated admiral talking about "sen-soars"...
According to halfscreen defiant layout it could hold like 3 of those baby shuttles ; unless I read it wrong which it could be
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?
Universal translator?
Well, according to Kirk, on two occasions, every starfleet ship had some Corbomite (ether as hull material or omega-level dangerous self-destruct device.)
It's never stated in the show but I've always imagined phasers as close range guns and torpedos as long range guided rockets. As in modern fighter jets.
Love the t-shirt
In the first season of TNG, they forgot how to use the repel feature of the tractor beam.
Great video but I was extremely distracted by Shawn's t-shirt 😅
Not being able to create anti-matter at volume is not a problem until we have a practical way to store it. :p
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
Transporters. My Theory. the Soul, which is an immortal energy, capable of travelling faster than light, prefers being contained inside a body. Then when transporting, once there is more of the body there, than where it started, the soul will switch to the more complete body. While a Transporter Clone is clearly a different entity, and thus in my opinion, is granted a new soul at that time. So Will might be the clone, rather than Thomas.
You forgot the ceiling rocks. Every ship has ceiling rocks
Deflector Shields? Mentioned with the Deflector Dish, as not unlike, but still different. Also the K'tinga class battle cruisers Deflector Plates.
8:27 I think you mean to say "the OTHER Riker maneuver"
It would be incorrect to say that all federation starships have shuttles.
Runabouts don't.
You forgot shoddy electrical wiring, without a single G.D. circuit breaker to prevent a shower of sparks, fire, (and rocks for some reason) from from exploding out of consoles and equipment when they inevitably overload or are damaged by weapons fire.
Antimatter can be produced anywhere, not just at CERN.
ZYou forgot the human food that naturally contains more antimatter than any other....BANANAS!
It was noted somewhere that replicators cannot replicate energy. Hence if you ask a replicator for a phaser, the power cell on the phaser would be at zero. So with that in mind, how can a phaser be transported?
Oberth class vessels were cool looking 😎....That was a class alll to itself indeed.....secondary hall unlike the other ships.....or, "The Pod" 😂
How about a secondary deflector? I think most of the ships have it
Like the t-shirt.
All ships are equipped with rocks in the ceilings.
And in the walls. And the consoles. And the lights.
I don't think a phaser beam travels at the speed of light. It is a particle beam weapon. There were a couple episodes where the phaser was cought mid stream - one where some crew were moving faster than everyone else and another where they were treansported while firing. The speed light is way too fast even for people that were speeded up.
5:04 Except in certain beta Canon sources where impulse engines are the precurser to modern warp engines
La'An Loves Grapplers = lolol
If engineers figured out a way for incoming energy beams to converted into shield power than battles would be pointless and there would be far more negotiations.
I forget which series or book had that. The enemy eventually found out that they could overload the conversion system by putting too much energy into it too quickly.
@@Tim.Stotelmeyer I'm sure that such an obvious loophole has been addressed already. It doesn't surprise me in the least lol
Being that heat dissipation is pretty much negated in space aside from the venting plasma plot device it makes sense that such a system could be overloaded easily.
you forgot the rocks
No mention of shields?
No Heisenberg compensators or Inertial dampeners?🤓
Every ship also has rocks that fall down the crew whenever they take a hit
Do the TRANSTATOR.
grapplers are cool.
Did the Protostar have ready-to-go shuttles? Or did they rely on the vehicle replicator 3D printer for that?
A thought on the name Tractor beam. I've not found evidence of this but I heard second/third hand that they were supposed to be called "Attractor beams" but for some reason when read allowed this got mangled to "a tractor beam" or something along those lines. Do any Trek fans knowledgeable about the early days of production and scripting know if there's any truth in this? Mostly just curious as when I was young I thought it WAS an "attractor beam". :)