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narf poit chez BOOM said:
Current list: Linear or exponential warp. Tachyons or exhaust to penatrate cloak or tachyons and exhaust. Many quadrants or four quadrants. Artificial gravity or no artificial gravity. Time travel or no time travel. Q or no Q. Borg or no Borg.
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Warp
should be exponential. Otherwise, at the really high speeds, you get odd situations with slightly fluctuating warp speeds (say, between 276 and 280 or so), it seems kinda awkward when synchronizing speeds (and especially acceleration), moreover, it just sounds wierd.
Tachyons are supposed to be FTL particles according to ST lore. Me, I believe in "tachyons" in RL, but I think they have little place in sci-fi, even if it would be just because of the fact that IT IS SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE TO CAPTURE AND UTILIZE A TACHYON. Exhaust, temperature, seems right but what makes more sense to me; gravitic distortions. Each object emits gravity, and in the near-vacuum of space, the gravity emitted by a cloaked ship would be almost laughably easy to find. However, you might get interference from such things as dark matter clumps, but that aside..... I say go with gravitic sensors to detect cloaked ships.
Look at the word; "quadrant". Look at the first four letters; "quad". Exactly. Sure, you'll have smaller dividers (like Sections, Regions, Sectors, Vicinities (i.e. Badlands vicinity), Systems, Orbits), but "quadrant" implies "one of four sections".
Maybe TNG featured a gravity
generator (like that
abomination Enterprise does), DS9 features gravity
plating. Trust me, I have the DS9 Technical Manual so I guess that counts as canon. Gravity plating consists of a large net of gravity generators.....
each about the length of a US football. I say either a gravity (well) generator, or zero-G, mag-boots and a warp core which emits a gravity well allowing people to walk on it.
No time travel. Reasons? Well, for one it is
physically impossible and plainly stupid. Time travel is generally stupid, except in H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, and perhaps some other sources I don't know about.
Q = God. ST = science. Q =/= ST.
Borg..... well, possibly. Only then A.) they use nanoprobes for a heck of a lot more tasks than just assimilation, or B.) their ships are (partially) organic. No Borg Queen, no Locutus. Both are plainly stupid.
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Also, for purposes of avoiding fits of rage, Enterprise (shudder) is considered to be absolutely
non-canon. I mean, they made First Contact with the Ferengi, the Romulans and the Xindi. The Romulans were only first encountered in TOS, the Ferengi in TNG and the Xindi weren't encountered at all in later series. Enterprise = biggest [censored section is five pages long] to
ever have been broadcast under the Star Trek moniker. And don't give me that "Enterprise isn't ST 'cause there's no ST in the title" sh***, Enterprise has warp drives, Zephram Cochrane, and the Vulcans. Hence, Enterprise is ST. Enterprise is
NOT canon. [/rant]