OT: Revised Edition Star Trek

Wolfman77 · #1 September 23rd, 2005, 05:55 PM

The TNG manual has gravity generators in it. Enterprise-D uses 1200 total, 800 in the saucer, split into two sections and 400 in the Battle/Engineering section also split into two sections. They are also tied to the Inertial Dampeners. They are only 25cm high and 50cm in diameter, and apperently effective to 30 meters.

Sounds like these, or a smaller version, make up the gravity plating for DS9. I don't think it matters too much which way we go.

Do we want to change things in the ST universe, or just get rid of the things that contradict each other?

I second the motion for no time travel.

Captain Kwok · #2 September 23rd, 2005, 06:19 PM

Exciting stuff.

But instead of revising Star Trek, why don't you just create your own sci-fi universe based on your discussions here and populate it with your own 'plausible' technologies, races, etc?

narf poit chez BOOM · #3 September 24th, 2005, 03:44 AM

Well, I want a rational ST that I can like without having to ignore these jarring plot holes.

Wolfman77 · #4 September 26th, 2005, 10:08 AM

We could do both, but if we want our own universe we should probably do it in a new thread. Keep this for Narf's original idea of a revised ST.

narf poit chez BOOM · #5 September 26th, 2005, 01:09 PM

Poll thread created. http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...&Number=382781

Hey, I'd be interested in that, too.

I'm not running it, though.

narf poit chez BOOM · #6 September 27th, 2005, 08:05 PM

Warp: Exponential; 10-2. (Whine whine oh well)
Cloak detection: Tachyons 4; Exhaust 4; Tachyons and Exhaust 4; None 0. Propose further discussion - If nobody wants to discuss further, Tachyons and Exhaust.
Quadrants: Four; 10-2
Artificial Gravity: Yes; 12-0 (Only clear-cut vote)
Time Travel: No; 11-1
The Q: No; 9-3 (Woot!)
The Borg: Yes; 11-1

Suicide Junkie · #7 September 27th, 2005, 09:16 PM

For the two people who voted for linear warp speeds, please explain why you think talking about "warp 216" instead of a nice easy "warp 6" is a good idea.

El_Phil · #8 September 27th, 2005, 09:16 PM

Going for both makes things flexible, you can have cloaked ships with good anti-tachyon work but bad exhausts, or vice versa. Or, on ships that are suitably rare and expensive, good at beating both.

Come to think of it, how about Romulan cloaks you beat with tachyons, Klingons with exhausts? TNG had the throwing tachyons at Romulan cloaks, and ST:VI sought the Klingon exhausts so it's even consistent! (excluding the hundreds of contradictory examples I've almost certainly forgotten)