OT: Revised Edition Star Trek

[NullAshton]

What is a TB field? That last sentence that Suicide Junkie said, I did not understand that. What do you mean telling?

The nacelles are powered by the energy from the matter/antimatter reaction system, using the high-energy plasma flow to create the warp field.

And yes, they have to worry about enthropy. Only about a third of power that goes into the warp nacelles actually moves the ship.

[Suicide Junkie]

TB = Technobabble.

And one of the nifty side effects is that you don't absolutely need an antimatter reactor. It is by far the most compact and powerful energy source, of course, but not absolutely critical for limping home.

[NullAshton]

Impulse drive uses the fusion engine like a regular fusion drive... This would be the exhaust, probally. Hmmm. Computer core operates faster than light, using some form of warp field I think.

[Suicide Junkie]

The impulse drive supposedly generates fractional warp fields in order to allow the ship to zoom around without time dilation effects and huge thrust plumes during those 1000g accelerations to significant fractions of c.

[NullAshton]

That's highly energy-inefficient. Why would they have those openings on the rear of the saucer section and battle section, then? They don't use warp fields near planets, because it's not always accurate. A little mistake, and bam, you run smack into a planet.

[Suicide Junkie]

Why don't you go look it up in your tech manual then? Its not like they're going fast enough that they'll not see a planet coming.

[NullAshton]

6.1, Impulse Drive

Two main impulse engines on the back of the saucer section, one strip on the battle section labled Main impulse engine.

10 km/second² acceleration for the impulse engines, which is reached by a small driver coil to do a small distortion of the space around the enterprise, allowing speedy acceleration. Interesting. Normal impulse operations are limited to 0.25c, for time dilation reasons. Impulse drive is much more efficient that warp drive, however, at 85% efficency at 0.5c.

[Suicide Junkie]

While efficiency of scale makes sense for the bigger drive, trying to run it too far below or above its designed "sweet spot" will naturally drop efficiency into the crapper.

[NullAshton]

Like warp drive, which is why it's more efficient to stick to intergral warp factors...

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Of course, we can completly redesign that.