Starship Transmission

[Vex Xiang 0]

Would Starfleet engineers really make warp cores put out an increasing amount of power for higher warp velocities, or do starships have a 'transmission' of sorts that allows them to cruise with less power?

 

What do you think?

[Sam_SemaJ 0]

You know what I think by my signiture

 

In all reality, i think it is plausable that the engine power could be routed through a system with interchanging converters or transormers before going to the thrusters. it certainly doesnt make sense at warp, the warp factor is most likely a factor of how volatile the M/AM reaction is. For impulse though, it is a concept that shouldn't be thrown out.

[Images 0]

I'm just wondering what their plans are for the effect high speed warp drive has on space. It's the global warming of the Star Trek universe!

[Sam_SemaJ 0]

The argo is most definately a stick (in my opinion) no matter how advanced a system you make for a vehicle to change gears at the right time, It doesnt equal the level of control over the engine functions that stick has. and you can play more when you have a clutch! I suppose the warp drive could be thought of like a snow-mobile engine. That is a conical cylindar with a belt on it. warp may work something like that???

[OHNO 0]

That's all we need. Star ships burning.........what ever, out there and all that speeding and stuff. That what a stick will give you, TROUBLE. :P

[Seiben 0]

Yeah, I think that's what the M/AM chamber is for. :P

[Sam_SemaJ 0]

A car with me controlling the clutch and grearshift would drive smoother than my car's automatic...that doesn't necesarrily say i'm the greatest stick driver, heck i'm not even bosting, it just shows you how screwed up my automatic transmission is

[Sam_SemaJ 0]

hehe :P

[Vex Xiang 0]

Well the reason I thought about it was because of Voyager's "folding nacelle" design...what if at faster warp speeds, the shape of the warp bubble could be adjusted to take advantage of different subspace conditions at those speeds...so the ship could fly up to say warp 3, adjust the warp field and drop their power output, then kick up the power to get to warp 6, then adjust and drop the power back down...something like that.

 

Thoughts?

[Sam_SemaJ 0]

rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, chunk, rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, chunk, rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

 

I'm not sure...i'm not really a warp science expert, but i suppose that a different field shape/bubble would provide different effectiveness at different speeds. that is after all similar to the conical drum in a snow-mobile engine mentioned above

[Vex Xiang 0]

Yeah, I think that's what the M/AM chamber is for.

 

Well the M/AM chamber just combines M/AM and focuses it into a plasma stream through the dilithium crystals which flows out the Power Transfer Conduits to the warp coils which generate a warp field. I think the power output is constant when at particular speeds.

[Sam_SemaJ 0]

well the dilithium crystals are there to keep the reaction from becoming a m/am explosion, then the power it creates, in the form of ? energy, heat, electrical i'm not sure, and chanells it. but i'm not sure how that energy "propels the ship" it doesnt shoot out the nacells like thrusters, they create a field...and thats where my understanding of it drops off

[Nemesis 0]

I like real cars, I can understand how their engines work...

[Sam_SemaJ 0]

yeah, good point, as difficult of a decidsion as it is...i would take a 67 Shelby GT 500 over the ARGO

[Tovan 0]

I'm sure the M/AM chamber narrows its magnetic fields to control explosions and computer controls the amount of power being transferred to any system eh?

[Neversummer 0]

It would definitly be a manual for me. Just think of how fast you could make 180's with a hand-brake on a starship.

[Sam_SemaJ 0]

yep...i did some stuff like that when i was in the academy

Edited February 16, 2005 by Sam_SemaJ

[Dumbass 0]

You press the "Warp" button, then the "7" button, and it goes Warp 7! Sheesh, why make it so complicated?

[Travis Kroells 0]

::Pushes the reverse, and warp button, and waits to see what happens::

[Sam_SemaJ 0]

::Pushes the reverse, and warp button, and waits to see what happens::

::watches him push the reverse warp button, and proceeds to watch the black hole form where the ship used to be...:: :P

[Neversummer 0]

::Pushes the gas pedal::

 

Thats easy too.

[Sam_SemaJ 0]

::lets out the starship's clutch out to fast, ship bucks and then drifts, powerless through space...tries to avoid the stares of the rest of the bridge crew as he cranks the engine::...what? :P

[Neversummer 0]

::speeds across the slick surface of space, pulls his E-brake and spins 540 degrees, crew looks sick::

[Sam_SemaJ 0]

Buckle you're ID's everyone! ::pulls up his own ebrake, shifts into Rev while spinning 180 degrees, straightens out and drives high speed backwards, then jerks the yaw control (not as fun as a wheel) to the side and shifts into 2nd, comming out of the second spin going straight:: wooo hoooo ::smasshes the chlutch and brake, brining the ship to a screaching fishtailing halt:: well, the helm controls are in working order captain...captain? sees the captain and the rest of the bridge crew frozen with eyes shut white knuckling their consoles... :wacko:

[Vex Xiang 0]

Well the starships fly by computer with input from the pilot...

 

The whole fly-by-joystick thing in Insurrection was just weird...there's no way a stick could control a dozen RCS thrusters and impulse engines more efficiently than the ships computer.