Tango01 | 04 Jun 2014 9:31 p.m. PST |
damaging space?
Or did they? "In the TNG episode "Forces of Nature", two alien scientists reveal that warp drive is damaging spacetime, with the area the episode takes place in being badly affected. This is demonstrated quite drastically after one of the scientists blows up her ship via warp core breach just to prove their point. After this, the Federation imposed a "speed limit" of warp five to mitigate damage. What strikes me is that Starfleet or the Federation's scientists didn't know that warp drive could damage spacetime. Not once while they were developing newer, faster engines did anyone stumble upon evidence or even a notion that warp had such a negative effect?
" Full article here link Amicalement Armand |
Parzival | 04 Jun 2014 10:41 p.m. PST |
One of the dumbest episodes of TNG. It made no sense from start to finish, and eventually was (deservedly) ignored in the canon. |
Mithmee | 04 Jun 2014 10:48 p.m. PST |
Social Programing. It doesn't have to make sense only get their Social Programing out. |
Stealth1000 | 04 Jun 2014 11:23 p.m. PST |
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Winston Smith | 04 Jun 2014 11:28 p.m. PST |
You do realize that Star Trek is just fantasy, right? It has never had the right to call itself "science" fiction. This is like worrying about the ecological effect of the dragons in Game of Thrones. Or the Endor Holocaust. |
ochoin | 05 Jun 2014 3:16 a.m. PST |
I think it was a misguided allusion to man-made environmental damage. I'm a ST fan in nearly all of its versions but even I get annoyed when the show gets too preachy. |
forrester | 05 Jun 2014 4:32 a.m. PST |
A peculiar self-limiting development. To boldly go, just not too fast please. |
Col Durnford | 05 Jun 2014 5:47 a.m. PST |
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FreddBloggs | 05 Jun 2014 7:19 a.m. PST |
You mean like burning coal before we knew it gave off sulphur and created acid rain, or CO2 and s the atmosphere. Possibly the most realistic episode ever made! |
tberry7403 | 05 Jun 2014 7:27 a.m. PST |
Potholes In Space! I also did not like the "social preachiness" of the episode, but
It was an interesting idea. If "true" however then the space between and around the major worlds (Earth, Vulcan, etc.) should be damn near "undriveable" be this time. And Armand, who says Star Fleet doesn't know what's happening? Won't be the first time a government hid/fudged scientific findings that got in the way of what it wanted to do. |
darthfozzywig | 05 Jun 2014 8:37 a.m. PST |
"I can't drive 55". LOL If "true" however then the space between and around the major worlds (Earth, Vulcan, etc.) should be damn near "undriveable" be this time. Nah, because most every ST episode appears to happen in its own pocket universe. The outcome of one hardly ever affects another episode. The joys of close-ended syndication! |
javelin98 | 05 Jun 2014 9:15 a.m. PST |
That episode is a microcosm of everything I hated about TNG. |
Fabe Mrk 2 | 06 Jun 2014 7:55 p.m. PST |
If I recall it was only that one area of space that was negatively affected by warp drives,not the whole universe. |
Gearhead | 07 Jun 2014 3:28 p.m. PST |
Bah. Star Trek has, over the run of the various series, discovered and then completely forgotten so many Best/Worst Technologies Ever that it's ceased to even be a joke! |