Amnot Borg Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 You must be kidding! After inventing warp drive, would you stick to the same solar system? Cochrane must obviously have moved to Alpha Centauri and kept a vacation home on Earth for his lecture circuits, college speeches and statue posing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenebrae Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 The speed limit was - I believe - fixed by angling nacelles or somethng equally unlikely. The real reason if probably that they thought it would be cool if Voyager's nacelles had to "slot" into place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenebrae Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 Also on the transport/replication thing - the white is clearly transported but is unreplicatable... To be honest though, I think that it's more a matter of convenience for script... I say that a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
queenhank Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 Yeah, Cochrane moved to Alpha Centauri after he discovered Warp Drive. In Voyager's first episode, I believe, they said it was redesigned so it could go high warp without damaging space, and I would assume all other Starfleet ships were redesigned in the same way. Those speed restrictions were just temporary, as you'll recal, being necessary until Warp Drive could be redesigned to fix that problem. Well, like I said earlier (jokingly) about replicators vs. transporters is true. You can transport things that can't be replicated because the thing itself is being converted to energy and back again, rather than taking some other energy and turning it into that thing. It's not a convenience of script thing (except for the first time) because after it is said once, everybody has to hold to it. It's not like they said the White can't be replicated, and then replicated it a few episodes later. It can't be replicated, but it can be transported, just like latinum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenebrae Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 You could transporter accident it. Theoretically, you shouldn't be able to replicate a human perfectly but look at Riker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mav Posted January 22, 2006 Author Share Posted January 22, 2006 The speed limit was - I believe - fixed by angling nacelles or somethng equally unlikely. The real reason if probably that they thought it would be cool if Voyager's nacelles had to "slot" into place. Correct me if I am wrong, but wouldn't this require all ships from that point on to have their nacells also do the "slot" into alignment as well? I ask cause, again correct me if wrong, I don't remember the Prometheus doing that. I remember it had the three-part seperation, and Andy Dick as the holographic Mark II doctor, but I don't recall its warp nacells moving into any position. So either they forgot or came up with something new? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenebrae Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 I'm not sure - I think they found a way to modify the warp drive so it didn't do the damage but to be honest, most of this stuff isn't canon. So you just fill in the blanks with the most sensible thing you can. Personally, I'm still waiting for the Federation to develop gigantic transformer robots to fight in space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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