[+] Star Trek Discovery (Fan) Thread

[MarkB]

Do the writers of Disco know this? There's been a whole lot of hand-wavium and traveling and transporting vaster distances than other shows have demonstrated. I'm sure the people involved love star trek, but this series doesn't abide limits.

Yes, they know this. Book's ship has a dilithium recrystalliser built in, he mentions in the first episode that it's malfunctioning and he needs to get it fixed.

And in the third episode it's a significant plot point that the trip to Earth would have been unfeasible for Book without being able to tag along with Discovery's spore drive jump.

If you want something to pick at, it is an awfully convenient coincidence that Book's ship is just perfectly sized and shaped to slot neatly into Discovery's hangar bay.

 

[Zardnaar]

Yes, they know this. Book's ship has a dilithium recrystalliser built in, he mentions in the first episode that it's malfunctioning and he needs to get it fixed.

And in the third episode it's a significant plot point that the trip to Earth would have been unfeasible for Book without being able to tag along with Discovery's spore drive jump.

If you want something to pick at, it is an awfully convenient coincidence that Book's ship is just perfectly sized and shaped to slot neatly into Discovery's hangar bay.

I don't mind this plot point. It's kinda funny.

"Why didn't they invent a different drive system".

Well they did it just disappeared centuries earlier.

Also one naughty word wrecked the shields. Makes sense they're really flying an antique.

I suppose if gps died and oil ran out anyone who knows how to sail and has a sailing ship has an advantage.

 

[Umbran]

On the other hand, they only really need to use dilithium when they're travelling at warp speeds, so this could make their Spore drive even more valuable to them than it already was.

Well, yes and no. The warp core is used to drive the warp engines... and it delivers power to any and all other ship systems. You can presume that shields and phasers will function, but aren't quite up to snuff, when the warp core isn't active.

 

[MarkB]

Well, yes and no. The warp core is used to drive the warp engines... and it delivers power to any and all other ship systems. You can presume that shields and phasers will function, but aren't quite up to snuff, when the warp core isn't active.

True of the shields. For phasers, it'll just take longer to recharge their energy banks after firing them - Starfleet didn't start powering phasers directly from the warp engine until around the time of the Enterprise refit just before Star Trek The Motion Picture.

Probably a moot point in any case, given how outclassed both their shields and weapons must be at this point. Illustrated in the last episode when just a brace of torpedoes completely collapsed their shields.

 

[Umbran]

Probably a moot point in any case, given how outclassed both their shields and weapons must be at this point. Illustrated in the last episode when just a brace of torpedoes completely collapsed their shields.

Yeah. Expect an upgrade very quickly, or it will be difficult to understand how they don't get their dilithium and funky drive system stolen.

 

[Zardnaar]

Yeah. Expect an upgrade very quickly, or it will be difficult to understand how they don't get their dilithium and funky drive system stolen.

Run away a lot.

 

[Umbran]

Run away a lot.

Admittedly, they do have more dilithium than almost anyone, so while others might basically have to watch their warp delta-V, the Discovery can do what it wants.

 

[Zardnaar]

Admittedly, they do have more dilithium than almost anyone, so while others might basically have to watch their warp delta-V, the Discovery can do what it wants.

So theoretically the drives can go boom again?

 

[Nilbog]

I suppose the great unknown so far is that is dilithium now stable? They've not mentioned any boom incidents since the burn.

 

[MarkB]

Admittedly, they do have more dilithium than almost anyone, so while others might basically have to watch their warp delta-V, the Discovery can do what it wants.

On the other hand, Discovery's top speed and acceleration at warp is probably a tiny fraction of that of contemporary ships, so while they can outlast anyone in a chase, they'll have trouble maintaining distance. Spore-drive jumps are their only sure means of escape, and since one of the components of that drive is a human being, they're not always going to be ready to jump on short notice.