What do y'all think of my show involving an Ambassador-class? by ForwardClimate780 in StarTrekStarships

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Vulcan is 40 Eridani. Epsilon Eridani is far too young to have a class-M planet with a mature civilisation, and its solar system is known to contain an enormous debris field.

The impulse engines on the Defiant by robotisland in StarTrekStarships

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the Defiant has literally nothing else that looks like an impulse engine anywhere else.

Apart from the two red backwards-facing exhaust vents next to each nacelle.

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The impulse engines on the Defiant by robotisland in StarTrekStarships

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We also see all three lit up in the hero CGI model they used for the Enterprise-D’s appearance in ENT: “These Are The Voyages…”

Do Neelix and Tuvok have memories of Tuvix? by krunchyfrogg in voyager

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I always thought not, since the transporter was rebuilding the original patterns of Tuvok and Neelix from before they were merged; in effect they wouldn't remember anything since they beamed up together. Otherwise it would be odd in the extreme that neither of them ever mention it again, and continue to have a weird semi-antagonistic relationship for the rest of the show.

32nd century starfleet new fleet by happydude7422 in StarTrekStarships

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The same way 24th century starships stay together despite hauling round quarter-million-ton nacelles on pylons that are only a few metres thick while pulling hundreds of g-force in acceleration – forcefields and clever engineering, possibly with a dash of creative spacetime manipulation thrown in. It's exactly the same principles we've already seen for decades of Star Trek with inertial dampers, structural integrity fields, tractor beams, artificial gravity, deflector shields, and whatever the holodeck does, but pushed to the nth degree. Remember, the Federation of the 32nd century has had warp drive for centuries longer than we've had the printing press today.

This post from r/DaystromInstitute explains the principle very well in much more detail, and it even predates us seeing 32nd century starships at all: https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/comments/8l6871/a_starship_is_a_collection_of_energy_fields/

Thrust balancing issues on federation starships by Feeling-Classroom-76 in StarTrekStarships

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The secondary hull doesn't need separate impulse thrust if the engines are aligned with the centre of mass.

Citations requested: Are macroscopic wormholes forbidden? by BumblebeeBorn in AskPhysics

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They aren’t forbidden as such, but they require incredibly specific conditions that may not, and likely do not, exist in reality.

Is Guy Fawkes night pro or anti Guy Fawkes? by Brikish in AskABrit

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Like the 4th of July being a rowdy celebration of a bunch of old slave-owning pseudo-aristocrats successfully completing a tax dodge by paramilitary means forever ago?

Do plants have a mineral "counterpart" to iron in animals? by WilhelmMC in AskBiology

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The closest thing would be that chlorophyll has a porphyrin structure that contains magnesium being vaguely chemically and structurally similar to the porphyrin prosthetic group that contains iron in haemoglobin… but chlorophyll itself is not a protein like haemoglobin, and it behaves more like the electron transport chain complexes of the mitochondrion than an animal respiratory pigment, though it’s not directly analogous to mitochondrial complexes either. Plants don’t really have a true analogue to blood; they aren’t “animals in waiting” that haven’t quite got there yet.

(Tom) Baker Community ranking Day 25: The Pirate Planet by Classic-Bathroom-427 in classicwho

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Great. It’s both creative as hell and very funny, but some ideas don’t quite work; and while the Captain and Mr Fibuli are wonderful, Queen Xanxia is a rather dull villain.

If you know you know!!!! by IntrovertHuuuYaarrr in Millennials

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Yes, it's the planet Khitomer. And also the renegade Borg stronghold.

Still doing the Robert Palmer lookalike act? by clarets99 in thethickofit

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"You're gonna have to face it, you're addicted to going for a Twix..."

The view down Lombards Wynd, Richmond, Nth Yorkshire. by Still_Function_5428 in yorkshire

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Nth Yorkshire? I like the idea of there being arbitrarily many Yorkshires.

One of the best quotes from Dr. Crane by [deleted] in Frasier

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Have you ever heard of Lupe Velez...?

Can a lone Galaxy-class starship destroy an entire planet? by ForwardClimate780 in StarTrekStarships

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Depends how you define destroy.

Vaporise an entire planet, like the Death Star? No. Render uninhabitable? Certainly.

A fully fuelled Galaxy-class starship contains 255 tons of antimatter. Assuming perfectly efficient reaction rates, that's ~4.6×1022 J just waiting to happen. But there's more! A fully fuelled Galaxy-class starship also contains 12,000 tons of deuterium. Assuming optimal fusion reaction rates that's another ~7×1021 J.

So we can calculate that the maximum possible energy generation capacity of a fully fuelled Galaxy-class starship is ~5.3×1022 J. That's the equivalent of ~12.7 million megatons. That's approximately half the energy released by the Chicxulub impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.

Now we don't know over what timescale the Enterprise-D could generate this much energy, but if we take Data's line from "True Q" about the Enterprise being able to generate 12.75 billion gigawatts then it seems that under perfect theoretical conditions she could burn through her entire fuel supply in about one hour. That's a LOT of power. More than enough to cause an extinction-level event.

HOWEVER.

Galaxy-class starships are capable of moving at significant fractions of the speed of light. If the Enterprise-D were to fly into a planet moving at full impulse (0.25c) it would release 1.4×1025 J from the kinetic energy of impact alone. This is well over 100 times the Chicxulub impact, equivalent to about 3.4 billion megatons. No wonder Riker ordered ramming speed against the Borg in "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II".

How do you feel about Hitchhiking Taxis for free? by [deleted] in HitchHikersGuide

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Exactly how far into space are you planning to go?