Lucky wrote:Universal Translators read thought. Strange, but they are psionic technology it seems.
Or just sensors and MRI's, PET-scanners etc.
In contrast, telepathy is more a mystical phenomenon that they can't explain.
In DS9's "Little Green Men," Quark showed that the UT was a little thing implanted in a person's ear, that allows them to hear
and speak in foreign languages. This doesn't "read thought" from a distance, it's hooked right into their brain, and presumably moves their lips etc. while they talk; so while Quark was speaking normal Ferrenginese to the 1937 humans, it came out as English.
Meanwhile on DS9 station, a new aliens species came to the station from the Gamma Quadrant, and the station's computer had to observe them for a while in order to learn more and more of their language, by observing their speech and actions together; and then after a few days or so, everyone was able to communicate with them normally.
This indicated that the DS9 crew's UT implants were wirelessly connected to the station's LAN, in order to automatically download automatic updates of language-files as soon as they became available.
MauriceWindows wrote:Warp-drive involves stretching and bending space, so as to move the space around the ship rather than vice-versa, and to make the ship longer in comparison to normal space so as to cheat relativity by multiplying the ship's velocity by thousands of times-- i.e. so that the ship is actually moving only about 0.1C in terms of relativity, but actually it's moving over 1000C.
Of course there are factors which limit this speed, but they keep getting better at it.
In order to go to warp they need to reach a certain threshold like breaking the sound barrier, and the speed they need to get to is light speed or near enough.
No, they can just go from full stop to warp in one move.
They often cruse at speeds like .7c as if it is nothing.
And? If they can go faster than light, then obviously they can go slower. They're still bending space to get there, even if they're not actually stretching the ship at that point.
MauriceWindows wrote:Deflectors/tractors simply move objects outside the ship in the same manner, and phasers do so in a disruptive manner.
Well this is seemingly how they are described to work at least.
That's just basic physics, i.e. imparting energy to matter-- in this case
kinetic energy i.e. motion.
MauriceWindows wrote:Subspace communications would seem to produce a small wormhole, which only carries information, but does so over long distances.
Sensors might work in a similar manner.
Where are you getting this information?
Star Trek's official website:
subspace radio
Method of communication that sends electromagnetic signals through subspace, boosting the signal's range and speed to translight velocities. Subspace signals can carry audiovisual data as well as text messages. Within Federation boundaries, a network of relay stations augments subspace communication and amplifying and rerouting messages as needed.
That's also the only thing that would explain the speed of the transmissions, and over the distances covered; nothing else even comes close. During on episode, Riker talks to Quark on DS9, requiring a relay-station, and it's a real-time conversation without the slightest perceptible delay.
MauriceWindows wrote:Torpedoes are just that: i.e. self-propelled warheads which are launched at warp-speed, and which generate a warp-field/shield to sustain the speed and to penetrate enemy-shields, and then detonate either on impact or in proximity.
Well we actually don't know how torpedos travel at FTL speeds. We only know they do.
It's just common sense. To go to warp on the torpedo's own power would drain it, reducing both speed and firepower.
However any object needs a space-warp to either go to FTL speed, or maintain it, and both shields and space-warps work on the same principle.
Torpedos have shield penetrating technologies built into them as we see in Generations.
They just matched the shield-frequencies, allowing it to pass through by cancellation.
Torpedos try to embed themselves into the hull, and have been known to drill into planets.
Well of course, they're designed to penetrate the hull and explode inside of the ship, doing the most damage that way. In "Starship Down" (DS9) for example, we see a Dominion torpedo penetrates right through the Defiant's hull-- but fortunately it was defective and didn't explode, so Quark as able to pick the lock on the chassis and disarm it.
MauriceWindows wrote:Transporters are the most difficult technology to explain, but it might use a short-range version of the subspace communications and warp-technology in order to scan an object from one place to another by creating a holographic 3-D image of the object at the landing-site, and gradually interchanging it by tractor-beam with the real one through the "wormhole" using Quantum-computing to control the massive calculations and information-processing required.
Since this involves the transportation of matter rather than information, it can only be done over a short distance in comparison to the light-years involving communications.
There is some sort of matter to energy thing going on, then you get sent through subspace, and then there is a energy to matter thing going on.
I doubt it. You're talking about an
awful lot of M-E conversion to contain-- and move: over
a 2000 megaton's bomb's worth, to transport a single average-sized person.
That's more than I can accept to be handled by a teeny little transporter-pad.
Rather, particles would need to stay intact, and the only energy transmitted would be the weak binding-forces between atoms and electrons. Even the strong nuclear forces would be too immense to disassemble the core-particles and then re-assemble them at the terminus. Treknology is powerful, but not
that powerful.
