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The entirety of Star Trek revolves around using deuterium-antideuterium annihilation as an energy source. They use those reactors for two things that are essent
by redwall_hp 6y ago
The entirety of Star Trek revolves around using deuterium-antideuterium annihilation as an energy source. They use those reactors for two things that are essential to the ST setting: warp drive and matter replicators. Both require an astounding amount of energy, made possible by the matter-antimatter reactors, and both address the twin issues of faster-than-light travel and post-scarcity society.
The "warp core" on a ship is just the power plant. The nacelles under the saucer house the "field coil" machinery that generates a warp field.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Warp_drive https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Warp_drive
- dreamcompiler 6y agoExcept for Star Trek Discovery where the energy source is...mold.
- lovegoblin 6y agoNo, the fungi give them access to the subspace mycelial network which they can navigate/transverse in order execute what is basically galactic-scale teleportation. Yes, this is gobbledygook. But no moreso than regular "subspace" or anything else in Trek. For power (ed: including their standard warp drive), the Discovery still has a plain old M/AM reactor. And yes, I did just use the phrase "plain old M/AM reactor" hah
- maxcan 6y agoAm I the only one who appreciates that a show with the acronym STD is all about space fungus?
- lovegoblin 6y agoEh, but in practice the only people who use STD rather than DSC are people who don't like it and go out of their way to shit on those who do. So using "STD" has turned into kind of a unsavory gatekeepy dogwhistle. It tends to bring out the worst types of stereotypical toxic fandom. /r/DaystromInstitute even automod-bans it for that reason.