I'd argue there isn't "a" lore of Star Trek. I was given the ST:TNG technical manual a while back, which is nominally derived from the show's bible, and while i

I'd argue there isn't "a" lore of Star Trek. I was given the ST:TNG technical manual a while back, which is nominally derived from the show's bible, and while interesting and amusing in its own way, its correspondence with the show itself is... loose. Not zero by any means, but loose. Some things it claims can do things we never, ever see in the show (hand phasers are spec'd out a great deal more powerful than "usually throw some sparks, occasionally vaporize a person", ship weapons are spec'd to work at a great deal longer than the point-blank range we almost always see), some limits it claims exist are broken fairly routinely (I think it wasn't until Voyager that you got a serious attempt at spec'ing a ship's speed in terms that match the show, and even they were still fuzzy on the implications at times). And the show's own correspondence with itself is also quite loose. Honestly, people's fuzzy ideas about how warp drives work are probably pretty accurate because I don't think there's a lot of reason to believe that the show in general had anything other than an equally fuzzy idea. Specific writers for specific episodes may have, but I wouldn't say there was "a" lore to argue so firmly about.