Side topic: Star Trek's Federation starships feature a Bussard collector [1] at the front of the engine nacelles. It's frankly fun that the writers managed to k

Side topic: Star Trek's Federation starships feature a Bussard collector [1] at the front of the engine nacelles. It's frankly fun that the writers managed to keep touch points back to actual science to rationalize their design choices. There's some great writing about the logic behind the first design of the Enterprise from the original series here. [2] [1] https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bussard_collector https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bussard_collector [2] https://forgottentrek.com/designing-the-first-enterprise/ https://forgottentrek.com/designing-the-first-enterprise/