Here's a nice blog post by a scientist giving a bit more quantitative discussion of why this proposal doesn't seem plausible: http://excursionset.com/blog/2013/

Here's a nice blog post by a scientist giving a bit more quantitative discussion of why this proposal doesn't seem plausible: http://excursionset.com/blog/2013/7/23/dump-the-warp-core http://excursionset.com/blog/2013/7/23/dump-the-warp-core