I performed several searches to see if these had been mentioned before, but found nothing. I have two DVD screencaps of the Enterprise engineering logs, one of which features the modifications made by La Forge off of the Galaxy Class baseline.
The first of these (chronologically the second) is easy enough to read. It appears to be a directory listing of the log files, along with one indication of what these people are really looking at when they're just sitting around the consoles.
Posted by Guardian 2000 (Member # 743) on :
The second is a bit more troublesome.
Dr. Brahms paraphrases some of the first line or two in the episode. I read it as follows, with lower-case x's marking unknown words and ++ marking a new line:
SUBSPACE PHASE COILS UPGRADED TO 55.xx MILLICOCHRANE FIELD DENSITY x x ++ INSTALLING HIGHER CAPACITY POWER SUPPLY TO PRIMARY PLASMA INJECTION ARRAY ON BOTH ++ WARP FIELD NACELLES. INITIAL TESTS INDICATE ADDITIONAL WASTE HEAT WITHIN ACCEPTABLE ++ TOLERANCES, ALTHOUGH COOLANT x x x x ABOVE WARP FACTOR x.2 ++ PER STARFLEET ENGINEERING DIRECTIVE (numbers). x OPERATIONAL x x x x ++ WERE INSTALLED TO PROVIDE x DATA ON ENGINE PERFORMANCE x x PHASE COIL ++ ALTHOUGH PERFORMANCE WAS WELL WITHIN EXPECTED TOLERANCES.
(End first paragraph. My eyes hurt. Anyone else wanna take a crack at it?)
(Man, I'm a geek. )
G2k
Posted by Peregrinus (Member # 504) on :
The second one hurts a little too much to tackle right now. What have you made of the first one? This is what I can see on my first pass:
USS ENTERPRISE ENGINEERING LOGS - FILE (5/S)(8/B)3874
02-00434 PROPULSION SYSTEMS OVERVIEW 02-00354 ANTIMATTER CONTAINMENT AND MAINTENANCE 02-00453 PROTOTYPE ENGINE SCHEMATIC 02-00233 ANTIMATTER PURGE-VENT PROCEDURES 02-00266 ANTIMATTER INJECTION SYSTEMS OPERATION 02-00432 DEUTERIUM/TRITIUM LOADING PROCEDURES 02-00234 IMPULSE FUSION REACTOR TIE-IN PROCEDURES 02-00843 SUBSPACE WARP FIELD OVERVIEW 02-00322 MAGNETIC CONTAINMENT FIELD [XXX] PROTOCOL 02-00326 BUSSARD COLLECTION FIELD OPERATIONS 02-00254 MODULATED PLASMA INJECTION [XXX] SUBSYS 02-00348 OPTICAL NANOPROCESSOR LINKS 02-02348 DILITHIUM CRYSTAL ARTICULATION FRAME OPS 02-04523 MATTER/ANTIMATTER REACTION ASSEMBLY 02-04529 ANTIMATTER SAFETY PROCEDURES 02-43944 HIGH-ENERGY PLASMA CONSTRICTION 02-06234 TONIGHT ON HBO
Two words I can't make out. Not bad -- and I'd love to see what's in those files...
--Jonah
Posted by Guardian 2000 (Member # 743) on :
The words you were looking for are "DEGAUSS" and "THROTTLE".
Posted by Guardian 2000 (Member # 743) on :
Additions:
quote:Originally posted by Guardian 2000: SUBSPACE PHASE COILS UPGRADED TO 55.xx MILLICOCHRANE FIELD DENSITY x BY ++ INSTALLING HIGHER CAPACITY POWER SUPPLY TO PRIMARY PLASMA INJECTION ARRAY ON BOTH ++ WARP FIELD NACELLES. INITIAL TESTS INDICATE ADDITIONAL WASTE HEAT WITHIN ACCEPTABLE ++ TOLERANCES, ALTHOUGH COOLANT (LOOPS?) x x (MAINTENANCE?) ABOVE WARP FACTOR (9?).2 ++ PER STARFLEET ENGINEERING DIRECTIVE (numbers). x OPERATIONAL x x x x ++ WERE INSTALLED TO PROVIDE x DATA ON ENGINE PERFORMANCE WITH MODIFIED PHASE COILS ++ ALTHOUGH PERFORMANCE WAS WELL WITHIN EXPECTED TOLERANCES.
PLASMA INDUCERS INTERLINKED WITH EPS GENERATOR TAPS TO PROVIDE BETTER EMERGENCY ++ x CAPABILITY IN THE EVENT OF EMERGENCY x. NEW INDUCERS x STARDATE ++ 44xxx.x INDICATE SOMEWHAT IMPROVED PERFORMANCE x x x ABILITY TO CONTROL ++ FLOW WITHIN THE INDUCTION COILS x. CHIEF ENGINEER LA FORGE RECOMMENDED THAT ++ INDUCER SOFTWARE BE UPGRADED TO PERMIT RANDOM ADJUSTMENT OF x x IN THE EVENT ++ OF FIELD HARMONICS . . .
That takes us to the third-to-last line of the second paragraph. My eyes hurt again. Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Um... Degaussing a magnetic containment field sounds like a bad idea...
Posted by Timo (Member # 245) on :
Well, these are the same guys who de-baryonize their hulls every now and then...
Why are they loading tritium? I thought their fusion was of the deuterium-deuterium type, and that they don't even have multiple or compartmentalized fuel tanks. Or can they perhaps fill up with anything from seawater to raw deuterium ore in an emergency, so that the deuterium/tritium loading procedure here is actually an either/or situation?
Timo Saloniemi
Posted by SoundEffect (Member # 926) on :
quote:Originally posted by Timo: Or can they perhaps fill up with anything from seawater to raw deuterium ore in an emergency, so that the deuterium/tritium loading procedure here is actually an either/or situation?
I don't know if you were being funny or if you actually looked it up, but the TNG Tech Manual does explicitly include seawater among the possible matter reactants. They also include things like planetary snows, cometary nucleii, etc.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Hmmm intruiging idea that may be a reason why the Breen bought Ferenginar's poles and several icy moons with the knowledge of FTL travel!?!
Maybe Breen doesn't have any oceans or water of any type?
Posted by Futurama Guy (Member # 968) on :
what on earth are you babbling about? Posted by Peregrinus (Member # 504) on :
He's babbling about using seawater as both fusion reactant and the "matter" part of the matter-antimatter reaction that powers the warp drive.
And Timo, I know the TNG TM gives Deuterium as the only reactant, but Rick later revised that to a Deuterium/Tritium mix.
--Jonah
Posted by Futurama Guy (Member # 968) on :
^Thank you, I gathered as much, unfortunately that is not what I was referring to....
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