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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Siegfried: [QB] Thanks to something Liam posted in another thread, I just thought of another possible continuity error. However, this one is a bit more tricky to work around. In "Where No Man Has Gone Before," we're told that the Enterprise's power systems run on lithium. It was this way until an episode or two later when it was switched to dilithium (mainly to avoid scientific accuracy problems). Now then the implication from the show (with backing from the Chronology and Encyclopediae) is that the Enterprise underwent an upgrade early in the show. The nacelles changed, the sensor dish changed, et cetra. The ship then seemed to be a bit more powerful later than in WNMHGB. So. The Enterprise (NX-01) is likely going to be using dilithium-based systems. The Enterprise (NCC-1701) will originally use a lithium-based system then switch over to dilithium. Herein lies the dilemma. We have a case where we go dilithium --> lithium --> dilithium again. This is bit harder to explain. Lithium could have been an experiment in new power technologies, but then the Enterprise shouldn't have been able to find a lithium cracking station so quickly. And if NX-01 shows the advantages of dilithium, why would the NCC-1701 (a more advanced ship and the seeming workhouse of the 23rd century fleet) use a more primitive system? The obvious answer (as Liam mentioned in the other thread) is that we ignore the lithium comments. However, this isn't going to be so easy since it was an important plot point in WNMHGB, the change in the NCC-1701 model, and the references in the Chronology and Encyclopediae. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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