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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Daniel: [QB] lithium cracking station: Mineral-processing facility used to produce lithium crystals, a critical element of early warp-drive technology. One such facility was the automated station on planet Delta Vega, visited by the Enterprise in 2265. ("Where No Man Has Gone Before" [TOS]). lithium crystals: The lightest metal on the periodic table of elements, with an atomic number of 3 and an atomic weight of 6.941. Lithium in a form resembling crystalline quartz was a critical component of warp-drive systems in early starships. Lithium suitable for such use was an extremely rare and valuable commodity, requiring an energy-intensive "cracking" process. ("Where No Man Has Gone Before" [TOS]). Starships were rarely able to carry many spare crystals, meaning that damage or burnout of a ship's crystals was a serious problem. ("Mudd's Women" [TOS]). Note at end of entry: Lithium crystals were used in the Enterprise's engines during the first few episodes of the Original Series. At the suggestion of scientific advisor Harvey Lynn, lithium was later changed to dilithium because lithium is a real element with known properties, while the imaginary dilithium could be endowed by Star Trek's writers with extraordinary qualities not yet known to science, making warp drive possible in the Star Trek universe. Tell me again that the Encyclopedia doesn't specify their use in the warp-drive system. I assume it was used to regulate M/AM reactions because after dilithium was introduced, we never hear of this lithium compound again. If it were a "critical component" of the warp drive and did something besides regualte the M/AM reactions, then we would have seen it even after dilithium was introduced. I believe that this lithium in crystalline form was used before they discovered dilithium. After dilithium's discovery, they found it regulated M/AM reactions better than the lithium compound and used it instead. Recarding the AM issue. Has anyone thought of the fact that maybe by this point in the Star Trek universe, they had invented a way to mass-produce antimatter? Manybe it was made in large quantities for the war in highly secure locations, and there were stores of antimatter held in magnetic containment. The systems would have to be maintained out of the fact that if they were not, the world would be blown to pieces. Cochrane could have dipped into this supply. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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