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Posted by Austin Powers (Member # 250) on :

I've just received the latest issue of the Fact Files in Germany (136). File 29 Card 19 shows Voyager's bridge MSD with highlighted turbolift shafts.
I don't know whether or not this has been discussed before but in this diagram Voyager appears to have two Warp cores!
One to the left of the Engineering section main computer core, the other to the right - right where it would seem to be in the show.

Any thoughts on this subject?

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Posted by Dat (Member # 302) on :

It's been discussed many times already. Anyway, I'm not sure if the second core is canon or not, but there is a second core ejection port for a second core on the model and the CGI. Though the Voyager MSD on the bridge does not show a second core.

And the aft core (one to the left of the computer core assuming diagram is starboard view) is the main core.

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Yes, it's canon, at least in the sense that is was indeed designed as a second warp core and that yes it really is on the MSD. Sternbach, who having designed the thing should know, has said that it isn't intended to be an already installed backup, but rather a complete set of parts, so that a new one might be built if the old one is lost.

So why, you might ask, haven't they used it? Well, according to some speculation, (namely from the multitalented Timo, IIRC) they have. Parts from the secondary core may have been used to replace broken ones on the primary, meaning that Voyager no longer has a complete spare core.

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

Didn't the warp-core 'colour' or 'effect' change after season 1 or 2?? Maybe that THIS is the second warp core.

Andrew

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Posted by Black Knight (Member # 134) on :

NO, in a recent issue of Star Trek The Magazine, Rick Sternbach said that the second warp core was not 'plug-and-play', but was used for spare parts only.

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Posted by Individual 5748 on :

But I do know what you're referring to, AndrewR

Early on, Voyager's core was pinkish, I believe, with purple patches or something. In more recent years, it's blue. I noticed the change around the episode "Resistance." Perhaps this is a suggestion that the core isn't 100% to par anymore?

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Posted by Black Knight (Member # 134) on :

Either that, or they though a pink warp core looked stupid, and the producers told them to change it to make it look more cool.

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Posted by Individual 5748 on :

I actually thought it looked... unique. I like blue better, but I could have tolerated the pink. I thought it was appropraite given Voyager's then-unique ability to not damage the space-time continuum. Oh well!

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Posted by Teelie (Member # 280) on :

Maybe one of those spare parts used changed the color?
Only real guess I have.

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Posted by Michael Dracon (Member # 4) on :

Maybe the standard fuel materials are slightly different (less pure) in the Delta Quadrant. Or they may even use different materials all together.

BTW: I believe there was an episode dealing with very stable dilithium.

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Posted by Alpha Centauri (Member # 338) on :

That ep was "Threshold". They discovered 'transdilithium', being able to remain stable at higher 'warp frequencies' (talking about techobabble...). This was used in the Shuttle Cochrane's transwarp drive.

The pink/blue question:
Another possibility is that the change in color is caused by any modifications to the warp core by Voy's crew. But we'll never know for sure, unless it is explained on-screen or by Sternbach.

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