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Posted by targetemployee (Member # 217) on :

In "Bread and Circuses", the starship Enterprise scans the wreckage of the S.S. Beagle , a class 4 survey ship. In the wreckage, the scanners locate antimatter nacelles.

I have read opinions on the engineering of the original series. Could this bit of trivia help us to understand the nature of engineering in Kirk's era?

Further, the crew of the destroyed ship were attempting to locate iridium deposits. Apparently, they believed that iridium could help their ship. So, what is iridium and how it could be used in a spaceship?

Posted by Jack_Crusher (Member # 696) on :

Iridium, apparently when paired with either platinum or osmium, it is an extremely strong alloy. And apparently, the "antimatter nacelles" are the antimatter containment pods.

Posted by CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :

Iridium occurs rarely in Earth's makeup. Traces of extraterrestrial iridium in one layer of the crust's strata give scientists evidence to the theory that an extraterrestrial object struck the Earth and caused a massive cataclysm millions of years ago, since the only place such a large amount of iridium could originate would be off planet.

892-IV is a duplicate of Earth with historical differences, so it is likely that iridium is rare there too.

Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :

Perhaps the Beagle was looking for a downed network of communications satellites?

Posted by CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :

why do you say that?

Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Perhaps he is a former Motorola shareholder.

Posted by StyroFoam Man (Member # 706) on :

I get it! I get it! Ha Ha Ha....

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Now, prehaps the ship in question was an old converted Akiraprise?

(ducks and runs)

Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :

Another note on (pre-)TOS tech, the unnamed J class from "The Menagerie" had baffle-plates, which ruptured and caused Captain Pike ending up in a chair that can go beep.

All this aside, Trip gave a pretty TNGTM-like explanation in "Cold Front".

Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

The Antares had baffle plates, too. When they went away, the ship went blooie.

Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :

O'brien mentioned something about the baffle plates on the Santa Maria in that one DS9 ep, too, didn't he? ("Paradise", I think it was...)

-MMoM [Big Grin]

[ December 26, 2001: Message edited by: The Mighty Monkey of Mim ]