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Posted by Pwesty (Member # 1035) on :

Hi Guys
I was just wondering just how dead the Defiant really was in Friday show. I though that T'Pol said that all major system where off line or something like that. Also what did Tucker do to jump start Defiant so fast, I thought it took 30 minutes to restart a cold engine.
Thanks

Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

OK, you know, rather than taking their advice literally, you could just have posted your question in the existing Tech thread. . .

Posted by Pwesty (Member # 1035) on :

Sorry.

Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

Aww, never mind, don't take it to heart. Here, have a biscuit. 8)

Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

Well - did they go to warp - I thought it was the Warp engines that needed 30 minutes to start up from cold. Maybe they improved this feature after the near disaster at Psi 2000?

Posted by Dat (Member # 302) on :

They had not gone to warp yet by the end of the episode. They hadn't even moved the ship yet.

Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

Exactly, they hadn't gone to warp - so they whole thing i'm saying is - in The Naked Time - I thought the cold start was a cold start of the warp engines.

Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :

I'm willing to lay bets that they will ignore this 30-minute rule and immediately start kicking ass. I seriously doubt that they'll wait around to power up the engines while there are Tholians picking off the escape pods and lizards crawling around the lower decks.

Mark

Posted by Dat (Member # 302) on :

Maybe, all they will do is to start impulse engines to start fighting while waiting for the warp engines to start up. Either that or Mirror Trip will figure out a way to start them up quicker.

Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :

Well, to be fair, we never actually saw a ship needing so much time to get out of a spacedock, right?

Posted by HerbShrump (Member # 1230) on :

Pre-refit Constitution Class Starships did not channel warp power to the phasers. So the Defiant can start fighting without the warp core being online.

But I suspect the writers will forget about the 30-minute cold start.

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

They already did for "Divergence," when Trip shut down the NX-01's engines completely and restarted them in what was more like 30 seconds. [Roll Eyes]

Posted by Dat (Member # 302) on :

But it wasn't a cold shutdown. It was more of a reboot type of thing than from a cold startup.

Posted by Pwesty (Member # 1035) on :

Hi Guys

Did anybody else notice the airlock tube thingy on the right side of the ship as it was sitting in the space dock?

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

quote:
Originally posted by Dat:
But it wasn't a cold shutdown. It was more of a reboot type of thing than from a cold startup.

Trip actually called it a "cold start" in the dialogue.

-MMoM [Big Grin]

Posted by Dat (Member # 302) on :

Yet, the engine really could not cool down that quickly for it to really be a cold start.

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

But is it really temperature being dealt with here? I rather thought that "cold start" was just an expression meaning starting the engines after they had been completely shut down...

Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :

Didn't it have something to do with intermix formulas? Perhaps Kirk's ship really went completely blank, and lost all settings and calibration data. Similar to how my car cant run stationary when the battery has been dead. I have to run the engine for 15 minutes to re-calibrate the onboard computer thingy. If Spock was my science officer, he'd probably program the computer manually.