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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Irishman: [QB] As a lot of Trek tech is getting old and stale, one might imagine that the Trek-universe scientists are getting as bored by it as we geeks are. It got me to thinking about technical advancements that we could imagine livening up future incarnations of Trek in film and tv particularly. Here are some I thought of: 1. High-efficiency replicators - this basically means that, with a low enough energy requirement, you could replicate starships or space stations or similar structures such as the Sovereign-class in a matter of hours instead of years in a drydock. What would be the most immediate result of this? Cheaper, more widespread access to more advanced craft and technology by civilians throughout the galaxy. Space would fill up rapidly. Yet, there is a more significant result I can foresee, taking into account the human desire to do things bigger and better. Why just take hours to replicate an existing ship (saving years in construction time) when you can use the same technology to build a ship 100 times its size and complexity taking the same time to replicate as the 1/100th size ship did to manufacture the old way. Talk about an intimidation factor against foes like the Borg, Species 8472, the Romulans, and the Dominion. 2. Instantaneous short-range transporters - These much-larger vessels (30,000 meters long +) would not be practically traversed from stem to stern via corridors and turbolifts. To cross those huge distances, transporters would be used. Beaming from the bridge to engineering would become a common, workaday part of the job. All this beaming around calls for a dedicated m/ara, separate from the two powering the warp nacelles and the 2 providing general power to the ship. 3. Trans-trans-warp drive - The galaxy is becoming too small a stage for Trek, or at least it's being presented that way. They've got to wow the audience. Take us someplace noone has ever imagined before. Take us to Andromeda, or another member of the Local Group. It's about time. Make the galaxy as busy as the SW galaxy. Make the core so bustling and sprawled that Deep Space Nine is now a suburb. Put it 1000 years into the future if you have to. Just surprise us with what we haven't really imagined. Make it real, but make it optimistic. Any ideas? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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