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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lee: [QB] [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:[/qb][/QUOTE]Right from the start you're operating under a false premise: that the tech shown in the films and TV has anything to do with declining ratings and receipts. There was plenty of new tech introduced in [i]Voyager[/i] but it didn't do anything for the show. And [i]Enterprise's[/i] troubles have nothing to do with the fact they haven't any replicators at all. [QUOTE][qb]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.[/qb][/QUOTE]So basically you want to see lots more ships? *BEEP BEEP BEEP* Damn! I must remember to switch off my fanboy alarm before I come anywhere near this particular Forum. . . The ease of making ships or how many there are has nothing to do with Trek's problems either. And where's the thrill factor in knowing the goodies can just make more ships whenever they need them? [QUOTE][qb]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.[/qb][/QUOTE]Do your research. They once considered putting a transporter pad directly on the bridge but decided against it because the walk to the transporter room gave time for character interaction & exposition. And so do all the other corridors. By your logic they needn't show any ships at all, just show them on whatever planet they're going to. It's not the destination that's important in the great journey that is Trek, it's how they get there. Think how much they used the pad in Ops on DS9 - not a lot, hmm? [QUOTE][qb]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.[/qb][/QUOTE]Again, you had seven years with a ship farther away than any had been before. TOS and TNG and DS9 still managed to elicit plenty of drama from discovering new life and new civilisations that weren't that far from home. Space is big and there's plenty more to be found where you least expect it. You might be better off watching [i]Stargate: Atlantis[/i] if all you're interested in is how many miles they put on the odometer each week! [/QB][/QUOTE]
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