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Wasn't there a ship in "The Ultimate Computer" that had her impulse drive taken out and Spock said she was still maneuvering on warp drive alone?
For what its worth, Ent should be using fusion reactors exclusively and kept it simple
quote:Originally posted by MrNeutron: Impulse (in physics) The product of a force and the time for which it acts.
The measure of a rocket motor's performance is its specific impulse.
I don't know every instance where impulse power was used in the endless list of Trek technobabble, but logically it wouldn't make sense to use the terms interchangeably. Impulse engines might be fusion powered but fusion power doesn't have to be used for impulse. However, this isn't to say that a specific ship's warp drive might not be dependent on elements of the impulse engines. For instance, if the fusion reactors of the impulse deck are necessary to power the particle accelerators on the warp core, someone could by way of shorthand say the impulse engines can't take the strain of running the ship at warp, since it's a key component of said engine that's the limiting factor.
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Either way... it's possible for a ship to use the warp drive to move at impulse speeds. I'm not certain on the effects temporally though. However, it would work just like normal. A warp 1 field is 1 cochrane and assymetrically shaped. It's the assymetrical shpae that makes the field propulsive, not the field strength. It is possible, that a field of lower strength still has to power to move a ship... maybe at 999 millicochranes and below the accelleration factor sucks but that's the only thing I can think of besides extra wear and tear.
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Well, the implication was that the Ent's new engines caused the wormhole. I don't know why they put untested engines on an operational ship, though.
[ April 27, 2004, 08:35 AM: Message edited by: Harry ]
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The engines where untested, because they hadn't been fine-tuned yet. The ship was rushed into service, before it was finished. When making TMP, they wanted the cargo deck/shuttle bay to look unfinished, to help reinforce teh feeling that the ship was being rushed into service only 90% done.
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Which is what I got... the thing that created the wormhole is that the ship hadn't been tuned yet--- the firing sequences got screwed up and a subspace wormhole formed.
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I wonder what that implies abut how normal warp travel works?
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I beleive Sternbach has mentioned the concept of sublight incremental warp factors for some ships or races, possibly including some Fed ships. This COULD theorhetically help explain away some poor modelling or behind-the-scenes design choices, like the Nebula class.
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