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I performed several searches to see if these had been mentioned before, but found nothing. I have two DVD screencaps of the Enterprise engineering logs, one of which features the modifications made by La Forge off of the Galaxy Class baseline.
The first of these (chronologically the second) is easy enough to read. It appears to be a directory listing of the log files, along with one indication of what these people are really looking at when they're just sitting around the consoles.
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Dr. Brahms paraphrases some of the first line or two in the episode. I read it as follows, with lower-case x's marking unknown words and ++ marking a new line:
SUBSPACE PHASE COILS UPGRADED TO 55.xx MILLICOCHRANE FIELD DENSITY x x ++ INSTALLING HIGHER CAPACITY POWER SUPPLY TO PRIMARY PLASMA INJECTION ARRAY ON BOTH ++ WARP FIELD NACELLES. INITIAL TESTS INDICATE ADDITIONAL WASTE HEAT WITHIN ACCEPTABLE ++ TOLERANCES, ALTHOUGH COOLANT x x x x ABOVE WARP FACTOR x.2 ++ PER STARFLEET ENGINEERING DIRECTIVE (numbers). x OPERATIONAL x x x x ++ WERE INSTALLED TO PROVIDE x DATA ON ENGINE PERFORMANCE x x PHASE COIL ++ ALTHOUGH PERFORMANCE WAS WELL WITHIN EXPECTED TOLERANCES.
(End first paragraph. My eyes hurt. Anyone else wanna take a crack at it?)
(Man, I'm a geek. )
G2k
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quote:Originally posted by Guardian 2000: SUBSPACE PHASE COILS UPGRADED TO 55.xx MILLICOCHRANE FIELD DENSITY x BY ++ INSTALLING HIGHER CAPACITY POWER SUPPLY TO PRIMARY PLASMA INJECTION ARRAY ON BOTH ++ WARP FIELD NACELLES. INITIAL TESTS INDICATE ADDITIONAL WASTE HEAT WITHIN ACCEPTABLE ++ TOLERANCES, ALTHOUGH COOLANT (LOOPS?) x x (MAINTENANCE?) ABOVE WARP FACTOR (9?).2 ++ PER STARFLEET ENGINEERING DIRECTIVE (numbers). x OPERATIONAL x x x x ++ WERE INSTALLED TO PROVIDE x DATA ON ENGINE PERFORMANCE WITH MODIFIED PHASE COILS ++ ALTHOUGH PERFORMANCE WAS WELL WITHIN EXPECTED TOLERANCES.
PLASMA INDUCERS INTERLINKED WITH EPS GENERATOR TAPS TO PROVIDE BETTER EMERGENCY ++ x CAPABILITY IN THE EVENT OF EMERGENCY x. NEW INDUCERS x STARDATE ++ 44xxx.x INDICATE SOMEWHAT IMPROVED PERFORMANCE x x x ABILITY TO CONTROL ++ FLOW WITHIN THE INDUCTION COILS x. CHIEF ENGINEER LA FORGE RECOMMENDED THAT ++ INDUCER SOFTWARE BE UPGRADED TO PERMIT RANDOM ADJUSTMENT OF x x IN THE EVENT ++ OF FIELD HARMONICS . . .
That takes us to the third-to-last line of the second paragraph. My eyes hurt again.
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Well, these are the same guys who de-baryonize their hulls every now and then...
Why are they loading tritium? I thought their fusion was of the deuterium-deuterium type, and that they don't even have multiple or compartmentalized fuel tanks. Or can they perhaps fill up with anything from seawater to raw deuterium ore in an emergency, so that the deuterium/tritium loading procedure here is actually an either/or situation?
quote:Originally posted by Timo: Or can they perhaps fill up with anything from seawater to raw deuterium ore in an emergency, so that the deuterium/tritium loading procedure here is actually an either/or situation?
I don't know if you were being funny or if you actually looked it up, but the TNG Tech Manual does explicitly include seawater among the possible matter reactants. They also include things like planetary snows, cometary nucleii, etc.
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