A New "NX-2000 Transwarp" Theory!

[majormagna]

Okay, this is basically just a Copy & Paste from a post debating the topc on the Excalibur forums; I just had inspiration...

Using the information on Memory Alpha, this is pretty much as I expected and found the TNG and TOS warp scales to look like.

 (Note this is a cheap graph I made online.)

My theory on Warp Factors and Transwarp (Excelsior style) is that a Warp Value is equal to a certain amount of energy exerted on the dilithium crystals (Or mass of matter + Antimatter being used) And this corrolation does not change between TOS and TNG, it is how the result energy is handled that accounts for the speed change. The USS Excelsior was an experiment into more efficient usage of the post-warpcore energy; it obviously yielded positive results, but may have been too complex to mass produce in the era, as well at refit all the ships in service.

 By the year of 2293 (The Undiscovered Country), when a large number of Starfleet vessels were retired/mothballed due to a cease of hostilities with the Klingon Empire, it was more viable to refit the remaining number of ships (Which would be quite few) with the new drive systems, due to less resources being used in defense and a re-focus towards exploration; as well as a possible advancement in engineering/production technology.

*Takes a deep breath*

Thoughts?

[TheConstable6]

Beats the idea the Feds could've built 25th century tech in the 23rd.

[majormagna]

I just work on the assumption that the NX-2000's 'Transwarp' is simply a new way of utilising standard warp technology, which results in a faster speed, rather than infinite speed or "A series of tubes".

[ACES_HIGH]

that's pretty much the theory I've accepted for it.  It's an early prototype of the kind of warp drives used in TNG

[086gf]

Yep, thats what I go with too.

[bankruptstudios]

In an early TOS showm they went warp Factor 13, witch would probly be warp 9 in TNG. Same as in All good things, they were going warp 13 everywhere. So by that time, a new warp system may have been installed to refine there speed, so there warp 13 may have been TNG's 9.95.

[ECGadget]

S= W^(3)c according to old scale
S= W^(10/3)c according to new scale

S= speed in Miles per Second
W= Time Warp Factor
c= Speed of Light in mps (186,282.397)
 

I believe that was my calculations for warp... New Scale was TNG and Post TNG

[flarespire]

wow if we keep thinking like this we could actually achieve warp drive in the next 50 years or so......wonder how that woudl affect us*reference to first contact XD* so the only things we would have to find is dilithium crystals, suitable casing for the core and injectors, matter and antimatter....hmm....mining expedition much?

[ECGadget]

well, like Kirk said... back in his day it was standard Lithium... and we got that... xD

[flarespire]

  then what are you all waiting for LETS GET BUILDING lol

[ECGadget]

Don't push me to it... I've gone to lengths to prove warp theory and work out the equations with an Astrophysicist at college... we've tried... the power needed is just phenomenal xD

[flarespire]

havent you tried using the kinetic energy from say the warp ships launch to turn som turbines in the ship to generate the power needed for warp? if that works then...well....the human race is space worthy...

[flarespire]

or just use 2000 uranium rods in a MASSIVE built in reactor to power the core.....

[ECGadget]

Well, on the basis of E=mc^2, as velocity increases, the energy required for it k.e=1/2mv^2 increased fourfold. k.e(1) would therefore be only 1/4 of the energy required to propel the ship to FTL speeds. Its the cochrane delta all over again...

[ECGadget]

Yeah... black holes are a bit of a problem...

[flarespire]

i did a little research and we need to be able to generate a counter gravitational feild to equalise the power distribution, that way there is more power available to create a low warp field to take us to a max of warp 2.5764423.   

[deadthunder2_0]

you know that Cochranes warp ship used 1 nuclear reacter

[ECGadget]

hmmmm... Shopping List:

1x Nuclear Reactor
6x Lithium Crystals
1x Ship capable of withstanding the stress
1x Simon Pegg
1x Black Hole
and to counter it
1x White Hole (If you don't get it, look it up)

[Villain]

I can't tell if this thread is being serious anymore... 

[Kirk]