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Subspace, Real Space, Warp Bubbles and a proposal as to how *Star Trek* Warp Drive might work

In this post I’ll be proposing a model to understanding how Star Trek warp drive works. In doing so, I’ll be attempting to reconcile the way the TNG Technical Manual describes warp drive with the idea that warp drive somehow takes advantages of shortcuts through real space by warping space around the craft, yet still...

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There are any number of shuttles lacking warp drive capability that have impulse drives. It seems clear that they need not be interlinked systems. Also, impulse drives still function when a warp core has been jettisoned.

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Yes, ‘blank-Fu’ has been used since the 70s, but as a long time fan of both Trek and HK action films, I can’t say that what Shatner was doing in TOS was referred to in that way until recently.

Is it really so controversial to say 1) Kirk Fu became current in the fandom since the book was published; & 2) the meme is a clear lift from a published work and the drawings its artist Christian Cornia, they deserve credit?

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Shari, Lois & Bram were almost as riveting to young kids as Raffi.

And yes, the songs were intentional nonsense.

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I’m sure Bruce Horak would love it.

Unfortunately he’s not in the fediverse as yet to my knowledge.

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If you don’t have the SNW boots from John Fluevog, suggest getting a pair.

They’ve also just released a ‘Cadet’ low cut version which may be great cosplay even if they don’t show up eventually onscreen. Preorders closed in September, but one expects them to be on sale once they’ve been released to stores.

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Fluevogs are very well made and last for years. Definitely worth it from a quality/price perspective.

Depending on where you live in North America, there’s likely a John Fluevog location where you can try them on before buying.

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Dressing is the regional term in many parts of Canada. Sounds like the same may exist in parts of the United States.

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Ogawa was initially a nurse on TNG but decided to become a physician and medical officer.

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TNG and all the 90s shows finessed their way around the date of the Eugenics War.

The writers at the time (e.g., Moore & Braga) would rationalize in response to fan questions that the Eugenics War was going on but we just weren’t aware. Or something. But they assiduously avoided dealing with the issue onscreen despite trying to write around other inconsistencies like Klingon foreheads.

So, it was left to SNW’s Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow to spell it all out, including moving Khan’s birth back by decades. It’s worth putting a priority on seeing that episode just for that clarity.

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Wow, definitely different school learning protocol here.

Our kids were fussing at me to close my tabs as I go by the time they hit middle school, and when they were younger we had a ‘clear tabs automatically on closing’ set up in their browsers.

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As others have said this isn’t the infinitely expanding manifold time of DC or MCU (pre Loki season 2).

SNW season two confirmed what we could infer from the premier of TNG when the date of WW3 had shifted back decades. It also happens to line up better with the understandings of modern physics.

The Prime Timeline in Star Trek is a resilient enormous river. It can be shifted a bit in its course, slip forwards and back.

BUT major events remain largely unchanged

  • those changes that aren’t large enough to create a major fork shift to a very different future as in TOS City at the Edge of Forever

OR

  • it takes an event of the order of the Romulan Supernova to create a new branch universe (Kelvin U).
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But you missed Alison Pill!

Our very own very nice Canadian Borg Queen.

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With Spock as a child with his selát - yes that’s it. It got a lot of praise from child development experts and parents for dealing with the difficult topic of a pet’s death. It was a children’s show first.

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Unless of course, the earworm is native to Ceti-Alpha.

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