Star Trek Re-imagined

POSTED BY: AnonymousPost
UPDATED: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 13:32
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ANONYMOUSPOST

Thursday, October 25, 2007 2:13 PM

Scientists, in June of 2063, discovered the existence of the substrate within which our universe exists. A domain outside normal three-dimensional space, they named this place "subspace". They found that certain energetic reactions could create an intrusion of this domain into our own space, locally altering the behavior of all forms of matter and energy within our space-time. They called this intrusion a "subspace displacement field" or simply a "subspace field". With subspace being a continuum with different physical laws than our own, subspace fields had the capability of "warping" the space-time continuum. Subspace was also found to provide an additional electromagnetic polarization plane perpendicular to the planes in normal space which could be used for the transmission of particles. This led scientists all over the world to foresee the advent of faster than light communications.

While a doctoral physics student at California Institute of Technology in January of 2064, Ephram Cochrane studied the theories of physicist Miguel Alcubierre and first postulated that a spaceship could use subspace fields projected by a series of coils to warp the fabric of space and that ship could use the warp to propel it faster than light. This drive would work by contracting space-time in front of the ship and expanding space-time behind it. The starship itself would rests in a "warp bubble" between the two space-time distortions. This warped space, together with the region between it, would accelerate off faster than the speed of light and the vessel would then essentially "surf" on the wave in space-time created by this distortion.

Travel at velocities exceeding the speed of light would be possible in this fashion because the starship would be, strictly speaking, stationary (relative to the space of its warp bubble) while space-time itself would be moving. Since it is the space around a ship that would be moving and the starship would not actually be accelerating, it would experience no time dilation, allowing the passage of time inside the vessel to be the same as that outside it.

In February of 2066, interplanetary probes charting and surveying a variety of geological features on the solar system's outer planets discovered three new minerals, the first two were named "polysilicate verterium" and "monocrystal cortenum." The third was a new kind of shocked quartz with a lattice structure similar to lithium. It was found on Jupiter's fifth moon, Amalthea. This new substance was dubbed "dilithium," and samples were sent to the world's leading researchers to analyze it for potential benefits. Once on Earth, it was discovered that this new element possesses fourth-dimensional properties, it has the ability to "transtate" and focus energy. Bids flew in from the scientific community to get their hands on the unique new material. But it was Ephram Cochrane, working in seclusion at his Alabama reservation, who made the biggest breakthrough of all.

Dr. Cochrane began experimenting with the properties of dilithium, particularly after witnessing first hand initial experiments by a scientist named Igi Yamora at the University of Tokyo, that proved that dilithium had the ability to resist antimatter bombardment. In 2070, he finally found a way to power his continuum distortion propulsion, or "warp drive," as he had taken to calling it. In his private lab in an abandoned nuclear missile silo near Enterprise, Alabama, he came to the conclusion that the only power source known to humans that could power such a drive system was a reactor employing the controlled mixture of matter and antimatter. Such a reaction, when regulated by dilithium crystals, would create a high-energy plasma that fed directly into "warp coils" made of "verterium cortenide", which is a composite material composed of polysilicate verterium and monocrystal cortenum. When this material is energized, it would cause the energy frequencies in the plasma to shift into subspace, generating multilayered subspace fields Cochrane called "warp fields" that would form a "subs

JONGSSTRAW

Thursday, October 25, 2007 3:55 PM

Blast it Anony! I'm a doctor, not a term paper grader. Pretty amazing stuff you wrote.

GUYWHOWANTSAFIREFLYOFHISOWN

Thursday, October 25, 2007 4:17 PM

is it bad that I actually understood most of that?

Why is the rum always gone?

MISSTRESSAHARA

Friday, October 26, 2007 12:50 AM

So are you just here to post other shows and your own "scientific opinions? I haven't seen you write about Firefly. Imma thinkin' someone's going site to site and copapasting this stuff to see if he get's a nibble.

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VETERAN

Friday, October 26, 2007 1:35 AM

I like the explanation of warp drive (very similar to an article I read in Popular Science).

The time line seems off, about 100 years ahead of what I remember. Also you've lost some continuity. I'm pretty sure Captain Pike was Captain of the Enterprise before Kirk and Spock served as his third in command.

Frankly, I don't know why this stuff has to be redone. And if it is redone, why do you feel the need to change what already's been penned down? The Fans already have chronology we don't need another. Write something of your own. If you have to write about Trek pick something that hasn't been done. Why not write about the adventures of Captain Garth? or the USS Beagle? Maybe the Romulan Wars?

Note: revised after some research indicated that the Robert April was the first Capt. of the Enterprise.

ANONYMOUSPOST

Friday, October 26, 2007 2:21 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Veteran:
The time line seems off, about 100 years ahead of what I remember. Also you've lost some continuity. I'm pretty sure Captain Pike was Captain of the Enterprise before Kirk and Spock served as his third in command.

That's because it's a re-imagining. Just as the new Battlestar Galactica has significant background difference from the original...the re-imagining of Star Trek would have certain background difference from the original series.

VETERAN

Friday, October 26, 2007 3:23 AM

Why re-invent? Especially a show that became so popular? It's like stealing our memories. Go imagine something new.

IMNOTHERE

Friday, October 26, 2007 7:29 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Veteran:
Why re-invent?

Cos the suits think that if it worked once then it might work again. Which is sad - but its why we get all these movie remakes.

TRAVELER

Friday, October 26, 2007 11:36 PM

I read somewhere they are going to do a new Star Trek movie with Kirk, Spock, and Bones. But of course with new people playing the roles. This is criminal. Does the Pope know about this. Time to excommunicate some people.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

ANONYMOUSPOST

Saturday, October 27, 2007 5:44 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by traveler:
I read somewhere they are going to do a new Star Trek movie with Kirk, Spock, and Bones. But of course with new people playing the roles.

Here's the cast of the new Trek movie:

* James Kirk - Chris Pine
* Spock (young) - Zachary Quinto
* Dr. Leonard McCoy - Karl Urban
* Montgomery Scott - Simon Pegg
* Pavel Chekov - Anton Yelchin
* Uhura - Zoë Saldaña
* Hikaru Sulu - John Cho
* Nero (the film's villain) - Eric Bana
* Spock (older) - Leonard Nimoy

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