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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

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[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I thought peak performance looked like a police box…

[–] starik@lemmy.zip 11 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Not aerodynamic enough for space travel

[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 10 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

Does warp speed require an aerodynamic hull?

Not an aerodynamic hull, per se. Just a hull that allowed for an efficient warp bubble to be created and maintained.

[–] NachBarcelona@piefed.social 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 16 points 9 hours ago (2 children)
[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago

The Borg got it right. Right angles are easier to build, and expand on. There's no need for aerodynamics in space.

Really, though, the most likely outcome is something like this:

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 4 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Borg cubes also technically utilize a different warp technology than Starfleet vessels. Not to say the Starfleet warp tech requires an aerodynamic hull.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

According to the TNG tech manual, the smooth curves of the ship makes it easier to maintain a warp field in a shape that uses less power while traveling at warp. So, not aerodynamic, but voidynamic, or something.

[–] negativenull@piefed.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Bubbledynamic?

[–] Repelle@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Subspacodynamic?

Iirc borg have transwarp as well as backup warp capability. And as to “how it works”: I was under the impression that, regardless of the type of warp reactor (federation dilithium/antimatter, Romulan microsingularity, whatever the borg use, etc) the main important output is a shitload of energy, and the thing generating the energy is largely irrelevant - all that matters is that an Alcubierre effect is generated, and serves as superluminal motive force.

[–] teft@piefed.social 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Probably not. There have been a few times where someone has been outside the hull but inside the warp field and they didn't get blown off.

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 8 points 8 hours ago

That would be a weird place to receive oral sex.

[–] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago

Plus little sheet metal feet that flip down, like a lawn chair