: I tried to post this on my phone at lunchtime but lost the post due to
: entering the password wrong. DOH Phones!

: When I first saw TOS I thought that the nacelles were probably just
: "empty" flasks with low grade vacuums in them. I thought that
: the lights of the end caps were due to plasma as if they were vacuum tubes
: or neon lights.

: TOS was the show with: intelligent (plasma?) that was warp capable, could
: love you and keep you immortal. So why couldn't the warp nacelles be
: mostly empty space?

: I was disappointed by the plodding nature of the tech in the technical
: manuals. The tech just seemed so 20th Century. They use fusion RCS quads
: instead of frame dragging for attitude control. The impulse engines are
: just rockets instead of slapping space so hard that it slaps back. If you
: do it rapidly enough then you get thrust.

: And the warp fields are made by metal coils. Turns out that the insides of a
: warp nacelle look like the insides of a vacuum cleaner. To me, there's
: nothing futuristic about that.

: Even the nacelles on my blog have too much mechanism in them but that's
: because I wanted the cool look of vacuum tubes so I did a fairly literal
: take on them.

: I wrote a screed here explaining the model and the tech it uses but it's too
: much Trek for a Halo forum. So I've cut a couple of hours of typing :-(

: Oh well, off to bed, catch you guys on the flip side...

I mean, when you have scientists of the 20th century trying to imagine theoretically impossible tech in the 23rd, it's either going to be "well that doesn't sound futuristic" or "that doesn't seem possible at all" stuff :)