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A quick question...
Posted: 2005-01-18 02:36pm
by JeanLucPicard
what exactly is hyperdrive? is it similar to warp drive?
*i might be necroing an old thread here, but who wants to go through 60+ pages of old stuff?* *yes, I'm lazy*
Posted: 2005-01-18 02:42pm
by SPOOFE
Exactly? I dunno. A magical Go-Fast thingy. It dumps a ship into a sub-realm of reality where you can exceed the speed of light.
Similar to warp drive? Yeah, in that both allow superluminal travel and are totally bogus, made-up sci-fi tech.
Posted: 2005-01-18 02:48pm
by Tribun
Dr. Curtis Saxton did write a good article on it:
Dr. Saxtons Hyperspace page
Posted: 2005-01-18 04:08pm
by Gustav32Vasa
SPOOFE wrote:Exactly? I dunno. A magical Go-Fast thingy. It dumps a ship into a sub-realm of reality where you can exceed the speed of light.
Similar to warp drive? Yeah, in that both allow superluminal travel and are totally bogus, made-up sci-fi tech.
Warp, made up?
Posted: 2005-01-18 06:57pm
by phongn
The Alcubierre warp drive has virtually no relationship to the ST warp drive.
Posted: 2005-01-18 07:01pm
by Gustav32Vasa
phongn wrote:The Alcubierre warp drive has virtually no relationship to the ST warp drive.
What? Why do you think that. Both warp space to be able to "surf" on spacetime.
Posted: 2005-01-18 07:11pm
by phongn
Look at the operating mechanics behind either warp drive, for one. They are not remotely similar.
Posted: 2005-01-18 07:16pm
by Gustav32Vasa
phongn wrote:Look at the operating mechanics behind either warp drive, for one. They are not remotely similar.
Thats true but they look to be based on the same idea.
Posted: 2005-01-18 07:36pm
by andrewgpaul
Looking at the date on that abstract, it's obvious the ST warp-drive is not the Alcubierre drive. Also, I may be mistaken, but I always figured ST warp was an alternate-universe drive - the ship moves in subspace, not 'realspace'.
Posted: 2005-01-19 10:27am
by Sarevok
I heard in Star Trek a portion of a starships mass is submerged in subspace and then is accelerarated to FTL, the rest of the mass is dragged along. Not exactly like the alcuibree warp drive.
Posted: 2005-01-19 12:07pm
by Gustav32Vasa
The Shadow wrote:I heard in Star Trek a portion of a starships mass is submerged in subspace and then is accelerarated to FTL, the rest of the mass is dragged along. Not exactly like the alcuibree warp drive.
Which episode is that from?
Posted: 2005-01-21 03:39am
by Sarevok
Gustav32Vasa wrote:The Shadow wrote:I heard in Star Trek a portion of a starships mass is submerged in subspace and then is accelerarated to FTL, the rest of the mass is dragged along. Not exactly like the alcuibree warp drive.
Which episode is that from?
Not episode, I read in a fan site theorizing how a warp drive in trek might work. So it is not offical or canon, just pure speculation.