USS Excalibur

[Teaos]

Well to be fair the ship Scotty ran was a lot less complicated and powerful.

[KuvahMagh]

Well to be fair the ship Scotty ran was a lot less complicated and powerful.

Yeah but these new Engineers are getting lazy... how many times did Scotty Reverse the Polarity of something, I really don't remember him doing it once... now a days its the cure all... pure laziness...

[Mark]

True....these days engineers juggle a few isoliniar chips, or just punch a few keys. Scotty was crawling around tubes inches away from open energy conduits almost getting electircuted, running from place to place, fighting off intruders in engineering with his crew, and still found time to run the transporter.

Who else had such a busy day?

[Sionnach Glic]

The fact that TOS era stuff was designed somewhat competantly also helped.

[Mikey]

The fact that in TNG+ that you could fix a nacelle by switching some chips about 150m away may be related to the fact that a pebble hitting the shuttlebay door makes a console on the bridge explode.

[Sionnach Glic]

Apparently they haven't heard of "surge protectors" either.

[Sonic Glitch]

Also, to be fair in TOS they didn't have the budget to blow up the ship every other week. Also, did we ever actually *see* the warp core?

[Graham Kennedy]

Also, to be fair in TOS they didn't have the budget to blow up the ship every other week. Also, did we ever actually *see* the warp core?

The big thing on the floor in engineering had the dilithium crystals in it. Presumably that was the core.

[Mark]

They just don't build'em like they used to. Remember, Enterprise took a hit from Nomad equiling the force of 90 photon torpedos (something like that?) and it's didn't even knock their transporter offline.

This kind of construction, as opposed to the new fangled "pebble hitting the shuttlebay and a console blows up" and blowing up completely at least once a season, makes me wonder if it wouldn't have been safer to put kids on the Connie Enterprise.

OH GOD!!! VISION IN MY HEAD!!! MAKE IT GO AWAY!!!

:::Weasly at the helm of the Enterprise. Sulu standing over his shoulder, supervising, while inviting him to try fencing with him later::: "Don't worry Wes, I'll make sure you get the thrust of it"

[Mikey]

"pebble hitting the shuttlebay and a console blows up"

Hey! I coined a phrase!

"Don't worry Wes, I'll make sure you get the thrust of it"

Wow. Beat Tsukiyumi to it.

[Mark]

I figure a little compatition is healthy, right ?

[Sionnach Glic]

Wow, someone had challenged Tsu for the crown of innuendo.

[Sonic Glitch]

Also, to be fair in TOS they didn't have the budget to blow up the ship every other week. Also, did we ever actually *see* the warp core?

The big thing on the floor in engineering had the dilithium crystals in it. Presumably that was the core.

All we know is it housed the dilithium crystals, we never heard it refered to as the warp drive...and wasn't that thing not there for 2 seasons or so? I remember reading somewhere (I forget where, a long time ago) that the engineering we see in the series was actually in the saucer section and the big glowing red thing was the impulse engine(?).

[Mark]

Also, to be fair in TOS they didn't have the budget to blow up the ship every other week. Also, did we ever actually *see* the warp core?

The big thing on the floor in engineering had the dilithium crystals in it. Presumably that was the core.

All we know is it housed the dilithium crystals, we never heard it refered to as the warp drive...and wasn't that thing not there for 2 seasons or so? I remember reading somewhere (I forget where, a long time ago) that the engineering we see in the series was actually in the saucer section and the big glowing red thing was the impulse engine(?).

Hey, excellent point. In fact, the first warp core we saw was in ST TMP on board a seriously refitted Enterprise. It's possible that the Connies didn't have a "warp core" per say, like we think of today.

[Sionnach Glic]

Fair point. They may have used some other, similar, system to run the ship instead.