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Is time dilation ever mentioned in Star Trek? [duplicate]
I am pretty sure that in the original series, not movies or novels both of which I am less familiar with, Special Relativity is simply not mentioned — Einstein himself makes appearances in later ...
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Has Star Trek ever addressed the issue of superluminal communication and time travel?
With our current understanding of space-time and SR (presumably, the understanding shared in the Star Trek universe), superluminal travel can lead to incidental time travel into the past. See this and ...
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Do multiple warp fields stack?
Warp cores use a huge amount of energy to create a warp field, and then a comparatively lesser amount of energy to maintain it. At warp 1, this is 20 gigajoules and 200 megajoules, respectively. Is it ...
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From the bridge why can you see another ship in space, shouldn't there be no light?
Sorry if this has been asked before but I searched and was unable to locate an answer. Something that has always bothered me is in Star Trek whenever the Enterprise comes upon another ship in deep ...
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In ST:VOY why didn't fluidic space collapse into a black hole?
I've been thinking about this question for many years, and today I came upon this amazing question, Why didn't fluidic space crush Voyager?.
Part of the accepted answer is:
It is safe to ...
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How can ship crew walk in USS Enterprise?
Has there been a scientific explanation for ship crew walking in spaceships in Star Trek? I know rotating stations can create artifical gravity but USS Enterprise does not rotate, at least not enough ...
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Could the Quadros 1 probe have been launched in 2193?
The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Emissary" establishes the existence of the Quadros-1 probe, which surveyed the Gamma Quadrant. Apparently it encountered the Idran system, close to the Gamma ...
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When a ship drops out of warp does it retain the speed it was at when it entered warp?
Within the Trek Universe, if a Starship was to enter warp while at full impulse, would it still be at full impulse when it dropped out of warp?
In the same vein;
Is it even possible to enter warp ...
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Is there a canon explanation for why Star Trek ships bank when turning?
This is quite obvious if, like me, you've played the Star Trek MMO where the game designers were inspired by the motion of the ships in the movies. I think it's most noticeable when the Bird of Prey ...
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Do ships at warp experience time dilation?
From the Gene Roddenberry quote in this answer:
'In answering these questions, I came up with the statement that "this time system adjusts for shifts in relative time which occur due to the vessel'...
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Effect of Special Relativity in the Star Trek Universe [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How is the FTL drive supposed to work in Star Trek?
In our known universe, people traveling close to or at the speed of light would experience time roughly 1000x slower than ...
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What is the difference between photon torpedoes and quantum torpedoes?
It seems that quantum torpedeos are the next generation of photon torpedoes but I was wondering what made them better and what makes them 'quantum'.
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