> Re: CD Manual
>
> >      However I do have one question to anyone out there:  Can anyon
C#>explai
> > briefly and in English, a simple summary of how warp technology wor
> > --Raccoon

C#>engines produce large amounts of energy.. warp field is created around
C#>that puts the ship partly in subspace (another dimension), and accordin
C#>the amount of energy fed.. they zip off at high rates of speed..

This sounds like more of a description of trans-warp drive (as described
in the addendum at the end of Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise).  The
standard warp theory that I read in The Next Generation Technical Manual
(and CD also) describes energy being fed into warp coils to create a warp
field.  The energy is oscillated through the series of warp coils to create
motion in real space.  Faster speeds require faster oscillation of the
energy through the coils (and I presume, more power is needed to drive
these faster oscillations).  If it helps, think of the experiment in grade
school science where they show off the lines of flux around a magnet by
putting a magnet under a sheet of cardboard and then pouring metal filings
on the cardboard.  If you compare the lines of flux (magnetic field) to the
"lines" of a warp field, then set them in motion (front to rear, or rear to
front for reverse motion), the flux lines would act like the oars on a
racing rowboat.  The faster the lines get moving, the faster the ship goes.
 This is as plain of English that I can explain it in and be fairly
accurate, although it's all fiction anyway.  

				Swash


Chekov, set course for Spacedock. Sulu, get out and push.
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