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Late Shows 2016: Starfleet Recruitment (Presentation 1)

Late Shows 2016: Starfleet Recruitment (Presentation 1)

A spoof Star Trek slideshow, created as a way of looking at FT: travel.

Beatrix Groves

May 15, 2016
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  1. Recruit Issues: Warp Drive • Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity

    (1905) • Introduced the concept of the space-time continuum (four dimensions) • Stated that space and time are RELATIVE to the frame of reference of the observer • E.g. The faster your velocity the slower time is for you when observed by someone else 'at rest' (and vice-versa) • Nothing can move faster than the speed of light: 299,792,458 metres per second – a governing factor in our universe. • Problems for travel to the stars!
  2. Faster-than-light Travel • Since there can be no travel faster

    than light, then research in the early 21st century looked at changing focus of travel to other solutions • Einstein-Rosen Bridge (colloquially know as a 'wormhole') • Use of exotic matter to punch a 'hole' through space-time into a higher dimension • Allows instantaneous travel through hyperspace to distant stars. • However, this technology has still not been stabilised by Star Fleet, and only three natural wormholes are known in our galaxy. All three are in politically sensitive zones. • It is thought that the Romulans may have workable-but-dangerous wormhole technology, using captured mini blackholes. Starfleet intelligence indicates that several Romulan ships have been lost in ERB experiments.
  3. Warp Drive Development • Those of you who did warp

    mechanics at school will be familiar with field metric posited by Miguel Alcubierre: • Which defines the space-time curvature necessary to exceed lightspeed. • Alcubierre's concepts were developed in the 21st Century (before Trump's WW3) and incorporated into the first warp ships. • Matter-antimatter reaction within a magnetic 'bottle' provides the enormous power necessary for the field distortion. • This is controlled and focussed by dilithium crystals (the contribution of Zephram Cochrane in 2063. Old Style)
  4. Warp Drive Issues • 94.86% safe, with no warp core

    explosions in the past two years. • Occasional dimensional rifts, resulting in craft being shifted into different universes or back in time. • Radiation problems with core output of Zeta rays causing starship crew wearing red tunics to age rapidly. • Some rare instances of spatial distortions within starships resulting in crew toilets being dimensionally linked to back gardens in Bradford, England. • All complaints to Starfleet Public Relations.