Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Star Trek Social Club@startrek.websiteEnglish · 2 days agoPlease advise on this conversation we had over on c/Piracy. Transporters and replicators, basic operating principles?lemmy.dbzer0.comimagemessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up122arrow-down11
arrow-up121arrow-down1imagePlease advise on this conversation we had over on c/Piracy. Transporters and replicators, basic operating principles?lemmy.dbzer0.comMelatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Star Trek Social Club@startrek.websiteEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square22fedilink
minus-squareElise@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 hours agoAFAIK they’re made from forcefields and photons, not matter and tractor beams. Or are tractor beams forcefields?
minus-squareValue Subtracted@startrek.websiteMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 hours agoTractor beams and force fields are actually both supposed to be applications of graviton technology, so…kinda? But no, I don’t think that bit of the Technical Manual is very consistent with how we saw the holodecks actually being used.
AFAIK they’re made from forcefields and photons, not matter and tractor beams. Or are tractor beams forcefields?
Tractor beams and force fields are actually both supposed to be applications of graviton technology, so…kinda?
But no, I don’t think that bit of the Technical Manual is very consistent with how we saw the holodecks actually being used.