Star Trek: Why Doesn't The Federation Have Cloaking Technology?

Could be that the screenplay writer put on characters which the 21st century public could identify with. If all were young and beautiful/handsome at 150 years of age, it could be too much of a shock for some who might switch off the tv. Especially the older generation of star trek fans.

 

How old are you?

 

Old enough to know what a nipple is

 

It's a guy thing and age has nothing whatsoever to do about it :baby:



Hotwater

 

Even the best alien ever invented for Tv, predator had cloaking devices.

 

We need the maturity police to keep us in check from time to time

 

It's not that, it's you've got a whole internet of porn out there now

And you are going to get excited about some girls nipple on a TV show

????

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3e3SI-CKBM

 

Vulcan tits make me horny

 

Maturity police and vanilla gorilla in one sentence... That's not scifi, that's fantasy!

 

I saw that episode of seinfeld

http://youtu.be/DRaLpHoZA8E

 

I think the universal translator might be malfunctioning

 

And another thing, why do they have sliding doors?

Why don't they just put up a force field, and use holographic technology to make it look like a wall?

That way, if alien intruders board the vessel and decide to go round killing everyone on board they'll have to get through a force field instead of a door, which is easier to bust open or shoot with a phaser. Also, if the door to your quarters doesn't look like a door then even better.

 

Why isn't the whole ship just a force field?

What do they need metal for?

 

They would need metal for the holographic generators. You can't have a holographic generator that's also a hologram of itself, that's just being silly.

 

Why not?

You should be able to replicate a replicator

If you have to wait for their shields to drop before a torpedo is effective, what do you need the torpedo for? Just beam over the stuff inside the torpedo that blows up, or just beam out all their oxygen, or do a Magneto and beam out all the iron from their blood.

 

How do you replicate a replicator without a physical replicator?

It is just so that in the star trek universe there happens to be holographic life with holographic technology that developed on itself, without humans and their technology. So that's how there could also be a holographic generator methinks. Don't ask me about the technological details though, I admit readily I dont have them

 

The ship is made of some sort of futuristic titanium alloy AND protected by shields because when they lose power the metal skin is the only thing keeping the crew from drifting off into space and sucking vacuum.

The Star Trek transporter supposedly converts everything into waves it then reassembles at their destination. Similar to a radio converting radio waves back into sound, however, in real life a matter transporter of that type would require thousands of years just to beam something across the room. The series writers got around such difficulties by inventing a "Heisenberg Compensator" without ever providing any real explanation for how its supposed to work or what it does other than compensate for Indeterminacy.

Gene Roddenberry knew his subject and based all of his science fiction technology on the assumption that in the near future we would discover that, sometimes, otherwise ordinary quartz crystals are actually four dimensional objects. There has actually been a concerted effort in recent years to produce an artificial four dimensional crystal that can warp time and one physicist in Connecticut has been experimenting with using concentric laser beams moving in counter-rotating circles through a Bose-Einstein condensate to see if he can warp space-time enough to see photons coming through from the future but, so far, no dice.

Theoretically a Star Trek style warp drive is possible, but would crush anything in front of the ship to subatomic mush and require the power of something like the sun to operate. A much more efficient version would resemble Dr Who's tardis where you could send a spaceship off toward another star at sub-light speeds, but the astronauts could simply open the door and go home when their shift was over. When the ship reaches its destination you have a Star Gate that allows anyone to instantly go back and forth, but even this design would require something like a small moon made of anti-matter for a power supply.

The franchise has actually delayed producing this latest series due to the rapidly changing technology coming on the market today. They simply didn't want their futuristic show to somehow look outdated before it even went on the air.

If you ask me, what's actually coming next in the way of far-out technology is so off-the-wall you wouldn't believe me if I told you and would seriously struggle to wrap your brain around what it means.