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It's been a while since I did a Star Trek image, now that I am able to submit meshes here again by going through sta.sh now that Jumpshare is no longer an option at this time. Just hit download, and the mesh is available in ZIP format.

Anyways, I'm not sure if you read this:

www.universetoday.com/153803/n…

In order for a Bussard collector to be used as a viable propulsion source, the magnetic field needs to be 150 million kilometres across... about the same distance between the Earth and the sun.

But then again, the Enterprise doesn't travel the stars via Bussard collectors, it uses warp drive that stores its fuel supply while using the Bussard collectors to collect a small amount of fuel for emergencies.

But how will they get deuterium from a star as shown on the image?

Solar winds from stars actually expels hydrogen from a star with some helium. Chances are it might expel deuterium and helium-3 for the ship's fusion reactors, and they need to adjust the matter/antimatter ratio in order to increase their chances of reaching a Federation starbase before their antimatter supply is also exhausted.

The original series talked about regenerating their antimatter supply, especially the episode, "One of Our Planets Is Missing," figuring they too have an antimatter generator like their TNG counterpart which requires tonnes of fuel. Hence the need for Bussard collectors.

On TNG, the antimatter generator on the Galaxy class needs 30 units of deuterium to generate 1 unit of antimatter. I figure during TOS, they might up to 100-200 units of deuterium for 1 unit of antimatter. But chances are they are so bulky, they might not be able to fit onto a Constitution class starship -- unless that's what was in that massive cargo bay we saw on TMP with their own fusion reactors. One of those mysteries, I guess as the blueprints I am still working on doesn't show it. But it might actually be either above the warp core, in the neck, or someplace that's close to the main antimatter supply.

I figure newer generations starting with the Intrepid class has more energy efficient antimatter generators that keep up with the fuel demands and can be powered by the warp core. Where you need 30 units of deuterium to generate 1 unit of antimatter, antimatter releases 300 times as much energy as 2 units of deuterium fusing together. So 30 out of 300, that's 10% of the ship's warp power. And then when we jumped to the year 3000 when dilithium supplies were running low, then chances are they probably found a way to have the generators so efficient with a very high output, that even a ship the size of a Galaxy class would only need 2 antimatter pods instead of 30, and just needs any sort of matter source.

By the way, Romulan singularity drives also needs dilithium crystals. Deuterium is injected into the singularity which shreds the matter into energy and the energy is belched out of the poles where the dilithium crystals then focuses the energy to the nacelles. And even if they found a way to use the Elway theorem as an alternative energy source by dimensionally shifting raw energy from a star into the ship's warp core, it still needs dilithium to focus the energy.

And if both Po -- Me Hani Ika Hali Ka Po -- discovered a way to recrystalize dilithium with Spock using 20th century nuclear fission as an alternative source to recrystalize dilithium, dilithium can only be recrystalized so often like how many things like paper can be recycled so often. Especially since trilithium is a toxic waste generated by the warp engines which can come from dilithium, and betting they can only extract only so much dilithium from that waste.

I am defending the Burn plot for season 3 of Discovery even though both seasons 3 and 4 seems to be rushed without real refinement. No where near as bad as Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, but it does feel rushed and lacking refinement as though they are cramming in 2 seasons worth of stories into a single season, like David Lynch's 1984 version of Dune.

EDIT: I just realized something. I looked at a MSD I made for this Enterprise, and remembered the deflector dish had an antiproton transformer. It accelerates electrons so close to the speed of light, they have the same density as protons with a negative charge. So they might have a converter that converts the kinetic energy of the light speed electrons into an interstitial spin to become an antiproton.

This means the Enterprise will need 400-500 units of helium-3 and deuterium to generate 1 unit if antimatter, but guessing the warp core will be at an 8:1 M/A ratio to cut down in the fuel requirements. And still needs to go to stars to refuel.

Description

It's been a while since I did a Star Trek image, now that I am able to submit meshes here again by going through sta.sh now that Jumpshare is no longer an option at this time. Just hit download, and the mesh is available in ZIP format.

Anyways, I'm not sure if you read this:

www.universetoday.com/153803/n…

In order for a Bussard collector to be used as a viable propulsion source, the magnetic field needs to be 150 million kilometres across... about the same distance between the Earth and the sun.

But then again, the Enterprise doesn't travel the stars via Bussard collectors, it uses warp drive that stores its fuel supply while using the Bussard collectors to collect a small amount of fuel for emergencies.

But how will they get deuterium from a star as shown on the image?

Solar winds from stars actually expels hydrogen from a star with some helium. Chances are it might expel deuterium and helium-3 for the ship's fusion reactors, and they need to adjust the matter/antimatter ratio in order to increase their chances of reaching a Federation starbase before their antimatter supply is also exhausted.

The original series talked about regenerating their antimatter supply, especially the episode, "One of Our Planets Is Missing," figuring they too have an antimatter generator like their TNG counterpart which requires tonnes of fuel. Hence the need for Bussard collectors.

On TNG, the antimatter generator on the Galaxy class needs 30 units of deuterium to generate 1 unit of antimatter. I figure during TOS, they might up to 100-200 units of deuterium for 1 unit of antimatter. But chances are they are so bulky, they might not be able to fit onto a Constitution class starship -- unless that's what was in that massive cargo bay we saw on TMP with their own fusion reactors. One of those mysteries, I guess as the blueprints I am still working on doesn't show it. But it might actually be either above the warp core, in the neck, or someplace that's close to the main antimatter supply.

I figure newer generations starting with the Intrepid class has more energy efficient antimatter generators that keep up with the fuel demands and can be powered by the warp core. Where you need 30 units of deuterium to generate 1 unit of antimatter, antimatter releases 300 times as much energy as 2 units of deuterium fusing together. So 30 out of 300, that's 10% of the ship's warp power. And then when we jumped to the year 3000 when dilithium supplies were running low, then chances are they probably found a way to have the generators so efficient with a very high output, that even a ship the size of a Galaxy class would only need 2 antimatter pods instead of 30, and just needs any sort of matter source.

By the way, Romulan singularity drives also needs dilithium crystals. Deuterium is injected into the singularity which shreds the matter into energy and the energy is belched out of the poles where the dilithium crystals then focuses the energy to the nacelles. And even if they found a way to use the Elway theorem as an alternative energy source by dimensionally shifting raw energy from a star into the ship's warp core, it still needs dilithium to focus the energy.

And if both Po -- Me Hani Ika Hali Ka Po -- discovered a way to recrystalize dilithium with Spock using 20th century nuclear fission as an alternative source to recrystalize dilithium, dilithium can only be recrystalized so often like how many things like paper can be recycled so often. Especially since trilithium is a toxic waste generated by the warp engines which can come from dilithium, and betting they can only extract only so much dilithium from that waste.

I am defending the Burn plot for season 3 of Discovery even though both seasons 3 and 4 seems to be rushed without real refinement. No where near as bad as Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, but it does feel rushed and lacking refinement as though they are cramming in 2 seasons worth of stories into a single season, like David Lynch's 1984 version of Dune.

EDIT: I just realized something. I looked at a MSD I made for this Enterprise, and remembered the deflector dish had an antiproton transformer. It accelerates electrons so close to the speed of light, they have the same density as protons with a negative charge. So they might have a converter that converts the kinetic energy of the light speed electrons into an interstitial spin to become an antiproton.

This means the Enterprise will need 400-500 units of helium-3 and deuterium to generate 1 unit if antimatter, but guessing the warp core will be at an 8:1 M/A ratio to cut down in the fuel requirements. And still needs to go to stars to refuel.