From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!lanl-a!unm-ivax!nmtvax!anteop
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Title: Re: Why doesn't the Enterprise tumble?
Article-I.D.: nmtvax.277
Posted: Mon Apr 11 19:25:54 1983
Received: Mon Apr 18 20:23:33 1983

I have the following solution for the offcenter warp engine problem.
You are all looking at the problem to primatively.  The warp engines
don't push the ship forward like a rocket engine.  The impulse engines
function more along that line and are in a better position on the hull
for it too.  As for the warp drive, the antimatter-matter reactions of
main reactor are used to provide power for the warp drive modules.  They
stress the field of space around the ship (i.e. warp drive) by use of
the abviuos artificial gravity in the technology of the series.  By
stressing space they create a effective motion.  Also, it would be much
easier to move in any direction if you had two such generators and could
polarize them so to speak.  It would also be a very good idea to keep
something like that away from the rest of the ship to prevent to much
distortion of the onboard gravity.  This is a concept only so NO physics
flames; I don't want to here about it.

                              anteop
                              nmtvax