Special mention to Voyager, specifically having an entire spare warp core on board, tucked away in the bowels of the ship with no explanation for this given. No explanation especially given as to how the hell it’s supposed to be relocated and installed. Maybe with tractor beams or something, who knows.
If the crew could have managed to remember this, it would have made S04E03 a lot shorter.
Well, they can’t just leave an unstable warp core floating around in one of the weird sections of space. People are willing to risk their lives over just some of the plasma. They were close enough to retrieve it, also the Klingon engineer was having a bad day. Crew was just helping her save face. Dumping a warp core is like separating the saucer; only to be done if necessary.
Sure, but slapping the spare in there so the ship could be fully capable and ready to retrieve the thing, even if only to blow it up, would have been significantly smarter than sending out the two lovebirds in a dinky shuttle. And probably a damn sight faster, too.
They weren’t lovebirds until faced with death…after the dinky shuttle dinked out.
Voyager has a Borg and several Vulcans…yet somehow manages to remain the least logical crew. Still one of my favorite crews, I just wish they could’ve figured out how to keep ‘One’ alive. Don’t even get me started on Tuvix.
Special mention to Voyager, specifically having an entire spare warp core on board, tucked away in the bowels of the ship with no explanation for this given. No explanation especially given as to how the hell it’s supposed to be relocated and installed. Maybe with tractor beams or something, who knows.
If the crew could have managed to remember this, it would have made S04E03 a lot shorter.
Well, they can’t just leave an unstable warp core floating around in one of the weird sections of space. People are willing to risk their lives over just some of the plasma. They were close enough to retrieve it, also the Klingon engineer was having a bad day. Crew was just helping her save face. Dumping a warp core is like separating the saucer; only to be done if necessary.
Sure, but slapping the spare in there so the ship could be fully capable and ready to retrieve the thing, even if only to blow it up, would have been significantly smarter than sending out the two lovebirds in a dinky shuttle. And probably a damn sight faster, too.
They weren’t lovebirds until faced with death…after the dinky shuttle dinked out.
Voyager has a Borg and several Vulcans…yet somehow manages to remain the least logical crew. Still one of my favorite crews, I just wish they could’ve figured out how to keep ‘One’ alive. Don’t even get me started on Tuvix.
Use emergency power to transport it into place? But yeah… plot reasons likely prevented its use.
Probably it’s a placeholder for where a second one could be kept but it was not equipped at the time.
Could be covered in universe with someone complaining that the backup core wasn’t installed yet.
It was supposed to be installed on Tuesday