squiffy said:
Interia dampners.
Even if a ship could accelerate from sub light to light speed in a second the should would just atomize, not just the people on board.
Ah but it's not
really travelling faster than light, it's merely taking a kind of "short cut" by distorting subspace via Asymetric Peristaltic Field Manipulation
My favourite example of technical terminology is with regards to the transporters. One of the biggest problems with transporter technology is the Heisenberg uncertainty principle which states that you cannot know both the exact position and velocity of a particle at the same time. How did they get round this? With a magic box of tricks called the
Heisenberg Compensators
One thing that's kind of annoyed me recently with regard to Trek tech and lore is the Klingons. As we all know, in the original series the Klingons looks virtually human, the large foreheads appearing in the films and then the later TV series.
The writers bumped their heads against this one rather hard in the DS9 episode "Trials and Tribblations", as they had to mix the new cast into one of the bar scenes from the original "The Trouble with Tribbles" episode, where the Klingons were of the original "human" type.
They decided to write this so that, when the DS9 crew see how the older Klingons looked and query Worf about it, he merely answers "we do not discuss it with outsiders". The writers effectively sidestepped the whole issue and refused to explain it.
Given Trek's obsession with having a plausible explanation for everything, this was a very refreshing change of attitude and many applauded it. Unfortunately it appears that many fans didn't appreciate it and wanted a better explanation, which I find frankly pathetic. I suspect it was this pressure which led to the writers of Enterprise finally relenting and decided to try to explain what happened to cause the difference in appearance. I thought this was a total cop-out myself.
PS. Yes I'm a Trek geek, so shoot me
Three her storylines were interesting. Oh and I forgot to add, she has a nice borg ass too 
