The quantum slipstream drive technology of the USS Dauntless (“Hope and Fear”) was studied by Starfleet, thus creating the future Dauntless-class starship in Prodigy, but did they do that with other technologies? Spatial trajector of the Sikarian, transwarp borg, Warp 10, etc?
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Likely all of them.
Voyager likely couldn’t incorporate a lot of the tech due to compatibility issues / needing a shipyard to do extensive modifications.
This is likely one of the reasons why they went back to modernizing older ship classes like the Excelsior, Constellation, Constitution, etc. ie: all those new ships we saw in Picard S2 and S3. They took older ship designs that are proven to have worked and are testing out new tech with them to test compatibility.
Eventually they would have discovered the optimal ship design for the most compatibility and start designing new ships based on it.
Certainly they studied the time mechanics of the Krenim in order to advance the Department of Temporal Investigations.
If they used a technology during the show, and it wasn’t specifically taken away, you can assume the Daystrom Institute got its paws on it.
When Voyager returned to Earth it had piles of not yet invented future technology attached to it. So likely that was studied first.
Also they had been able to use some kind of advanced communication technology to communicate with Star Fleet for sometime in the last season or so. That would have already enabled them to send Star Fleet any information they had on Delta Quadrant tech for some months prior to their return
They likely studied everything they got a sensor scan of. Voyager’s sensor logs would have been a gold mine for the Daystrom Institute, let alone any physical samples they got of all that Delta Quadrant tech, the Borg systems Voyager left in place after getting partly assimilated, the future tech they got from Admiral Janeway, and on and on.
The Federation had enough success with reverse engineering Slipstream tech to build the Dauntless class, but it apparently isn’t widely used yet by PIC. There may be problems we don’t see on screen that prevent it from becoming standard.
As for the rest of it? They are almost certainly working on reverse-engineering all of it but it can take years or decades to figure it out enough to build your own. THey are likely still working on most of it.
Voyager left the Alpha quadrant as one of the most advanced ships starfleet had and then returned as still one of the most advanced ships. Astro navigations is an entire department that 7of9 ran that no other ship even had.
A none exhausive list of tech that voyager collected that is just straight better then what the rest of starfleet had is; much more efficient replicators, medical tricorders at least a full generation ahead, mobile holographic emiters, transwarp coil, regenerative ablative armor.
Oh boy the “future Borg” & admiral Janeway tech is probably first, the nanites used against 8472 and trying to make sure there are no infiltration, they were dealing with that problem from the founders already. The slip stream tech, Borg trans warp. The list goes on…
> The quantum slipstream drive technology of the USS Dauntless (“Hope and Fear”) was studied by Starfleet, thus creating the future Dauntless-class starship in Prodigy, but did they do that with other technologies? Spatial trajector of the Sikarian, transwarp borg, Warp 10, etc?
A lot of it probably went the way of a lot of the other advanced technologies, like the Cytherian subspace bias/wormhole drive, soliton wave, etc, and simply vanished, never to be seen again
Some of the others might have been looked at, but weren’t that practical. Sikarian trajectors only work for that planet, or a planet structured exactly like it, which would be vanishingly rare, Warp 10 had the whole problem of doing terrible things to the occupants, and Transwarp isn’t a singular technology, but a whole class of them, seemingly like supersonic is for us (Excelsior, in the old movies, had a transwarp drive).
Remember that Voyager has been transmitting all their data on the links barclay created thru black holes that unbeknowst to starfleet, and barclay at the time, the borg were using for transwarp so the Borg queen was well aware of what voyager was doing as the collective was tapping in to the signal And all the upgrades that borg gave voyager like adative shields and nanoprobe torpedos to defeat species 8472 pales in comparison to the future tech admiral janeway brought back to defeat the Borg. The only sound tech from the delta quadrant was the quantum slipstream, and making the Dr. his own unique species that included being able to traverse the real word with his mobile emitter.