How do ships in star trek move

Question

How do ships in star trek move

Answer 1

Warp engine -- anti-matter matter reaction to energy to generate warp field for faster than light travel.

Impulse drive -- a fusion reactor, an accelerator-generator, a driver coil assembly and a vectored thrust nozzle to direct the plasma exhaust.

Answer 2

  Warp drive.

Answer 3

There are two ways that the ships are made to move:

(a) The older ones were scale models, far smaller than an actual ship. Usually the method for making them "move" was just to shoot them with a moving camera. Once a fake background of stars is added, the sensation can be pretty convincing.

(b) They now use computer rendering, in which case they just render it from a different position. Voila!

So I guess you could say that they're both quite stationary...

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Or oh, do you mean the imaginary physics?

In that case, for sublight, they would use some kind of energy propulsion. The closest we have are ion thrusters:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_engines

For "warp speed", there are lots of ideas presented on the show, that basically try to be more sophistocated as the show (and science) progresses.

Basically, they make a "warp bubble", that allows them to move through "subspace". Supposedly, faster movement is possible in subspace. Why is it faster, and what is subspace? You've got me.

Answer 4

all chief Engineers are required to eat a high fiber diet full of legumes.

these flammable intestinal gasses ignite and propel the spacecraft

(you do know this show was FICTION, right?)

Answer 5

There are three methods of propulsion for a ship in Star Trek. Maneuvering thrusters for slow, delicate movement. Impulse engines for basic interplanetary travel at sub-light speeds. Warp engines for interstellar travel and faster-than-light speeds.

Answer 6

The whole engine idea is supposed to be a hybrid engine combining a bussard ramjet with and anti-matter drive, a huge magnetic scoop is projected in front of the space ship to gather hydrogen molecules that are combined with anti-matter to some how move that ship, this engine work for impulse speed and warp speed in the movies.