Two possible effects

[zvi]

I posted the below to my journal couple of days ago, and then realized the question was appropriate for this comm:

So, that whole thing where conventional Federation warp drives were tearing apart the fabric of space-time, but, it appears, some solution must have been found for the problem, since someone thought it was a idea to build Voyager, with a cruising speed above Warp 9. (The environmental impact of gasoline distortion of the fabric of space-time by conventional warp technologies was a big part of the plot of the finale of TNG.)

Does Spock Prime remember enough of the associated engineering to tell people (a) what the problem is and (b) how to fix it? Is the problem even fixable with 23rd century technology? Does the problem even exist with 23rd century technology? Will Spock Prime give advanced technology to Montgomery Scott again, or will he give Vulcan a technological advance which allows them to turn into a civilization of pirates couriers.

Then today I was reading anne_higgins' No-Win Scenario which is not particularly germane to this comm, but which mentions that the low-level species wide telepathy was putting the Vulcans into a tail-spin, and I wondered if a large number of people from a different telepathic species would be helpful or harmful.

What do y'all think of either or both ponderances?

Comments

[melannen]

The species-wide telepathic link with destroyed planet was pretty extensively explored in New Who fandom (where the species-wide telepathy was already more or less established canon, and the tailspins of the survivors were pretty bleeding obvious.)

I don't know whether the idea that's been showing up in Reboot fic is bleedover from Who fandom, or if it's independently generated out of similar circumstance, but I can't see it in ST fic without thinking back to DW.

Vulcans' telepathy is hard to figure out anyway, though, because we've got the Romulans - the last set of a few tens of thousands Vulcan exiles - who've somehow managed to lose the ability (which was fundamental to their biology and culture) in just a couple thousand years. There've been a bunch of different explanations of why and how that happened, and I can't help but wonder if some of them will apply to the last Vulcans, too.