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

[zvi]

I didn't realize that Betazed was a relatively recent entry to the Federation! And I didn't particularly mean Betazed because I thought they were unusually like to be counselors, but because they were the first telepatic Trek species to come to my mind.

Er, Vulcan eugenics?

[thedrummertobeat]

Mainly lifted from Spock's World, but generally uncontradicted with the rest of Vulcan-related canon: in Vulcan's medieval period there began a concerted effort to elicit nascent psionic abilities in Vulcans, both through legitimate marriage contracts and the stealing of psi-enabled people for enforced breeding. It was that propagation that led to the greater telepathic &etc powers amongst the general population. Primitive, but effective.