Welcome to my Star Trek webpage! This webpage began its life as a project that I did for my class in HTML at Ohio State University - and which has taken on a life of its own well after that class has ended. I hope you enjoy browsing through it as much as I did creating it.
One of the things I have found the most fascinating about Star Trek is its incredibly powerful technology, particularly its starships. However, the exact nature of this technology remains somewhat nebulous, as the show's writers do not really understand how 24th Century technology works (for quite understandable reasons). This webpage is my way of airing my own analysis on the vehicles that routinely accomplish the impossible...whether it be transmitting matter from one point to another in perfect condition, maneuvering and accelerating/decelerating at sublight speeds with a casual disregard of inertia, exiting from the event horizon of a black hole, or traveling at superluminal velocities between the stars.
Given that this website is my own take on Star Trek starships and their technology, the charts and commentaries will, more often than not, conflict with the "official" tech manuals published on Treknology (as well as background information presented by the show's writers and producers). This is because, unlike the tech manuals, I attempt to reconcile Gene Roddenberry's original vision of Treknology (as presented in TOS and the early first season of TNG) along with the far less powerful version endorsed by his successors (it's ironic that superior F/X technology has resulted in a grossly inferior portrayal of Star Trek technology). Although they will generally be in line with what is presented onscreen in all Star Trek series and movies, they will not be consistent with everything shown or stated in Star Trek episodes and movies - nor can they be, given the current writers' general favoring of weaker Treknology and their less-than-perfect understanding of real science, not to mention Star Trek's notoriously less-than-perfectly consistent dialogue and special effects (F/X). The term YATI (Yet Another Trek Inconsistency) wasn't coined to describe a rare occurrence - and it was devised long before TPTB (The Powers That Be) behind Star Trek: Voyager elected to permit (and even encourage) deliberate violations of continuity for their own conveniences. As such, I tend to err on the side of the more powerful technology - my logic being that it's far more plausible to believe that the characters failed to fully utilize what was at their disposal (or that other factors not mentioned onscreen might be responsible for the mitigation), than to presume that the technology has regressed to a much less capable level that what was available a century before.