Why warp core change color

fushigidane2001 · **Wed Jun 25, 2003 4:40 am Why warp core change color**

in first time warp core not blue
but now it blue

Tech · **Wed Jun 25, 2003 4:58 am**

Are you sure? By the way, where are you from?

Pyanfar Chanur · Lieutenant Joined: 24 Jun 2003 Posts: 140

in TOS they were using low quality antimater, with small focusing crystals, My TNG they had discovered methods to refine the antimater, and were using much bigger crystals to focus it. In voyager they were using plasma, not antimater, so thats way outada ball park.

Tech · **Wed Jun 25, 2003 7:58 am**

I thought you said at the beginning of Voyager... after all, this *is* the Voyager board. Anyway, I've never seen TOS before, so I wouldn't know.

@Chuckles · **Wed Jun 25, 2003 9:29 am**

Moved to ST tech. Didn't fit in Voyager

Pyanfar Chanur · Lieutenant Joined: 24 Jun 2003 Posts: 140

YOUVE NEVER SEEN TOS!!!!!! you poor deprived soul.... lol I've got every episode of TOS on tape

Lt.BirdGod · **Fri Jun 27, 2003 3:39 pm**

Lets not get into this, I never liked TOS anyways.

But back to the topic, its all a matter of the color of the particles in the core itself, simple enough. You can get into all of the different Matter, Anti-Matter, Plasma, etc. etc. but Ya know, for a guy who asks too many simple questions, ya gotta give simple answers.

Pyanfar Chanur · Lieutenant Joined: 24 Jun 2003 Posts: 140

awww but I like being scientific....

Melodramatic · Rear Admiral Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Posts: 4577

Well, when somethings get really powerful like at top speed or something its bound to change colours..... I dont really now why, I did not really pau much attention to that.

sabertooth1217 · **Sun Jun 29, 2003 7:12 pm**

all i know is that it was blue on voyager. was it ever another color?

Alpha6006 · **Sun Jun 29, 2003 7:19 pm Re: LLLLLOOOOOOLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!**

PrankishSmart · **Mon Jun 30, 2003 3:01 am**

What he means I think is why did the colour of voyagers warp core change from a colourful one in the first few episodes in the first season, to a more pure blue one after that. I tryed to find a few pictures, but I can't find them.

The colour change was from a colourful pink, red, blue slowly swirling one, to a fast swirling blue one.

Lt.BirdGod · **Mon Jun 30, 2003 7:34 pm**

I didn't even know it changed color. I guess I never thought about it.

PrankishSmart · **Mon Jun 30, 2003 11:41 pm**

A good tech explanation that I saw somewhere else is that they cannot mine high enough grade deutirium, so they have a small compromise on A/AM reaction, so that does result in a colour change. The reason they cannot obtain fine quality deutirium is because starfleet refines the fuel or something, or goes through a quality control process.

But, of course it would be something to do with the shows budget, or something similar non tech.

starnova · **Fri Aug 27, 2004 12:28 pm**