Star Fleet Journal of Research and Studies: Volume Two
Contents
Commander Alexander Talion, USS Titania, RSV-88002; First Officer
Holographic Enabled Drones
There is a role for multipurpose drones, both on ships and in the field that could save lives and enhance the ability to effectively accomplish the mission with a smaller crew. We’re increasingly seeing crews asked to do more with less. The use of drones would not replace the use of organic crew members, but could augment them by using combined advanced technologies as a force multiplier. Most of this technology is already in use and only a minimal amount of modification manages to combine these elements in new and powerfully effective ways.
Full Article: Holographic Enabled Drones; Tactical
Lieutenant Benjamin Elias, USS Artemis, EX-11000; Chief Engineering Officer
On Long-Range Fleet Travel: Collective Slipstream Corridors and Their Dangers
Following the deployment of the Pathfinder Project flotilla to the Delta Quadrant, the challenges of maintaining a large-scale slipstream corridor to facilitate moving large groups of ships as a single force must be weighed against the benefits of doing so. As the first deployment en masse of slipstream-enabled ships, Pathfinder provides the first experimental data to evaluate this from, and so this paper seeks to provide such a cost-benefit analysis, looking purely from an engineering standpoint.
Full Article: On Long-Range Fleet Travel: Collective Slipstream Corridors and Their Dangers; Engineering
Midshipman Cornelius Hoekstra, USS Charon, RSV-88003; Engineering Officer
Effects And Characteristics Of Molybdenum Disilicide Jacketed Waveguides On The Strength And Efficiency Of Structural Integrity Fields
Structural integrity fields (SIFs) provide increased structural strength to starships. Making improvements on this technology can be difficult due to its cross-compatibility with other ship systems. One area where improvements could be made is the coating for the SIF network waveguides. Molybdenum disilicide (MoSi2) was identified as a potential replacement for the molybdenum coating currently in use. In the experiment, MoSi2resulted in higher tensile and compressive strengths, lower energy usage, and a decrease in shearing strength.
Midshipman Xeriean Astell, USS Philadelphia, FSV-66053; Science Officer
Refractive Quantum-Cellular Surgery
Medical science predates the existence of the Federation, but Quantum science as we know it has not. With the advent of cellular medicine we are able to explore a new equation in advancing our doctors to better save and serve. For several years now we have used transporters to repair DNA and other nucleonic functions. Using our new technology we can repair permanent cellular damage, remove incurable disease, increase cellular function and respiration, protect from radiation, and better study nano-quantum singularities.
Full Article: Refractive Quantum-Cellular Surgery; Science
