Warp Field Coils

Maintenance of warp field coils aboard an Intrepid class.

Warp field coils (also called warp coils or field coils) are toroidal structures within a starship's warp drive nacelles that, when bombarded by high energy plasma, actually form the subspace "bubble" in which the ship travels in warp. Exposure to a verteron pulse can overload field coils, causing warp drive, and all other subspace systems, to fail.

These coils are made from multiple layers of verterium cortenide (a densified composite material composed of polysilicate verterium and monocrystal cortenum) which surrounds a core of densified tungsten-cobalt-magnesium.