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Firomactal drive
Canon - Official Star Trek Technology
Incredibly sophisticated and top secret part of a Federation starship, invented by Will Riker. ;-)
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Fluidic Space
Canon - Official Star Trek Technology
Realm of Species 8472, a parallel universe filled with a biological fluid.
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Food processor
Canon - Official Star Trek Technology
Ship system providing the crew of a 23rd century Federation
starship with food.
The food processor is possibly the predecessor of the replicator that
was introduced in the 24th century, but it is unknown whether the food
processor actually creates and composes the nutritive substances or
only conveys them.
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Forcefield
Canon - Official Star Trek Technology
Generic term for an artificially generated electromagnetic
or gravitational field. There is a wide variety of forcefields for different
purposes, for instance the deflector shield, the navigational deflector
field, the IDF, the SIF or the artificial gravity. Containment fields
are forcefields used to contain dangerous materials. Other types of
forcefields are generated to lock a starship brig or a shuttlebay while
the mechanical door is open.
Star Trek episodes often suggest that forcefields can easily be shaped
so as to provide a flat surface and an abrupt border. The force of real
electromagnetic or gravitational fields, however, decays proportional
to 1/r^2 in a distance r from the source. Sources from many directions
would have to interact in order to create the forcefields usually seen
in Star Trek. This is almost never the case, especially not in VOY:
"Extreme Risk", where B'Elanna manages to "project"
a perfectly flat and thin forcefield inside the Delta Flyer.
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FTL
Canon - Official Star Trek Technology
Acronym for Faster Than Light, applies to warp propulsion and 24th century computer systems.
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Fusion reactor
Canon - Official Star Trek Technology
Energy source which is based a fusion reaction, usually
employing deuterium that is fused to helium. A fusion reactor is used
to power the impulse drive of a Federation starship. The energized plasma
generated inside the reactor is then accelerated, fed into a driver
coil assembly and eventually exhausted, yielding the desired propulsive
effect. The impulse reactor is also used as auxiliary power source for
other ship systems. A similar technology is used to power the station
Deep Space Nine.
In a single atom scale, nuclear fusion can be achieved in particle accelerators.
However, a technical implementation requires thermal activation of the
fusion reaction, as it takes place inside the Sun and was developed
for the thermonuclear bomb (H-bomb). It is questionable if a breakthrough
in fusion research will be accomplished in the near future because fusion
is not free of problems concerning shielding, radiation and waste management.
Notwithstanding the fact that nuclear fusion does provide a much higher
power output than nuclear fission, it may be connected with similar
risks.
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