• Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    There is an episode where Voyager is looking for a fuel source because they are dangerously low.

    They cram all the staff into two decks and pull all life support from the other thirteen. It only gets them an hour of propulsion at one-quarter impulse thrust.

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      It only gets them an hour of propulsion at one-quarter impulse thrust.

      Which is basically classical atomic sublight rocket tech.
      So some additional ability to just coast between planets when you are already in a star system.