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Originally Posted by ASEI
I wonder what the Star Trek screenwriters would pay for a GR consultant to come up with the "realistic" looking background warp that would happen under the standard alcubierre warp-drive fields? Surely computer special effects time doesn't cost that much more these days than "screensaver #5".
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Nothing, now. And of course when the franchise was on the air, they paid GR consultants... nothing. I guess they wanted audience familiarity, not realism.
<Minor nitpick> (Since ST warp drive is not Alcubierre warp drive, operates on totally different principles and would look totally different from the inside if either one were "real", they likely wouldn't care what AWD looks like anyway.)</Minor nitpick>
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