The Dyson Sphere

AMKC

I think this deserves a thread all of its own.

So do we know whatever happened to the Dyson Sphere. Where were all the people that built and were supposed to live on it?

Did Starfleet study it further?

They sent two science vessels to study it. They could have sent twenty or two hundred and still only scratched the surface of it.

Oh yes by the way I am watching Relics on Sci-fi.

I would love to see it make an appearance on Lower Decks.

In fact I think it would make a great series too.

Star Trek: The Dyson Sphere

I think it could make for a very interesting series. Anyone agree?

Spear

It gets covered a lot in Star Trek Online, but the canonicity of that is dubious, even if the show runners are happy to borrow plenty of other elements from it.

Lower Decks would provide the best opportunity for a revisit as animation isn't by budget in the same way.

the_amazing_raisin

I'm loving how Lower Decks is revisiting a lot of the old worlds visited during the main series and showing how the whole "fix the problem of the day and then up and leave" generally wasn't the end of the story

Particularly the way the whole psychotic AI trying to get the locals to kill each other is a meme now 😁

So yeah I could totally see them visiting the Dyson Sphere in an episode

I agree that a series set inside the Dyson Sphere would be cool. Kind of like a cross between Voyager and Deep Space 9, maybe some starships get stuck inside the sphere with some antagonists and they have to figure out how to survive, set up a base, learn to get along, etc.

It'd be interesting to see the dynamics of how they'd still be able to fly around inside the sphere but couldn't just warp out of there

Slydice

Can't remember for sure but think the people left it because the star on the inside was going bad or becoming dangerous or something.

TheValeyard

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120118017#Comment_120118017

Definitely something to do with the star and expelling unusually high amounts of lethal radiation or something. Been a few years since I watched it.

Sure now they could just add a drop of 'Red Matter' that ambassador Spock created and explore it in peace.

the_amazing_raisin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120136521#Comment_120136521

Ah I'm sure the whole red matter thing was researched in the usual star trek way

That is, it's done by a single person or very small team working in isolation, without any input or interaction with other teams, without publishing a single paper or article and not getting any of their work peer reviewed, and crucially not having any form of off-site backup

So of course it gets lost forever when it inevitably gets used up/destroyed/fatal flaw discovered or the inventor gets killed/sent back in time

Evade

I think the Dyson Sphere* is better left as a mystery or at most have an offhand comment attributing its construction to one of the precursor civilisations - Iconians, Tkon Empire, the progenitor aliens from the Chase, etc.

*I'm pretty sure the one in relics is actually a Dyson Shell

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120174369#Comment_120174369

No its definitely a Dyson Sphere.

I hope it gets mentioned in "Lower Decks" even seen or visited would be great.

Evade

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120174530#Comment_120174530

A sphere doesn't cover the whole star a shell does.

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120175087#Comment_120175087

Maybe not but that's what it is called.

the_amazing_raisin

Interesting fact, apparently there's no net gravitational force between the star and the Dyson Sphere/Shell/Hoover

So the sphere doesn't orbit the star and needs to actively control it's distance to the star otherwise it'll drift off center and the star could pull on side of the sphere closer and crash into it

That would definitely make for the universe's ultimate car crash video 😂

Might also be a decent storyline. Ship and crew is trapped inside and the sphere is breaking down and needs to be fixed before it crashed into the star.

Or they could use the star busting out the side of the sphere as an escape method, at the cost of destroying the sphere itself and all the knowledge and history contained in it

High stakes drama, near certain doom, moral dilemma and questionable science, sounds like a Star Trek storyline to me 😁

Evade

The forces would be the same because both sides are being pulled towards the star at the same rate but if the star was at the centre of the sphere initially it shouldn't need any correction.