Talk:Warp drive history
From Hidden Frontier
Comprehensive, but too long. With no sections, this is too difficult to read.
Also, it goes beyond the scope of this encyclopedia, which is to deal primarily with Hidden Frontier canon. Regular Star Trek canon like this article represents is already well-covered by other wikis. Not to mention that much of the material is purely speculative and/or non-canon for either Trek OR Hidden Frontier, so I'm inclined to remove this since it has little to no direct relevance to Hidden Frontier. Care to make a case otherwise? --/carlos 17:33, 3 Mar 2005 (PST)
Source Material?
I appreciate the reorganization of this article, but two major concerns remain:
-- Where is the relevance to HF? This wiki is NOT intended to be a general Trek reference; other wikis do it better.
-- What is the source for this material? As it stands it's only purely speculative with little canonical foundation. --/carlos 10:25, 5 Mar 2005 (PST)
Plan to reorganize
Without compelling argument otherwise, I suggest reorganizing this very long article into shorter, discrete ones. One on Warp Drive (theory), and the others on the various historical aspects (separate articles, for example, on First Contact and the NX-01 Project). --/carlos 00:21, 7 Mar 2005 (PST)
- I'm alright with that. -- Zefram 11:16, 7 Mar 2005 (PST)
Deletion Discussion
It looks like the proposed reorganization did not occur. I have to echo the concerns that Carlos had (as I have with so many other articles of this type) regarding the source materials used to create this article. While it does provide an interesting story, I cannot determine how much of it is supported by actual canon (I can only assume it is supported by licensed works at best) and appears to have no direct bearing on the HF-verse.
The best material, and the one that would appear to be closest to canon (aside from the description of "Broken Bow" sans the "warp highways" bit - first I've heard of this), would be the theoretical description of warp travel provided in the first section. I think this could be added, with slight modification, to the appropriate existing article on warp drive (or another appropriate article). As such, I'm opening up a deletion discussion with a two-week clock. DHillMSP 06:42, 26 April 2009 (PDT)
