They can’t but it doesn’t die either. If you think about it, more than a few crew could survive on a crippled starship. Maybe some go into a protective stasis or an Android officer like Data could be retrievable.
The warp core isn’t the only source of power on the whole ship; it’s just the biggest and electroplasmiest. Starships also have fusion power plants. Y’know, those old-fashioned atom-smashing machines? They’re crude, like the power-plant equivalent of two cavemen swinging wooden clubs at each other, but they power the impulse drives, and nobody’s going to complain about at least being able to go somewhere when the anomaly of the week turns the warp core into a flower pot or something.
For some reason, nothing bad ever seems to happen to the fusion reactors. I guess it’s because the reaction fizzling out and shutting down quietly isn’t very dramatic. Fusion reactors aren’t all explodey like antimatter is.
Yes and now we have no engine power and 1 hour of life support left before we suffocate. Everyone except the EMH who doesn’t require oxygen.
How can they still run the EMH if they don’t have power for running a few fans?
They can’t but it doesn’t die either. If you think about it, more than a few crew could survive on a crippled starship. Maybe some go into a protective stasis or an Android officer like Data could be retrievable.
The warp core isn’t the only source of power on the whole ship; it’s just the biggest and electroplasmiest. Starships also have fusion power plants. Y’know, those old-fashioned atom-smashing machines? They’re crude, like the power-plant equivalent of two cavemen swinging wooden clubs at each other, but they power the impulse drives, and nobody’s going to complain about at least being able to go somewhere when the anomaly of the week turns the warp core into a flower pot or something.
For some reason, nothing bad ever seems to happen to the fusion reactors. I guess it’s because the reaction fizzling out and shutting down quietly isn’t very dramatic. Fusion reactors aren’t all explodey like antimatter is.