USS Enterprise‑C Impulse Engines

Warp Drive Circuitry suffers a critical malfunction reported by Singh over communications, representing a severe threat to the ship’s propulsion and mission integrity. This failure is a key element in the escalating crisis and complicates engineering response efforts.

Warp Drive Circuitry is specifically reported as malfunctioning, indicating a critical threat to the ship’s faster-than-light propulsion. This technical failure raises stakes dramatically, emphasizing the ship’s vulnerability and the urgency of addressing sabotage.

The warp engine core receives injected reactants and is powered up from a dormant state to minimum warp operational status, its activation signaled by increasing engine lights and sound cues confirming successful sequence start.

The warp engines are discussed but unseen—idle giants resting on the flanks of the ship. A four-hour induced coma is prescribed so their plasma breath can be redirected into matter-stream flesh, powering replicators that will reconstruct death itself into neat, portable universes.

The ship's mighty cathedral hearts—these twin Titans of folded space—must fall silent. Their antimatter pulses will fade to ember while replicators steal their life's breath, leaving Enterprise adrift between stars at the mercy of Newton's patient clock.

The twin warp nacelles stand inert, drained to feed the replicator frenzy below. They become a silent canyon through which the energy sphere slips like a needle through silk, their deactivated state offering no electromagnetic bridle for the newcomer.

The dormant warp engines stand cold after Geordi’s power-down, their stalked silhouettes becoming a ceremonial archway through which the living sphere drifts, untouched by physical shields or magnetic coils.

Power-dormant warp engines transform into twin canyon-like landmarks for the energy sphere to navigate between—their sleeping coils now geographic markers rather than propulsive force, their blue ventilation vents whispering passively as the sphere threads their aperture.

The warp engines are the operational goal of the repair: previously constrained by deuterium conduit maintenance, they are declared available following Geordi's final adjustments, converting technical correction into tactical mobility for the ship.

The ship's warp engines are invoked as a pointed counterargument to the shutdown risk: Geordi warns that even if Romulan phasers don't kill them, a catastrophic engine failure could. Engines are thus framed as both hazard and reason to accept the wipe — they will be powered down as part of the procedure and are rhetorically used to justify the gamble.

The warp engines are the ship's primary counter to the vortex's pull: Geordi manipulates their output, bringing them to warp nine and then maximum effort to break the hold, while repeatedly warning that the systems are near catastrophic strain.

The warp engines are pushed to extreme output to attempt to break free from the vortex's pull; their strain dictates tactical time pressure and shapes Picard's sacrifice calculus.

The warp engines are the bridge's primary means to escape; Geordi manipulates them from warp nine down to warp seven and then to maximum to hold position or attempt to break free, but the vortex's pull taxes them to near failure and limits tactical options.

The Enterprise warp engines are discussed as both a resource (they will be used to intercept the T'Ong) and as a hypothetical target (Geordi suggests disabling the T'Ong's warp engines); they anchor technical possibilities and limitations in the deliberation.

The Enterprise warp engines are discussed as both a propulsion capability for intercept and a tactical lever (Geordi references knocking out enemy warp engines) — they are part of the technical options for disabling or reaching the T'Ong.

The Enterprise warp engines (specifically the dilithium chamber) are the immediate technical focus: Geordi and an assistant are aligning the chamber, demonstrating current maintenance work and engineering competence that establishes credibility for tackling the Hathaway's older systems.

The warp engines are the technical enabler of the Hathaway's survival: Geordi warns they may fail under hurried implementation, and the plan hinges on their functioning for a two‑second warp initiated precisely a millisecond before detonation.

The Enterprise warp engines are cited as the critical technical component: the Hathaway's brief warp jump depends on their functioning. Data and Geordi emphasize that if those engines fail, the deception becomes a real catastrophe.

The Hathaway's warp engines are the critical mechanical system that must respond instantly to the computer trigger; their reliability underpins the entire millisecond gambit and the engineering team's risk calculus.

The Enterprise warp engines are the ultimate prize of the repair effort: offline or unreachable until Data reseats chips and the Bridge receives the command to engage, they provide the ship with the acceleration necessary to escape the debris field once control is restored.

The impulse engines are invoked as the practical means to counteract the ship's uncontrolled motion: Picard orders 'reverse impulse' and Geordi initiates the sequence, using propulsion to provide temporary counter-thrust and stabilization in lieu of functioning dampeners.

The USS Enterprise impulse engines execute an emergency reverse-thrust sequence that produces the sudden stabilization. Functionally they convert onboard power into counter-thrust; narratively they act as the instrument that interrupts motion and reveals the problem is not purely passive failure but a controllable, temporally-limited intervention.

The Enterprise's impulse engines fail mid-crisis; Geordi attempts manual restart at the helm before announcing they are down, turning the propulsion system into the immediate technical obstacle that forces him back to engineering.

The impulse engine assembly serves as the immediate casualty of the takeover: impulse thrust fails mid‑maneuver, Geordi's attempts to restart the engines fail, and the engines' incapacity forces tactical retreat to engineering and escalates the crisis urgency.

The Enterprise impulse engines deliver the single microsecond 'blast' ordered by Picard to overcome the trap's inertia. They flare to life, provide the crucial shove, and are deliberately shut down immediately afterward so the ship can drift and be guided by manual thrusters and gravity.

The USS Enterprise impulse engines are pushed above safety thresholds to supply additional thrust and power for the tractor-beam maneuver; their output flares visibly and contributes to the ship's thermal and safety alarms.

The impulse engine assemblies are being overdriven to provide supplemental thrust; alarms indicate they are exceeding safety margins and may automatically shut down, which threatens the entire attempt to change the moon's orbit.

The Enterprise‑C's impulse engines are the subject of Riker's immediate concern; he reports no ready condition and requests La Forge's assessment, establishing propulsion as a critical failing system that constrains tactical options.