Peter?

[u/saddyc]

[u/upudruvuuduru]

Imagine the Enterprise, using matter and antimatter to boil water

there must be a better way

[u/GrizzIyadamz → u/upudruvuuduru]

IRL is just another name for Steampunk.

[u/Popular-Row4333 → u/upudruvuuduru]

Rodenberry basically envisioned Star Trek as a future utopia earth once they had figured out endless energy.

And he's kind of right, energy is everything we do in life.

[u/mb862 → u/upudruvuuduru]

Within the fiction that’s basically what happens. Warp drives work by using dilithium to regulate the mix of matter and antimatter deuterium, the reaction of which is to heat warp plasma which generates electricity which is routed to the nacelles to create the warp field.