"The only good warp core is an ejected warp core."

I just gotta say that I appreciate that SNW kept the basic design of TOS and made it look more realistic to modern eyes. It is the same ship, after all.

Voyager's warp core? Nah, that's not my favourite at all. My favourite warp core is from the Enterprise E.

... Wait...

Always TNG/Ent-D.

Voyager had some cool design choices though. Not specific to the warp core/Engineering. Just overall. Such a well designed ship. Maybe a little "cool for cool's sake" but I was a teenager when it started airing and I liked it. Still do.

Janeway had the best ready room. Huge windows and giant comfy couch.
- Did Kirk and Sisko have ready rooms? I remember they had private quarters (they all did). Picard's was just an office.
Never understood why voyager's nacelles moved before warping. Seems purely aesthetic with no use other than to distinguish it.
- In a documentary with writers who worked with Roddenberry they said it was his design choice for all ships. Apparently warp nacelles are supposed to have 40% empty space between them for the warp field to generate. In Voyager they rotated up to exit the plane of the ship.
- Basically that. It made for good TV.
  Now I'm wondering if Discovery needed to spin or if that was more of the same.
- In canon, it was described as an implementation of “variable warp geometry”.

Anything pre nu-trek is nice, after that the plot was lost on everything including designs so nope.

Best one? TNG, always, though voyager was quite nice too, very "I can see myself working here" on both

Voyager does have one of the best engineering play sets, but the hum of the D is easily the most comforting.

I humbly submit myself for this poll.

Pure word association for warp core, the image in my mind is TNG's Enterprise-D

Even as a kid that grew up with Voyager, the first thing that comes to mind is the shot of Picard pointing to the smiley face he drew in the smoke/fog/plasma/whatever as the vote was staying to explode while time was (close to) frozen. Or maybe it was frozen, it's been a long time since I saw that episode.

Time was moving so slow that only Data could see the warp core breach in motion.

The D has the best warp core. Here is an hour of soothing sounds of the D:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUgj5gGkrFw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oobIAEhXuU
Unrelated to warp cores (agree on the D), here is 8 hours of social-comforting ambience courtesy of Voyager's mess hall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmpKpmup95w

D is my home

D, defiant and voyager all look like tardis consoles and it's crazy I never realized that until this picture.

Or the Doctor is just a big Star Trek fan, so all their consoles look like warp engines.
- That seems right, I could see the doctor having a great time troubleshooting an issue with the warp engine waving his sonic screwdriver around like a wand trying to fix things.

Special mention to Voyager, specifically having an entire spare warp core on board, tucked away in the bowels of the ship with no explanation for this given. No explanation especially given as to how the hell it's supposed to be relocated and installed. Maybe with tractor beams or something, who knows.

If the crew could have managed to remember this, it would have made S04E03 a lot shorter.

Well, they can't just leave an unstable warp core floating around in one of the weird sections of space. People are willing to risk their lives over just some of the plasma. They were close enough to retrieve it, also the Klingon engineer was having a bad day. Crew was just helping her save face. Dumping a warp core is like separating the saucer; only to be done if necessary.
- Sure, but slapping the spare in there so the ship could be fully capable and ready to retrieve the thing, even if only to blow it up, would have been significantly smarter than sending out the two lovebirds in a dinky shuttle. And probably a damn sight faster, too.
Use emergency power to transport it into place? But yeah... plot reasons likely prevented its use.
- Probably it’s a placeholder for where a second one could be kept but it was not equipped at the time.
  Could be covered in universe with someone complaining that the backup core wasn’t installed yet.

voyager used transwarp coil once, and enhanced like several other times. the fake copy(fdemony planet) had the enhanced warp drive higher warp sustained longer i believe, and they modified for quatum slipstream later on. i dont believe any of the other series modified thier warp core as much as voyager did.

I actually like the ENT one, having it on it's side in a housing makes it feel more "engine-y" I guess.

Feels right. Just too bad it was before they'd developed an ejection protocol.

Warp core? I've been calling it the intermix chamber! Oh, why didn't anyone tell me I've been making an ass of myself!

- I'm the X is the saddest mathematical ballad ever.

I see a lack of Enterprise E's warp core. It's a mixture between the Voyager layout and the Enterprise D layout

There's a lot of Enterprises already on display, but fair is fair.
Also omitted the Kelvin core, for, reasons.

All I know is that there’s a disturbing amount of weapons tests, alien artifacts, engineering experiments happening immediately out of frame in every image.

I think I actually prefer the Ritos; it takes what’s good about the TNG warp core and makes it feel a bit more spacious without turning the ship into a Tardis - looking at you, SNW Enterprise warp core and DISCO turbolifts!

EDIT: Tardis in the sense it’s bigger on the inside - I think wibbly wobbly timey wimey has always been a given in Starfleet.

Bcs it feels the least contemporary, and the most (along with TNG?) like it was designed & built with the (design & manufacture) tech presented in the shows. Imho.

Voyager.

and regards to the pic: Last chance to be a hero Doctor, get going!
\ I loved that episode

Thanks for noticing. One of my favorite episodes.
- Tuvok, prepare the photonic cannon!
  Its one of my favourite as well; come to think of it, most of my favourites are centered around the Doctor.
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  Tenor Tinker, Doctor Spy
  Projections
  Life Line
  Critical Care

D for sound, NX-01 for style

Bah! Feh! You kids and your fancy plastic doodads and thingamajigs all over the place. High-falutin’ shapes and colors!

MY trek’s warp core is several pieces of scrap lumber carefully stapled to the wall and lit with a single 40 watt red bulb! As nature intended! And we liked it that way! We loved it!