Star Trek & Tachyons

Tachyons in Star Trek: Temporal Weapons & Cloaking Fields

The pattern from the Marvel piece holds up in Star Trek too — tachyons turn up constantly across the franchise, from temporal anomalies to full detection systems built specifically to catch tachyon-cloaked ships. That last part lines up directly with what Cobra has said about how certain ships stay hidden, which is where this one gets interesting.

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Janeway & the Tachyon Burst

In one Voyager episode, Captain Janeway is trapped inside an illusion created by an alien and becomes convinced she's caught in a temporal anomaly. Believing that, she tries firing a tachyon burst to break it apart.

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Transwarp Conduits

A transwarp conduit — also called a transwarp corridor or tunnel — is described as an artificial energy passage running through a separate layer of subspace known as transwarp space.

Source: Memory Alpha — Tachyon

Related concepts in Star Trek canon:

Cloaking With Tachyons

A tachyon detection grid works by having several ships or outposts transmit tachyon beams to each other, building a tachyon field between them. A cloaked ship trying to pass through that field disturbs it enough to reveal its position. Starfleet's first real-world use of the technique came in 2368, when a task force led by the Enterprise-D used a tachyon grid to catch a Romulan convoy trying to slip through Klingon territory.

Source: The Farthest Star Wiki — Tachyon Detection Grid

Cobra has made a similar claim about real ships — that Confederation vessels use tachyons for cloaking as well:

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Per a report dated March 31, 2015, every Light-forces ship stationed inside our solar system stays hidden behind a tachyon membrane, specifically so nothing on the surface can pick it up.

Original quote via 2012portal.blogspot.com, March 31, 2015

Source: tachyonmap — Cobra Intel Posts

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How a Mothership Stays Hidden From Remote Viewers

Cobra describes the mothership's tachyon membrane as working on every plane of existence, not just the physical one. Any incoming energy that reaches the membrane isn't blocked so much as redirected — it gets carried straight through to the other side — which is what keeps the ship undetectable, even to remote viewers.

Source: tachyonmap — Cobra Interview Quotes on Tachyons

Line them up and the overlap is direct: Starfleet builds tachyon fields specifically to unmask cloaked ships, and Cobra describes real cloaked ships relying on a tachyon membrane to avoid exactly that kind of detection. Fiction keeps reaching for the same particle to solve the same problem — staying hidden from a scan.

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