That’s assuming they actually use a Star Trek style warp drive when we ALL know they are actually using Navigators to jump into the Immaterium.
If immaterium is real, we have a much bigger problems than inability to detect xeno’s warp drives.
Whatever. Just track their warp signatures.
Scientists: We’ve been trying to reach you about your spaceship’s extended warranty…
just look for hyper evolved salamanders, that’s what happened in voyagers warp experiment gone wrong
It did not. That never happened. No one has ever gone beyond Warp 10. It’s infinite speed. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
Then why did a hologram of Janeway tell a bunch of kids she once was a salamander?
You’d lie to kids about evolving into a salamander and having sex with your former flight control officer who is also now a salamander and having little salamander babies after traveling faster than infinitely fast if you could too. Don’t say you wouldn’t.
Damn it. I know I would.
Leave them on a planet? They sure did.
Okay, but what did a HOLOGRAM have this knowledge?
Did you know that HOLOGRAM is an anagram for GLAM HOOR?
Don’t you dare disrespect Hologram Janeway! /s
But please don’t.
EDIT: Just to be clear my tone is the sarcasm.
I propose detecting atmospheric anomalies induced by their infinite improbability drives.
Such as falling whales?
Pretty hard to detect. But… probably easier than finding the petunias I guess.
Not again…
As long as we can still go to The Restaurant the End of the Universe, I’m cool with that.
Don’t forget to polarize the sensors.
If that doesn’t work then reverse the polarity.
Bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish.
We need to just work on making our own. Then the Vulcans will find us.
So civilizations travelling at ludicrous speed won’t be discovered, so sad
Sure, sure, you think looking for an intermix chamber of antimatter and matter that is not 1:1 is easy. What happens if they are simply leaking plasma from their nacelles? Or what if the ship is trying to steal your tech by luring an engineer onboard to repair “damaged” systems?
Or what if their warp drive uses an artificial singularity?
You seem to think that they are saying they can find any alien ship with any sort of technology. They aren’t. They are saying that if an alien ship has this specific type of theorized warp drive technology and it fails, then we know how we would be able to detect that.
