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Published on Feb 24, 2018 ALON - Transparent Aluminum - is a ceramic composed of Aluminium, Oxygen and Nitrogen. Transparent Aluminum, was once pure science fiction, a technical term used in a Star Trek Movie from the 80’s.

In the movie Star Trek 4 The Voyage Home, Captain Kirk and his team, go back in time to acquire 2 whales from the past and transport them back to the future. Scotty needed some materials to make a holding tank for whales on his ship, but had no money to pay for the materials.

So Scotty uses his knowledge of 23 third century technology and the manufacturers computer and programs in, how to make the Transparent Aluminum Molecule.

Transparent Aluminum or Aluminum Oxynitride, also known as ALON, is much stronger than Standard Glass and over time will become cheaper to make, but until then will most likely be used for NASA & the Military

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DduO1fNzV4w

Published on Feb 24, 2018 ALON - Transparent Aluminum - is a ceramic composed of Aluminium, Oxygen and Nitrogen. Transparent Aluminum, was once pure science fiction, a technical term used in a Star Trek Movie from the 80’s. In the movie Star Trek 4 The Voyage Home, Captain Kirk and his team, go back in time to acquire 2 whales from the past and transport them back to the future. Scotty needed some materials to make a holding tank for whales on his ship, but had no money to pay for the materials. So Scotty uses his knowledge of 23 third century technology and the manufacturers computer and programs in, how to make the Transparent Aluminum Molecule. Transparent Aluminum or Aluminum Oxynitride, also known as ALON, is much stronger than Standard Glass and over time will become cheaper to make, but until then will most likely be used for NASA & the Military https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DduO1fNzV4w

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[–] • 10 pts 4y (edited 4y)

They never explain why it had to be transparent just to transport whales, do they?

[–] • 5 pts 4y

IT JUST HAD TO BE, damn it!

[–] • 2 pts 4y

They pollute the fuck outta the timeline too. Why not just give them warp technology while they're at it? Stupit movie.

[–] • 1 pt 4y

"How do we know he didn't invent the thing anyway?"

[–] • 4 pts 4y

Yeah they could've just used a steel box but the need for transparent aluminum storyline is my favorite part of the movie so dont question it

[–] • 2 pts 4y (edited 4y)

To make sure they weren't planning on escaping. The previous time it happened, the improbability drive snatched one (making the lone one pointless for reproduction, the entire reason they were there), and causing it to fall to its death from a several mile high altitude with a potted petunia. The whale didn't understand it, but the petunia just thought " oh no, not again".

Basically, They needed to make sure they were there to make the jump, and no wifi cameras were available with the ancient wifi6/802.11ax standard to interface.

[–] • 0 pt 4y

Isn't improbability drive Hitchhiker?

[–] • 1 pt 4y (edited 4y)

I think that's what Luke said. Something about the force .

[–] • 1 pt 4y

it wasn't used to transport the whales...Scotty gave the owner of that company the formula for transparent aluminum in trade for plexiglass (or whatever) they had in stock

[–] • 1 pt 4y

I believe that they did, as Scotty and the crew needed materials, but they did not have any money so they had to barter technology to get what they needed, and transparent aluminum was the most "whiz-bang", jaw-dropping technology that Scotty could quickly whip up to dazzle the materials out of the 20th century factory.

Though, looking at the script, Scotty mentions transparent aluminum before that, and seemingly becomes fixated upon it. Without rewatching the film, does Scotty actually use transparent aluminum on the ship?

When Scotty shows the technology to the 20th century factory owner, he says it will take him years to figure out the "matrix" that Scotty has demonstrated, and the guy says that 20th century polymers could make the aquarium easy-peasy, the only caveat is that the walls would have to be 6" thick, instead of 1".

[–] • 1 pt 4y

but they did not have any money

Why didn't they just piss away the future of the Federation by getting in debt to the space-jews aka Ferengi.

[–] • 0 pt 4y

I wonder why they couldn't have just cruised over to an asteroid and beamed aboard some gold, or just beamed unmined gold out of the Earth.

Also, I was a bit confused as to why Kirk and crew were treating money as an "alien" idea as they had money in TOS, including a drawn-out haggling scene involving Uhura & Chekov in The Trouble with Tribbles , and Bones had just been using money in Star Trek III.

(STIII being a better film than the yugely overrated Star Trek IV: Save the Whales)