Silverbullet wrote:Aqaurius. I have always taken the position that Trip had a very good University level education. He worked on Warp Drives he had to understand a lot of things other than the mechanics of an Engine working.
He would need to know higher mathematics, quantum Physics, and mechanics. Relativity, Newtonian Physics. Those would be essential to an engine that warps space and Time.
That doesn't preclude Starfleet from giving him that training themselves, or sending him somewhere to get it.