We do have warp drives, but they function more like the ones you see in Star Trek. It's not the Immaterium in the same sense as in Warhammer 40k.
Psychic powers, though...
Judging from the amount of my forum badges, yes, yes I am. However any 40k influence in my paradox game makes me love it even more.
Man, if we could get a cameo from the Orz from Star Control 2 I would be a real *happy camper*. There would be much *dancing*.
With the exception of the new age psychic crap star trek is actualy fairly true to how physics work. A lot more true than any other sci-fi series I've ever seen. So they picked up some tropes that were already painfully overused the in the genre already and perhaps they shouldn't but een troi is done is a plausible manner, her species communicate that way, she can read others but sicne they lack the faculties needed to properly transmit their thoughts she's limited to emotional intuition. It's the diffrence between hearing someone speak and listening to how they breathe and drawing conclusions from that Now troi had many flaws but that wasn't the chief one.
Actually Troi communicate telepathically with other betaziods, for an example her mother, as if she were full betazoid. Also with repeated contact she can communicate fully with others too for an example riker. Yes her being half betazoid is part of it too, but even full betazoids as the guy seen in the drumhead can't read non betazoids like hearing a person speak. They can tell if someone's lying and emotional states and that's about it. Unless you claim that Klingon's and half romulans are amongst those species that are immune. The only betazoid that claim they can read other fully is Lwaxana Troi, and quite frankly she's a few fries short of a happy meal.
