How often does the warp core REALLY fail to eject?

Honestly I thought it was a good 90% of the time that the manual ejection system would somehow be offline.

[RyansEdits]

Now, one could argue that the Lower Decks tiny core ejection should only count as a fraction. But it's not about the size of the warp core in the ship. It's about the size of the warp core in your heart.

[brianlindstrand]

"Eject the core!"

"We can't sir, the budget won't allow it!"

[Murarius]

Not sure if Picard saying "No" counts as an ejection failure...

[nullsmack]

A couple of times they tell the computer to eject the core without even offering authorization and I think of the number of times Alexa has misunderstood me. Imagine trying to order dinner from the replicator and *foop* there goes the warp core.

[LeoLionxyzed]

I call shenanigans on the Abrams Move ejection counting as 4: that is one instance of ejecting the warp core(s), meaning the ejection system as a whole was working as intended.

[benjennium]

I am shocked -- SHOCKED that it was successful more often than it wasn't.

Thank you for settling the score.

[OuttaMyMind]

I remember being stunned on that episode of Voyager that a warp core was actually ejected. I felt it was almost a Starfleet myth that it was even possible!

[LuisHCVogt]

I like how voyager's core is twice as tall as the ship is thick

[Orcinusx]

#3 does not count, it was a simulation. Futher, you forgot to count Riker telling the Romulan to eject the core as a success.

[sherpajones]

In the holodeck simulation, Troi is not trying to eject the warp core, she is trying to eject an antimatter pod with a failing containment unit.

[RurouniKalainGaming]

The use of Cause and Effect at the end made me smile, loool. I was going to argue about Kelvin Timeline cores getting more than one, bu this evens things out. Fair enough, well done. 😂👍

Edit two years later. Lol 2:10 Purple means it's not the same scene right? xD

[Volantredx]

It's amazing that they have an emergency system that, in an emergency, might not work due to power failures.

[danielloeb]

I don't think Picard deciding not to eject the core counts as a failure.

[poisonhemlock]

Starfleet's safety standards are deplorable. Even one ejection failure is unacceptable, potentially putting thousands of lives in jeopardy, and to see this many failures on only a small few ships suggests this is a common occurrence throughout the fleet. No efforts are ever seen to improve the warp core ejection systems, or even investigate the cause of the failures. And most such incidents go unreported, one presumes, since most of the people who experience it are quickly vaporized.

[hadorstapa]

Did that Romulan core ejection not count for some reason? Neither successes nor failures went up.

[Stephen_The_Waxing_Lyricist]

In a similar vein, I wonder how many times switching to manual control has actually worked?

[wanderinghistorian]

For those saying the Romulan core ejection didn't count - I think that's the point. The Romulans use an artificial singularity instead of a warp core. I think Ryan was making a subtle nerd joke.

[kaitlyn__L]

Hey, that one from the episode where they’re melty dying metal people was a success! They did it to drop out of warp and they did. And then dropping out of warp destroyed them.

[martino]

To be fair: a few of those failed ejections concerned the antimatter pods, which are different from the warp core. Still not a good thing if they fail to eject when loosing magnetic containment obviously.

Also one of the Voyager ones was technically a dream, and the Troi one a simulation that was specifically designed to fail.

[porlob]

Wow, this video is UP. TO. DATE. Less than a week since the most recent ejection.