Honestly, I don't see Starfleet keeping them... perhaps Section 31... but not Starfleet.

In any case, the Admiralty here in HF have declared them off limits, and so we won't be using them anytime soon.

Even if we said that Starfleet was developing Transphasic torpedoes (which I'm not currently taking a stance on) they would not put them on every ship. Plus, if it were to become common knowledge that the Federation even KNOWS about this technology, an arms race gets started and eventually, if we take it to the logical conclusion, a defense mechanism would be developed (being able to phase a whole starship with or without cloaking it) which would render them useless.

At any rate, at the current time we're not going near the issue in Horizon Fleet, as I stated originally, for dramatic reasons. If you make it so that any ship can take out a Borg cube, there's no reason to sim anymore.

What are the general thoughts on new technology?

Just that the last canon reference (and last reference in our time line importantly) was Nemesis which was set in 2379, we're now in 2384/5 right? How long before we need to start thinking about new technology? Not necessarily talking super mega death rays or ultramegatransslipstreamdrive but things like tricorders, phasers, commbadges and even uniforms?

Was just wondering what we all believe the average lifespan of those sort of things would be before we'd have to break from canon?

Well, things like tricorders and combadges would be getting updated regularly... but they would stay essentially the same and not give us any significant advantage.

As far as uniforms go... in my opinion, whenever a new design comes out that seems to fit and there are many styles available for photos, then we could probably use them. Of course, we've only had about four or five episodes with future uniforms and most of them don't agree with each other.

For the tricorders, commbadges, and such, mister Forest is correct. Those undergo continual upgrades as the technology improves and you could have PADDs, for example, of varying specifications operating side by side on the same ship.

In regards to the uniforms, the commbadge design apparently changes in roughly 5 years from our current time frame... the uniform designs seemingly change to the "All Good Things"/"Endgame" style somewhere around 5 years after that.

Ship Technology we'll be playing by ear. Certainly the Photon Torpedoes currently in use would likely be a Mark IX, as opposed to the Mark VIII that was in common use 4 years ago (don't quote me on the designations, I'm just using examples) so the yield would have likely increased a few isotons.

Phasers (at least the ship-mounted ones) seem to take a longer development cycle. The Galaxy uses a Type X array, which became the standard for most larger ships... until the Sovereign, roughly 10 years later... and that was still not a new design, as the Type XII had been used on starbases for awhile before being adapted to ship use. So, a brand new base design might have a, I don't know, Type XV phaser array which will make its way onto capital ship designs in 10 to 15 years.

As far as the phasing technology... we may revisit that in a few years, but we'll assume incremental progress on existing technologies for the near future.

It should be noted that torpedoes launched in ST are detenation devices with onboard equipment similar to the probe. A phase cloak must have been added to this onboard equipment. Meaning, they increased alot of technology to reduce the size, much like nano-technology researchers claim thier work will one day do to manufacturing.

It also means that the phase cloak was now allowed to be utilized by the federation despite previous Romulan Treaties... possibly becuase of Dominion wars and Reman Uprising.

One thing to consider is the dispenceability of the equipment such that the cloak would be on a torpedo: Discarding of that kind of technology (becuase its going to explode) must mean that either it was deemed appropiate or necessary or the means for producing it became less labor intensive or automated. We look at "Enterprise" and the number of torpedoes housed on the NX-O1 and then the Photon Torpedo Upgrade.