Starfleet Academy Courses: Basic Warp Design. Propulsion technology: Inertial damping system: For example: In 2155, while using a comet as camouflage to infiltrate John Frederick Paxton's base on Mars, Travis Mayweather disabled the inertial dampers of the shuttlepod, causing it to maintain an erratic flight path to better resemble a chunk of the comet. This caused Malcolm Reed some distress, as he had a history of gastrointestinal problems. Consult: ENT: "Terra Prime". Star Trek Starfleet Comma