Starfleet. Warp drive. Technology. Part. 1 Warp engines are the bulky units found, in many cases, in a starship's nacelle. Surce: TNG: "New Ground". 24th century Federation warp engines are fuelled by the reaction of matter (deuterium) and antimatter (antideuterium), mediated through an assembly of dilithium crystals, which were non-reactive with antimatter when subjected to high-frequency electromagnetic fields. This reaction produces a highly energetic plasma, called electro-plasma or warp pla