Would you trade me ? <| sep |> From what I ' ve read , Humans were not really given all that much technology from the Vulcans . My understanding was that the Vulcans gave humans just enough to allow them to become space faring The Warp Drive from the Pheonix wasn ' t enough to allow humans to start building Warp Ships capable of interstellar travel . After that initial boost in tech , I ' ve always thought that Humans pretty much took it from there . It ' s worth noting that the Vulcan design was eventually phased out in favor of the Cochrane Warp Drive . It is assumed this was because the Cochrane design was more efficient , or somehow better there ' s more to a Warp Drive than its maximum speed . It ' s possible the Cochrane design simply takes less energy to achieve equivalent warp bubbles to the Vulcan design .