Absolutely. And it makes sense because hand your seen how unreliable their engine power is? Scotty is always bitching about not having more power.

So dilithum crystal's is just Budweiser left in the freezer too long. The Trek Lore just gets more odd every day

Tbf, I more buy into matter/antimatter mixing in these huge metal containers contained within a giant industrial space than doing it in a small box inside the cozy carpeted Engineering Den. But a cozy Den did allow for fun speculation about what tech made matter annihilation in a small box feasible.

Clearly carpets are the tech of the future and we need to invest in Carpet stonks.