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[Star Trek] Do the Enterprise and similar technology use some form of electricity?

I understand they use an anti-matter/matter mix to create energy in order to power their ship, but does this energy come in form of high voltage electricity? If not, what is it exactly? Is it only on Starships? Did the Kirk era Enterprise use a different form? Did Voyager?
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Not as we do today. They use a high energy plasma conduit system. That's why the consoles explode so easily. There is a crippling copper shortage in the future. That's why the Ferengi are so confused upon finding the Federation comm badges use gold instead and assumed it was just jewelry. They just don't have access to what the Ferengi see as a more common and more effective material.