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Originally posted by: mchammer187
Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Just FYI.
The unit Warp is actually this;

Warp x= c^x
where c = speed of light.
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i am pretty sure it is faster than that

cuz even at warp 10 they would take a year to travel to something 10 light years away

IIRC in Voyager they were something like 200,000 light years way from the alpha quadrant

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didnt see the ^

i am retarded
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In the Star Trek universe, warp 10 is impossible to attain. There's one TNG episode where some time thingy brought the Enterprise from the future back and it had 3 nacells and could travel faster than warp 10, but everything else in the Star Trek universe that ever talks about warp never talks about going over warp 10 and I vaguely remember reading somewhere that warp 10 was an impossibility.
 
Originally posted by: RyanSengara
Originally posted by: M3
In star trek, When in warp if you fire a photon torpedo. How does the torpedo stay on warp after it leaves your warp field?
I know there are episodes where they fir forward torpedos at warp and they stayed in warp.
So torpedos have there own warp engines?
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Momentum with no friction. think about it.
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Nope. I don't think you understand much about FTL travel in space operas.
 
Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: mchammer187
Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Just FYI.
The unit Warp is actually this;

Warp x= c^x
where c = speed of light.
Click to expand...

i am pretty sure it is faster than that

cuz even at warp 10 they would take a year to travel to something 10 light years away

IIRC in Voyager they were something like 200,000 light years way from the alpha quadrant

edit nm


didnt see the ^

i am retarded
Click to expand...

In the Star Trek universe, warp 10 is impossible to attain. There's one TNG episode where some time thingy brought the Enterprise from the future back and it had 3 nacells and could travel faster than warp 10, but everything else in the Star Trek universe that ever talks about warp never talks about going over warp 10 and I vaguely remember reading somewhere that warp 10 was an impossibility.
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Wasn't voyager hurdled across the universe at warp 11?
 
Everyone so far has been at least a little bit wrong. Here's the correct answer, courtisy of The Next Generation's Technical Manual

Answer

Peace,
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Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: mchammer187
Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Just FYI.
The unit Warp is actually this;

Warp x= c^x
where c = speed of light.
Click to expand...

i am pretty sure it is faster than that

cuz even at warp 10 they would take a year to travel to something 10 light years away

IIRC in Voyager they were something like 200,000 light years way from the alpha quadrant

edit nm


didnt see the ^

i am retarded
Click to expand...

In the Star Trek universe, warp 10 is impossible to attain. There's one TNG episode where some time thingy brought the Enterprise from the future back and it had 3 nacells and could travel faster than warp 10, but everything else in the Star Trek universe that ever talks about warp never talks about going over warp 10 and I vaguely remember reading somewhere that warp 10 was an impossibility.
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IIRC in star trek: first contact

picard orders them to go to earth at warp 10 when the borg begin attacking

i could be wrong but i am fairly sure (70%) it was warp 10
 
IIRC in star trek: first contact picard orders them to go to earth at warp 10 when the borg begin attacking
i could be wrong but i am fairly sure (70%) it was warp 10
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He orders the ship to maximum warp (something like 9.6). To my memory, the Warp 10 barrier is never touched in TNG (or their movies). Even when flung across the galaxy by someone like Q, Enterprise stayed in the high 9's while still going well faster than a normal top speed thanks to the expodential scale.

I am such a geek
 
Originally posted by: mchammer187
Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: mchammer187
Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Just FYI.
The unit Warp is actually this;

Warp x= c^x
where c = speed of light.
Click to expand...

i am pretty sure it is faster than that

cuz even at warp 10 they would take a year to travel to something 10 light years away

IIRC in Voyager they were something like 200,000 light years way from the alpha quadrant

edit nm


didnt see the ^

i am retarded
Click to expand...

In the Star Trek universe, warp 10 is impossible to attain. There's one TNG episode where some time thingy brought the Enterprise from the future back and it had 3 nacells and could travel faster than warp 10, but everything else in the Star Trek universe that ever talks about warp never talks about going over warp 10 and I vaguely remember reading somewhere that warp 10 was an impossibility.
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IIRC in star trek: first contact

picard orders them to go to earth at warp 10 when the borg begin attacking

i could be wrong but i am fairly sure (70%) it was warp 10
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there was an episode in TOS where the engine controls went to crap and they they hit something like 12
 
laser's can't even penetrate the navigational shields of the enterprise. i forgot what episode they said that, maybe the episode where geordi got kidnapped by those retarded aliens.
 
Originally posted by: Retro2001
IIRC in star trek: first contact picard orders them to go to earth at warp 10 when the borg begin attacking
i could be wrong but i am fairly sure (70%) it was warp 10
Click to expand...

He orders the ship to maximum warp (something like 9.6). To my memory, the Warp 10 barrier is never touched in TNG (or their movies). Even when flung across the galaxy by someone like Q, Enterprise stayed in the high 9's while still going well faster than a normal top speed thanks to the expodential scale.

I am such a geek
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i wish i had the movie but it really is something that sticks out in my mind i remember from seeing it
 
Originally posted by: Retro2001
IIRC in star trek: first contact picard orders them to go to earth at warp 10 when the borg begin attacking
i could be wrong but i am fairly sure (70%) it was warp 10
Click to expand...

He orders the ship to maximum warp (something like 9.6). To my memory, the Warp 10 barrier is never touched in TNG (or their movies). Even when flung across the galaxy by someone like Q, Enterprise stayed in the high 9's while still going well faster than a normal top speed thanks to the expodential scale.

I am such a geek
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Bingo. It takes twice as much energy to go from point a to point b at warp 2 as it does at warp 1. Likewise, it takes twice as much energy to go from point a to point b at warp 3 as it does at warp 2, and so on. IIRC, there's some energy limitation near warp 10 that significantly decreases the life of the warp core and the nacells.
 
Bingo. It takes twice as much energy to go from point a to point b at warp 2 as it does at warp 1. Likewise, it takes twice as much energy to go from point a to point b at warp 3 as it does at warp 2, and so on. IIRC, there's some energy limitation near warp 10 that significantly decreases the life of the warp core and the nacells.
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Exactly.

I've apparently spent way the hell to much time and energy remembering this stuff. Meh.

 
Originally posted by: Retro2001
Bingo. It takes twice as much energy to go from point a to point b at warp 2 as it does at warp 1. Likewise, it takes twice as much energy to go from point a to point b at warp 3 as it does at warp 2, and so on. IIRC, there's some energy limitation near warp 10 that significantly decreases the life of the warp core and the nacells.
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Exactly.

I've apparently spent way the hell to much time and energy remembering this stuff. Meh.
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:beer: Remember, you're only a true nerd if you've never had a girlfriend.
 
Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: mchammer187
Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Just FYI.
The unit Warp is actually this;

Warp x= c^x
where c = speed of light.
Click to expand...

i am pretty sure it is faster than that

cuz even at warp 10 they would take a year to travel to something 10 light years away

IIRC in Voyager they were something like 200,000 light years way from the alpha quadrant

edit nm


didnt see the ^

i am retarded
Click to expand...

In the Star Trek universe, warp 10 is impossible to attain. There's one TNG episode where some time thingy brought the Enterprise from the future back and it had 3 nacells and could travel faster than warp 10, but everything else in the Star Trek universe that ever talks about warp never talks about going over warp 10 and I vaguely remember reading somewhere that warp 10 was an impossibility.
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Not quite true. In TNG the traveler guy had them go so fast they left the universe! In TOS they also went past 10. They also might have even went faster than 10 in the TNG warp wave bs episode. Warp 10 is supposed to be a technical limit to the warp drive, but can be convienently shattered for dramatic effect.

Warp speed used to be based on simulating a black hole that warps the space between two points so that the distance traveled is less. It had nothing really to do with physically traveling faster than light. Space is distorted so the distance traveled is less, getting you there faster. A torpedo fired in this state should travel at its normal speed relative to the ship it was fired from. From there you would think that there would be some sling shot like effect if the field was disrupted, but since it wasn't traveling faster than normal to begin with the speed should be normal.

But as TNG progressed, the physics of the Star Trek Universe changed from week to week. So there is no wrong answer in TNG+.
 
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