Why don't they always use the highest warp in Star Trek?

[DVad3r]

Watching TNG, and I'm wondering, why don't they always use the highest warp speed? These guys are like warp 2, warp 3, why not just warp 8 or 9 all the time and be done with it? The Enterprise doesn't run out of juice, even at high warps no?

 

[shortylickens]

For they same reason they never have seatbelts: Action, suspense, danger.

 

[rudeguy]

reserving a spot in an epic nerd thread

 

[olds]

Fuel conservation.

 

[lxskllr]

Wear and tear on parts. That would be like burying your accelerator every time you got in the car.

 

[0roo0roo]

warp scale changes over the series's...
its convoluted.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Dilithium crystals ain't cheap.

 

[joesmoke]

i just picard maneuvered yo bitchass!

 

[ViRGE]

Is this factoring in the dumb Warp 5 speed limit that they imposed in the series, and the writers promptly ignored?

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Force_of_Nature_%28episode)
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Speed_limit

 

[eldorado99]

Yeah it was something as lame as global warming, but for the universe, universal warming. I didn't like that episode.

 

[silverpig]

Prolly the same reason you don't run everywhere.

Fatty.

 

[Gothgar]

Yeah it was something as lame as global warming, but for the universe, universal warming. I didn't like that episode.

what the fuck, are you serious?

 

[shortylickens]

what the fuck, are you serious?

No, I think he is.
I seem to recall an episode where they discussed their "warp trail" and how it fucked up the space time continuum and caused problems all over the galaxy. They were supposed to be careful when and how they used warp speed.

 

[joesmoke]

what the fuck, are you serious?

this sounds familiar. wasnt there some anti-warp group that did warp 11 to prove a point and ripped some gap in the STC... yada yada yada?

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

Wear and tear on parts. That would be like burying your accelerator every time you got in the car.

Wait...you guys don't do that?

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

*sigh*

 

[pray4mojo]

this sounds familiar. wasnt there some anti-warp group that did warp 11 to prove a point and ripped some gap in the STC... yada yada yada?

wtf they did warp 11? they did 10 in voyager and everyone turned into babies

 

[techs]

No, I think he is.
I seem to recall an episode where they discussed their "warp trail" and how it fucked up the space time continuum and caused problems all over the galaxy. They were supposed to be careful when and how they used warp speed.

this sounds familiar. wasnt there some anti-warp group that did warp 11 to prove a point and ripped some gap in the STC... yada yada yada?

You're probably thinking of the TNG episode where a certain area of space was suseptible to being damaged by warp speed. The inhabitants eventually proved it to Picard and now the Federation avoids using warp speed there.

 

[IronWing]

Because "She's breaking apart, Captain, she just can't take it anymore!" That's why.

 

[techs]

Have you SEEN what those female crew members were wearing on the original series?

I would be in no hurry to get anywhere.
Paging yeoman Rand.

 

[shortylickens]

Have you SEEN what those female crew members were wearing on the original series?

I would be in no hurry to get anywhere.
Paging yeoman Rand.

Dont forget about the green women.

 

[sandorski]

To avoid this

 

[Paratus]

Why don't they go to a faster warp?

I don't know for TNG but for the TOS it's obviously because:

"I haven't got the powa Captain!"

 

[Newbian]

Warp speed to never loosing your virginity captain!!!