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

[Zee]

why don't voltron or power rangers ever just immediately combine to the big robot from the start and immediately kick some ass?

 

[SSSnail]

why don't voltron or power rangers ever just immediately combine to the big robot from the start and immediately kick some ass?

Same reason Chinese Kungfu heroes never use their super uber secret move in the beginning of the fight and always after they've been beaten up pretty badly that they pull out the secret Touch of Death...

 

[Newbian]

Same reason Chinese Kungfu heroes never use their super uber secret move in the beginning of the fight and always after they've been beaten up pretty badly that they pull out the secret Touch of Death...

They get turned on by pain? :\

 

[Miramonti]

Because they are Italian?

edit: n/m, I read wop.

 

[Fayd]

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

yeah, but the specs for the last gen enterprise used in the last episode of TNG goes up to warp 14.

star trek plot continuity = not that good...

 

[Fayd]

Same reason Chinese Kungfu heroes never use their super uber secret move in the beginning of the fight and always after they've been beaten up pretty badly that they pull out the secret Touch of Death...

action powerups! you can't tell a story without them!


well you can, but it takes more effort on the storyteller...

 

[silverpig]

why don't voltron or power rangers ever just immediately combine to the big robot from the start and immediately kick some ass?

That always pissed me off too.

Oh there's a bunch of those putty things and some messed up monster running around town. Call in mega-zord with the power sword thing and do that lightning gizmo on them while they're small.

 

[Analog]

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?

takes too much energy.

 

[Jeff7]

yeah, but the specs for the last gen enterprise used in the last episode of TNG goes up to warp 14.

star trek plot continuity = not that good...

Yeah...oh well.

They redid the warp speed curve for TNG, and put Warp 10 as "infinite speed," with the curve increasing exponentially as it approached that limit.
The writers probably never read the TNG Technical Manual though. (And neither did the effects crew - the forward torpedo launcher has been used to fire phasers, tractor beams, and power transfer beams.)

 

[meltdown75]

this thread pulled me in like a Klingon tractor beam

 

[Jeffg010]

Ok some explain to how they went back in time to get the whales in the one Star Track movie. Did they use warp speed to do that? Some how warp speed make you go back in time.

 

[DietDrThunder]

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.

You got that right, but have you ever watched the "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" series that came out in 1979. Wilma Deering, Princess Ardala, you're talking hot, Mmmm, mmm , mmm. Being 17 at the time and watching episodes like "Planet of the Slave Girls", "Vegas in Space", "Planet of the Amazon Women", etc. It didn't get any better than that for network TV.

 

[DesiPower]

same reason why you don't run you car at the top speed always

(me reserve spot on epic nerd thread too)

 

[K1052]

Ok some explain to how they went back in time to get the whales in the one Star Track movie. Did they use warp speed to do that? Some how warp speed make you go back in time.

The idea was to approach a star at high warp (9.5-9.8ish) and use the star's gravity to accelerate the ship past warp 10 enabling them to travel through time. Kirk got the idea because the Enterprise accidentally did it in TOS.

 

[trmiv]

 

[JTsyo]

In the TNG episode "Where No One Has Gone Before", the first one with the Traveler, They surpassed warp 10 by a long shot, but the only "number" given, was that the speed was "off the charts".

Edit:
they went 2,700,000 light years in a few minutes. If anyone wants to do the warp calculations on that :^D

Assuming that a few minutes is 3 minutes, they went 473,026,420,000 * the speed of light. From this chart that puts it between wrap 9.9 and 10.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

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.

Wow, I didn't realize Chloe from 24 used to be hot...

 

[darkxshade]

The galactic speed limit is warp 5... You'll get to your destination faster if you don't get pulled over by the space police.

 

[lxskllr]

Assuming that a few minutes is 3 minutes, they went 473,026,420,000 * the speed of light. From this chart that puts it between wrap 9.9 and 10.

Uh oh... I detect a disturbance of the space/time continuum :^D Jeordi definitely said they were going past warp 10 when it happened, but they never calculated a final speed.

 

[vshah]

give me back helm control! full reverse impulse out of this thread!

 

[TheVrolok]

Despite the attempt two attempts to steer this thread toward babes.. it has stayed on the topic of warp. So fail.

 

[lxskllr]

Despite the attempt two attempts to steer this thread toward babes.. it has stayed on the topic of warp. So fail.

Babes are a dime a dozen, I hardly ever get to talk about Star Trek :^D

 

[arch113]

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.

scfy played that episode just the other day....

 

[TheVrolok]

Babes are a dime a dozen, I hardly ever get to talk about Star Trek :^D

I suppose I can't argue with that.

 

[Cogman]

Because Chuck Norris told them to slow down. You wouldn't want to anger Chuck now, would you?