08-08-2016, 04:50 PM
(08-08-2016, 04:43 PM)Rahizel Wrote:(08-08-2016, 04:40 PM)SCN-3_NULL Wrote: kid, you should see more shoddy cast, there's a bloody good reason I keep posting his "a letter to-" series here, sure it sounds like he's overcalculate things but that's the thing applied to real life that's in videogamesOh boo hoo I got the numbers wrong, this is storytelling not real life.
When the question of how fast does the enterprise go the answer was "as fast as it needs to" as holding to a strict number ruins the plot.
You would be glad to learn that it actually does have a speed limit. Starting from Star Trek TNG, the Enterprise could not exceed warp 10. Hard limit right there, explained canonically as the warp drive technology of the time had changed to where warp factor 10 required nearly infinite power to achieve- more than the ships of the time could produce, and the entire warp factor scale was remade at that time to work within this limit.
Now in the original series, they often did describe the ship going far faster than it ever should have. This was a writer's crutch abused way too often, that's why it was taken out of the later series by introducing an amusing amount of technological regression.
At the same time warp factor is not a speed. Its a space-time compression factor, because the ships travel through subspace at a subluminal velocity to give the appearance of FTL capability. They never actually break the speed of light, doing so results in time warp.
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