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Subject: Re: so THAT'S a warp. - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 30-Oct-84 23:54:01 EST
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haddock!jimc    Oct 30 15:56:00 1984

I'm not sure I agree, Ron.  For example, let's look at one 
episode where the Enterprise encountered an energy bolt which 
drove them, and I quote, "a thousand light years across the 
galaxy." Since Kirk and the landing party were stranded on an 
asteroid with the man-eating Lee Meriwether, Spock and Scotty 
went zinging along back to rescue them.  On both the Enterprise 
and the asteroid, the whole journey took only a few days.  To 
have done the voyage in one year they would have had to average 
1000 times the speed of light, which would have been warp factor 
ten.  Now I have seen the enterprise go faster, a few times at 
warp 11.  But, that doesn't come close -- to have done the 
journey in, say, two days, they would had to have averaged 
somewhere around 180,000 times the speed of light.  If v=w**3,
we're looking at something in the neighborhood of warp 56.

Oh well.  Not even Star Trek is perfect, a fact which we all are 
going to have to confront some time.