Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site reed.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!reed!sabol From: sabol@reed.UUCP (Bryan Sabol) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: What's a warp? Message-ID: <667@reed.UUCP> Date: Mon, 29-Oct-84 18:39:14 EST Article-I.D.: reed.667 Posted: Mon Oct 29 18:39:14 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Nov-84 03:50:14 EST References: <221@wjvax.UUCP> Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon Lines: 24 > Heard somewhere that warp 1 is the speed of light. From > "star trek the motion sickness" this appears to be the case. > So what's warp 2? Certainly not merely 2 times lightspeed. > Galactic distances would be too great. Does anyone know the > relationship between warp numbers and velocity? O.K., Trekker, here goes: from the actual "Star Trek Manual" (or something of the sort, I just thumbed through the book; it was too expensive to buy), the actual (and simple!) formula for calculating the warp speeds of the Enterprise is to simply use the law of cubes. Ergo: WARP SPEED OF LIGHT 1 1 2 8 3 27 4 64 5 125 6 216 etcetera. You can see that the Enterprise was a quick vessel indeed! A fellow Trekker, Bryan Sabol (Reed College)