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From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: ST III novalization, warp speed and reaching Andromeda
Message-ID: <471@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Nov-84 14:18:53 EST
Article-I.D.: ncoast.471
Posted: Wed Nov  7 14:18:53 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 10-Nov-84 02:50:20 EST
References: <3971@cbscc.UUCP> <207@spp2.UUCP>
Reply-To: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Organization: North Coast XENIX, Cleveland
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Summary: 

> Article <207@spp2.UUCP>, from brahms@spp2.UUCP
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| >	As Zefram Cochrane pointed ou in 2053, actual warp speeds relative
| >to the speed of light may be calculated by multiplying the warp factor
| >cubed by a variable that accounts for the curvature of space in a fourth
| >dimension by the presence of mass; subspace, a continuum in which a vessel
| >under warp drive travels, is not curved in a fourth spatial dimension,
| >and therefore offers a linear "short cut" between points in our galaxy.
| >... and the transit time to
| >the Andromeda galaxy becomes thousands rather than hundreds of years.
| 
| Here is my question:
| 
| 	In the ST-III Novelization, there are reports of a ship that has
| reached the Andromeda galaxy.  With the above formula, which seems much
| more reasonable than (W^3)c=v, this would not be possible.
| Any ideas or should we just ignore this at not being true ST?
| 

Vonda McIntyre is much truer to ST than many authors (and screenwriters!).
She was referring to a ship described in _T_h_e_ _E_n_t_r_o_p_y_ _E_f_f_e_c_t, an
earlier ST novel of hers.  As I remember it, it was a halfway point between
transwarp and ordinary warp drives; and, being small, could attain transwarp
speeds.  100^3(c)= fast enough, I think.

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