Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uwvax.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!uwvax!derek
From: derek@uwvax.UUCP (Derek Zahn)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: What's a warp?
Message-ID: <28@uwvax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 3-Nov-84 13:43:08 EST
Article-I.D.: uwvax.28
Posted: Sat Nov  3 13:43:08 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 4-Nov-84 05:11:56 EST
References: <221@wjvax.UUCP> <667@reed.UUCP>
Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
Lines: 35

> > 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)


Please, folks, if I hear one more "official" explanation that speed =
warp**3*c, I will scream.  I get the point.

derek

-- 
Derek Zahn @ wisconsin
...!{allegra,heurikon,ihnp4,seismo,sfwin,ucbvax,uwm-evax}!uwvax!derek
derek@wisc-rsch.arpa