Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!cca!ima!haddock!jimc From: jimc@haddock.UUCP Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: so THAT'S a warp. - (nf) Message-ID: <279@haddock.UUCP> Date: Tue, 30-Oct-84 23:54:01 EST Article-I.D.: haddock.279 Posted: Tue Oct 30 23:54:01 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Nov-84 03:09:12 EST Lines: 20 #R:wjvax:-23800:haddock:16200011:000:981 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.