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From: sabol@reed.UUCP (Bryan Sabol)
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Subject: Re: What's a warp?
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Date: Mon, 29-Oct-84 18:39:14 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 29 18:39:14 1984
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> 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)