Timeline for Is Picard's note about speed in Borg transwarp conduits correct?
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| May 17, 2020 at 22:00 | comment | added | Deks | 'Maximum sustainable' means that you should be able to operate at that level for as long as you have the resources (aka fuel) to sustain it. Pushing it BEYOND this level would indicate that you can only maintain speeds for much lower periods of time. And besides, on-screen data shows that Voyager couldn't even approach 9.9 without the hull starting to fall apart... nevermind 9.975. The USS Prometheus was the only ship in late 24th century seen which was able to reach and maintain Warp 9.9 without effort (and this ship was seen in action at least 3.5 years after Voyager's launch). | |
| May 12, 2020 at 17:59 | comment | added | Keith Morrison | There's a difference between a "maximum sustainable" power level and a "realistically sustainable" power level. All the former means is that you can operate at that level for more than a brief surge. To use a simple example, a modern racing car has an engine that's capable of maintaining a high power output for the duration of an event (practice, qualifying, and the actual race) but the longest period of time it can maintain that level of power before needing rebuilding is measured in hours, as opposed to years for engines in normal cars. | |
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| Mar 31, 2020 at 0:44 | comment | added | Deks | Since USS Prometheus was able to maintain warp 9.9 indefinitely (as it was mentioned to be heading towards Romulan space at that speed), and the ship was built roughly 3 years after USS Voyager was launched, it shows an interesting level of warp factor increase. If SF was able to increase sustainable warp speeds by 0.15 every 4-5 years, one would hope their latest state of the art ship in ST: Picard would be capable of achieving/maintaining at least Warp 9.975 (400 Ly's per hour) or 9.99 (1200 Ly's per hour) for indefinite periods. | |
| Mar 31, 2020 at 0:23 | comment | added | Deks | For reference sake, it seems the Enterprise-D was only able to sustain Warp 9.2 in Season 1 without compromising structural integrity. As the show progressed, the maximum sustainable warp factor of the Enterprise increased to 9.6 (without compromising structural integrity). 9.8 Could have been operated for brief periods apparently (eventually requiring engine shutdown/maintenance), whereas speeds above that would compromise structural integrity. I wonder just how much faster the Galaxy class has gotten though in the proceeding decades with all enhancements. | |
| Mar 25, 2020 at 0:02 | comment | added | Jared | Just to make it even muddier, the Equinox from Season 5 episode 25 and Season 6 episode 1 was traversing 10,000 light years in two weeks using alien crystal stuff in their warp drive. | |
| Mar 19, 2020 at 12:59 | comment | added | Deks | I would imagine that again (at first), Voyager could send a message to SF and it would take maybe a few months to a year to get there (at least they would know where the ship is). And as the show progresses, they could still invent better ways of communication across such vast distances. I think the show missed the opportunity to portray just how far the Federation could have come in terms of scientific and technological advancement and create a parallel to our own by making snippets of info that science and tech evolve exponentially (not linearly). Plenty of storytelling. | |
| Mar 19, 2020 at 12:58 | comment | added | Deks | In fact, the closest galaxy to Milky Way is the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy which is only 42 000 Ly's away from our galactic centre (and 25 000 Ly's away from our Solar system). At a speed of 9600 Ly's per day (400Ly's per hour), it would take Voyager just under 4 and a half days to get there... less if you count the distance from SOL to there. Point is, the distances between galaxies wouldn't have made the show boring... it would be a same relative distance to how Warp travel was portrayed in the show. As for communications... subspace comms travel much faster than fastest ships. | |
| Mar 19, 2020 at 12:54 | comment | added | Deks | Well, actually, since Warp 9.975 = (about) 400 Ly's per hour, Voyager would need to be thrown about 262,800,000 Ly's away from the Federation to have taken 75 years to get back. As for the ship travelling the empty space between galaxies being boring... says who? The void could easily contain all kinds of phenomena and other ships travelling there too. It would also give Starfleet (Voyager) an opportunity to study the void between galaxies. Plus, at that speed, Voy would need 282 days to get from Milky Way to Andromeda, and distances between galaxies aren't always that big. | |
| Mar 17, 2020 at 14:19 | comment | added | Paul D. Waite | @PrincessAda: you don't like idea of five straight seasons' worth of Captain Proton holodeck episodes? | |
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| Mar 16, 2020 at 10:48 | comment | added | Princess Ada | @RyanMcDonough It would also mean that large amounts of the series involved Voyager travelling through the empty space between galaxies, which would get kind of boring. | |
| Mar 16, 2020 at 10:00 | comment | added | Ryan McDonough | "they could have just thrown Voyager well beyond the galaxy" though that would have played havoc with the communication back home, at least in DQ they had a 'reasonable' ability to communicate with home. | |
| Mar 16, 2020 at 7:28 | comment | added | SpacePhoenix | Without looking it up I believe there was a mention in TNG of the Enterprise D having an absolute top speed of warp 9.8 which was only sustainable for approx 10hrs | |
| Mar 15, 2020 at 5:24 | comment | added | lucasbachmann | Obviously Voyager's 9.975 cannot be a cruising speed despite the claim in the pilot. As you point out it is barely believable as a maximum theoretical speed. That can't be pointed out often enough. But I suppose if it has a galaxy class level warp core and a constitution class size and mass that extra energy can go towards the extra speed. | |
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| Mar 14, 2020 at 22:29 | history | answered | Deks | CC BY-SA 4.0 |