Timeline for How fast can the Galaxy class Starships go in reverse?
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| May 11 at 19:44 | comment | added | einpoklum | So, by your answer - how can the deceleration not be exceedingly slow? If it can only use the maneuvering thrusters? | |
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| Nov 23, 2017 at 7:08 | comment | added | pleurocoelus | TNG: Relics has the Enterprise-D use its impulse engines at full reverse (dialog between Scotty and Geordi). | |
| Jun 30, 2016 at 18:20 | comment | added | user14952 | I watched this recently and you're correct - I'd forgotten. The Enterprise does back off from the probe at half-impulse or so, but it then turns about in order to go faster. The viewscreen still shows the probe approaching, so I suppose it's a rear view. | |
| Jun 30, 2016 at 17:45 | comment | added | Thaddeus Howze | The TNG episode does not deal with reverse movements only extreme warp jumps to distant parts of the Galaxy to meet the Cytherians. | |
| Jun 30, 2016 at 17:44 | comment | added | Thaddeus Howze | @lunchmeat317 - I took a look at both episodes. In the Corbomite Maneuver, the Enterprise goes backward under command at up to "full impulse" - the top end of sublight speeds. When the command is given to go to Warp 1, no reverse command is given. Until now we have been given clear commands for reverse or spiral course settings. It may be implied the ship is moving in reverse, but when the ship reaches Warp 3, we are left to question if that is possible or perhaps an oversight on the writers part. The only thing that confirms any sort of movement is the visual field is still moving in reverse. | |
| Feb 26, 2016 at 2:01 | comment | added | user14952 | This has been here for a while, but I seem to remember two instances of warp speed backwards - the first was in TOS, upon meeting the spinning cube in the Corbomite Manuever. The second was in TNG and I think it was a similar situation - I think it was in the Nth Degree when Barclay boosts the shield output so that they can destroy a probe. Starships can move backwards at warp speed. | |
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| Aug 6, 2013 at 8:17 | history | edited | Thaddeus Howze | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 6, 2013 at 8:11 | history | answered | Thaddeus Howze | CC BY-SA 3.0 |