![]() ![]() Later, we’re told the journey ahead was 70,000 ly and would take 75 years. In “Caretaker”, we’re told Voyager’s maximum speed is warp 9.975. About 20 years later, the A achieved a similar feat by traveling from Federation space to the center of the galaxy, about a third of Voyager’s journey, in the middle of a movie.Įdit: here’s another one. That’s a journey two-thirds the distance Voyager needed to take 75 years to make more than a century later in a span of time that was, on average, less than two weeks (365 days divided by 30 episodes). In TOS, the Enterprise went from the edge of the galaxy back to Federation space in the time between episodes. For every one example you can find of something moving at a speed that reasonably matches some speed curve established in some tech manual or something, there are ten examples of a time when something completely improbable happened that doesn’t make a lick of sense in terms of those same calculations.įor example, according to this calculator, the journey Enterprise made in in the pilot to get to the Klingon homeworld, which the episode states took five days, places the heart of the Klingon Empire 1.25 ly from Earth, about a third of the distance to the next nearest star to the Sun. Ships have always moved at the speed of plot. Here’s the problem with any warp speed calculator: the writers don’t use them. ![]()
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