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    In every ST series, they only ever say that in warp. And nobody has no idea how warp works.

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      less so in nutrek, old trek usually has some techno-babble included. i wonder if they think the viewers will get bored to death from a pseudo-explanation of how warp works, eventhough they sorta explained it over the franchise as (contracting and expanding space using a subspace field).

      transwarp, vortex, slipstream kinda sidesteps the speed of light in our own universe, by interdimensional travel, hence why its faster than warp.

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          The D. We only saw The C once. That was the ship Tasha went to with Shooter McGavin.

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            IIRC the in universe reason for the E’s long ass nacelles was to allow it to achieve 9.95. I am pretty sure I remember part of the expanded universe going into experimental refits of the USS Sovereign that allowed it to hit 9.995.

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            It did, but it also attacked the klingons from below rather than the standard head on so we know they writers were all high when they wrote that!

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            Writers are not physicists, and the TOS Enterprise also had a few minutes above warp 10 at some point. It’s whatever a set of 2-4 writers and 3-5 producers decided that week, and retconning the awkward bits later.

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          Warp 10 was how they got back, wasn’t it?

          But it’s also at the end of the Star Trek timeline, so they’re allowed to advance the tech curve a little bit

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            Warp 10 was how they got back, wasn’t it?

            no, warp 10 is how paris and janeway made their lizard babies, left them stranded somewhere and then never talked about them again. worf is parent of the year compared to these two.

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            Voyager took a Borg transwarp corridor to get back to Earth. Future Admiral Janeway facilitated it.