• kieron115@startrek.website
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      7 hours ago

      In the Trek universe ships do not accelerate at anywhere near relativistic speeds, they create a “warp bubble” that compresses space behind the ship and expands the space in front of the ship, creating a kind of pressure differential/wave (as in ocean waves) in spacetime itself. The ship doesn’t “move” at all at warp. To quote the late, great Cubert Farnsworth: “I understand how the engines work now! It came to me in a dream. The engines don’t move the ship at all. The ship stays where it is and the engines move the universe around it!”

      That said, I don’t think I’d want to be moving at any speed through space without a way to slow myself down.