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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Siegfried: [QB] Depends on the warp scale you're using. The one from The Next Generation onwards using a very complex set of equations to figure out how many times the speed of light a warp factor is. The approximate values can be found in the TNG Technical Manual. I don't have that available at the moment, but I sure someone else here does. On a side note, do we know when the TNG warp scale actually came into use in the Trek universe? For some reason, I seem to think that The Undiscovered Country was using the TNG scale, but I don't know why I would think that. :confused: The TOS warp scale is a different beast that has its warp factors advance in a linear fashion with no upper limit (unlike the TNG scale which has an overall curvilinear shape that has no definite end but approaches factor 10). I believe the way of figuring out the TOS speed corrolation is to cube the factor number. Thus Warp 2 is 8 times the speed of light, Warp 3 is 27 times the speed of light, et cetra. Both systems have one thing in common. Warp 1 is equal is to just a slight bit faster than the speed of light (because I believe its impossible to be at [i]precisely[/i] the speed of light -- someone will correct me if I'm wrong). [/QB][/QUOTE]
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