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[QUOTE]Originally posted by PsyLiam: [QB] A bit late now, but doesn't Q Who get the warp scale wrong? Q throws the ship 7000 light years away from the Federation, and Data says it will take two and a half years to get back at maximum warp. At that point in the series, maximum warp could have still been warp 9.2 (as it was in Farpoint), or warp 9.6 (like it was for most of the series. In either case, it doesn't fit. Going by that scale, Voyager, a much faster ship, should have been home in less that thirty years. (And that's assuming that Data meant [i]maximum[/i] maximum warp, rather than just "the hieghest speed we can maintain for a couple of years"). It was a rather strange mistake actually. Assuming they were using Okuda's warp scale then (and there's no reason to assume they weren't), there was no plot reason for them to make warp drive to fast. In fact, wouldn't the plot have worked better if it would have taken them longer to get back? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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