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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ryan McReynolds: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Bernd: [qb]...and within seven seasons Voyager would have reached the Alpha Quadrant with nominal speed?[/qb][/QUOTE] For what it's worth, logistics could explain the expansion of a 7 year trip into a 70 year trip. The ship can't continuously operate warp drive for 7 years; it's got to refuel, restrock, repair, and so on. We've never seen long-term warp drive before. Maybe travelling at 10000 c works for a month or so, but any more and you blow out your warp coils... so [i]Voyager[/i] had to maintain a slower average speed if she wanted to keep moving. Not that I actually believe any of that. The old warp-variable idea works best for me, especially with the corrolary that they're only useful after you've mapped them. Federation ships can follow well-known routes and cross 8000 light-years in a few weeks, while [i]Voyager[/i] just plows ahead and takes a year. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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