Sounds interesting, but I'm kinda nervous about that whole "unseen enemy from another time" thing. It sounds like the year-old rumors of a 29th century baddie traveling back in time to prevent the birth of the Federation could be true...anyone remember "Time Traxx"?
It also rings of "the Phantom Menace," which is even worse.
Posted by targetemployee (Member # 217) on :
My reaction-
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
So, for a century, they barely managed to best the speed of light, and suddenly they managed to jump to 125c?
Posted by Timo (Member # 245) on :
One wonders if the most recent references speak of TOS warp speeds or Okuda warp speeds... At TOS speeds, warp 5 would indeed be 125c, while an Okudaic warp 5 means 214c. Still, if we take that "a hundred times faster than earlier ships" thing literally, it would mean the old ships couldn't even do warp 2, on either scale. So if Cochrane wanted to visit Vulcan personally, he'd better put aside a spare decade or two...
In any case, warp 5/125c (214c) is an improvement over the so far dreaded warp 4/64c (102c). A typical interstellar hop of ten lightyears shouldn't take two months (one month), but just one (2.5 weeks). Heck, at Okudaic speeds, the ship *could* go from star to star within the time allotted for a typical episode!
Timo Saloniemi
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
Um... has it occured to anyone that a particular ep might very well last a month? Or that perhaps it's designed to be an arc-based series, and that it'll take 'em half the season to get that Klingon home?
Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
I won't put my money on that Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
Me either..
Y'know, I'm kinda disappointed in this. Star Trek doesn't HAVE to be all about time travel, and yet "Enterprise" is already pulling a "Voyager" by having the evil, recurring character being from the future.
I don't mind the odd time travel story, but Voyager really got annoying with them. It's not what Trek's about, to me.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
On the other hand, it is what Star Trek is about to a good deal of the general market. Consider the plots of the most profitable films.
Posted by MIB (Member # 426) on :
a Matrix-style slow-motion fight scene in the aforementioned temporal chamber? Prostitues? Pimps? WTF is this shit? And the star ship will be capable of Warp 5. I'm assuming that is under the old warp scale, so that would mean that the ship actually has a max speed of Warp 4. Maybe less on the new warp scale we all know and love! However. If that is the case, then the trip to the Klingon homeworld is gonna take a good while. Unless the crew finds a shortcut somewhere, the first couple of seasons is gonna be about the journey to and from the Klingon homeworld!
Posted by NightWing (Member # 4) on :
I wonder if they're actually going to use the old scale again... It's going to be very confusing for a lot of TNG era fans.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Um...how would they ever notice?
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Yeah. Do you sit there, watching TOS or the first six movies, and, whenever anything goes into warp, scream "I don't understand what speed they are going at! My brain doesn't work! Arrrrgghhhh! They've gone to warp 13! Why aren't they turning into fish?"
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
Because they're turning into amphibians instead. 8)
Posted by The_Evil_Lord (Member # 256) on :
Which are close cousins of the family of Fishius Watericus, so he wasn't too far off. Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
You know, I've never actually seen Threshold. For this I am truelly saddened.
No, wait, not saddened. Delighted. That's what I meant.
Posted by Timo (Member # 245) on :
Which is sort of a pity, since "Threshold" was a very fine Tom Paris episode. If they had just skipped that transwarp stuff and given Robert Duncan McNeill some other reason to emote like that, this could have been a classic.
However. If that is the case, then the trip to the Klingon homeworld is gonna take a good while. Unless the crew finds a shortcut somewhere, the first couple of seasons is gonna be about the journey to and from the Klingon homeworld!