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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Daniel: [QB] Presumably, Starfleet engineers came up with the idea on their own. There is no previous reference to the transwarp drive that I know of. We know that the Excelsior was designed as the testbed starship for the transwarp drive. However despite simulation tests that must have showed it would have worked, (I extrapolate this from Captain Style's confidence in "breaking some of the Enterprise's speed records"), it didn't. No one at this point knows why, because it was never explained. The first time in Federation history that a Starfleet craft reached transwarp speeds was in Voyager. I forget the episode, but they had discovered a new form of dilithium that could tolerate the high stresses induced by transwarp speeds. The only problem was that any human that travelled at such velocities experienced some, ahem, evolutionary problems. Namely that this aspect was highly accelerated. We can assume that this was not the reason Starfleet abandoned the Excelsior project because otherwise, Janeway probably would have known about the aftereffects of the drive and never have put Tom, or herself, through that. Why does it work for the Borg? Because they're better? Probably because they utilize a totally different drive system. You never hear anything akin to "fire on the cube's matter/antimatter core." And we know that they use something known as a "transwarp coil," presumably something Starfleet, with its pitifully small technology base, cannot replicate. Anyone else have anything to add? I'm not a TNG person, so I missed out on a lot of the development of the Borg and their technology. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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