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[QUOTE]Originally posted by PsyLiam: [QB] "and by the way, warp 1 isn't the speed of light," Er, yes it is. According to, well, pretty much everyone who works in the Trek universe. Hell, I think even Brannon Braga knows that warp 1 = speed of light. "it's impules just like warp 10, but in a warp feild" Okaaaayyy. Are we using a different definition of impulse here? Most people use the following system. Impulse = slower than light speed/normal stars Warp = Light speed, or greater/streaky stars Now, with the possible exception of (I think) Contagion (With the stupid "Increase to warp 6 Mr La Forge" "Aye sir, full impulse" line), every episode of Star Trek has followed this. Warp 10 (theoretically) can not be reached, because it is infinite speed. And at infinite speed, you would be everywhere at the same time. And since in "Threshold" Paris didn't end up on Galifrey in the distant Flicktop galaxy, I'm going for the "he just went really close to warp 10. Warp 9.99999999999999999999etc" answer. But, anyway, again: Warp 1 = The speed of light, or c Warp 9 = over a thousand times faster than c (I think. Rusty memory). Warp 10 = infinite speed. You'd be there as you left. Warp 13 = faster than infinite speed. How would that work? You arrive before you leave? Therefore, the only answer is that the warp scale had been recalibrated, so that warp 10 was no longer infinite speed. Perhaps they went back to the TOS version? Of course, the real world answer is that Moore and Braga were just screwing with us. Lots of sacred cows were sacrificed in All Good Things. The Enterprise having three warp engines (odd no of warp engines = bad, said Mr Roddenberry). The Enterprise cloaking (bad, said Mr Roddenberry). The fact that the shot of Cambridge was actually Oxford (bad, according to a mum of a mate of mine. She threw stuff at the screen. Maybe). And the fact that the episode agreed with most theories about the age of the Earth, and evolution (bad, according to, er, some people). [/QB][/QUOTE]
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