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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Daniel: [QB] Boy, this thread is getting interesting. Okay, several points. Who said that they reverted to the TOS scale? The TOS scale, I believe, places warp factors at the cube of the speed of light. What if they recalibrated the scale to make the current warp 10 warp 9 and made the rest fractional increases, such as the new warp 10 equating to the old 9.99, and warp 11 to 9.9999 and so on. I think someone mentioned this idea, above, but in terms of riducule. This would work, too, since I believe the power use/velocity curve given is a reversed exponential graph. As you approach infinity, you get less bang for your buck, less speed for your power. also, directly from TNG:TM - "The propulsive effect is achieved by a number of factors working in concert. First, the field formation is controllable in a fore to aft direction. As the plasma injecros fire sequentially, the warp field layers build according to the pulse frequency in the plasma, and press upon each other as previously discussed. The cumulative field layer forces reduce the apparent mass of the vehicle and impart the required velocities. The critical transition point occurs when the spacecraft appears to an outside observer to be traveling faster than c. As the warp field energy reaches 1000 millicochranes, the ship appears driven across the c boundary in less than Planck time, 1.3times 10 to the negative 43 sec, warp physics insuring that the ship would never be precisely at c. The three forward coils of each nacelle operate with a slight frequency offset to reinforce the field ahead of the Bussard ramscoop and envelop the Saucer Module. This helps create the field asymmetry required to drive the ship forward." There it is, in a nutshell. Letsalope was canonically correct. The ship does not ever exceed the speed of light. It *appears* to break the c barrier at 1000 millicochranes, but only to an outside observer. It will never reach 300,000 kps. Comments? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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