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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Well, there is no practical way they could establish the ship as being slower than the E-D or the Voyager (as defined in the TNG scale), AND have an episode. The TNG scale warp 6 is the minimum speed at which a weekly plot can work, and typical plots with multiple interstellar journeys require sustained TNG warp 9 or more. The writers *could* have ignored the TNG scale and gone for a "realistic" warp scale in ENT, one that is much faster than the TNG scale. In turn, the TNG ships would then be claimed to be using a scale about ten times faster than the currently established TNG scale. But would the fans have been any happier? TNG scale is canonically confirmed in much the same manner as the ENT scale now is - travel time and distance are given for some short trip in exact unambiguous terms, and a speed figure in rough agreement with the TNG scale is arrived at. I think there's an easy cop-out in the ENT case. Let's simply say that while one travels at warp speeds using primitive engines, time runs more slowly for the traveler than for the stationary observer, just like in Einsteinian space. The trip to Rigel X did take eighty days, but only from the viewpoint of SF HQ. Archer experienced only a couple of days. This means the ship will be massively out of synch with SF HQ whenever she returns from a long high-warp journey. But hopefully, the ship is not returning any time soon, so we don't have to care about SF HQ. Heck, this would more or less mean that 2161 will roll by the end of the first season, and we do get to see the founding of the Federation! :D Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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