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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] The Valiant certainly wasn't sent to deliberately sail to the Barrier - Kirk was very emotional about how it was "impossible" that an Earth vessel other than his own starship would be in this region of space. OTOH, the mission of the Valiant was intended to be a multi-year one, if we believe Kirk when he says the ship was launched "over" 200 years ago and lost "almost" 200 years ago. And Kirk could reach the barrier within no more than two years out of his reputed five-year mission (that's the maximum time we can allocate - the TOS episodes we saw could have spanned more than three years, and then there's TAS). Heck, in later episodes, he seemed to return to the Barrier in a matter of hours. So it doesn't sound impossible for the Valiant to do the same within a few decades. Why was the feat "impossible" nevertheless? Was two-three decades completely beyond the endurance limit of a pre-TOS vessel? Dialogue establishes that the Valiant was hit by a "magnetic storm". While there's nothing there to indicate that this storm seriously displaced the ship (apart from throwing her across the Barrier), there's nothing to say it didn't. Perhaps "magnetic storm" is what a wormhole-type anomaly would look like to the inexperienced 21st century starship commander. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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