quote:Please note that the above was apparently based on an early version of the 'Friendship One' script, and so some details may be different in the final episode. It is also not known if the voice of Zefram Cochrane will be provided by James Cromwell, who is now a major movie star, or if another actor has been cast - or even if the final episode features a different historical figure.
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Still, if they do kill Carey off ... take a look at TNG's Justice and realize that you know the future in store for the young Ensign Joe Carey working the Conn and Tactical posts. Oh, yes, he should never have left the Enterprise, the poor bastard ...
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Well...why don't they also bring Vorik back and have him be assimilated by the Borg. It seems that the writers are killing off characters that fans haven't seen for years and have been asking about them.
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Just another good reason for fans to shut up.
Houndedwriterspeak: "You want this character back? You want closure? Fine! He's back! BAM! He's dead! There, you got both your wishes! Why're you still whining?"
------------------ The government that seems the most unwise, oft goodness to the people best supplies. That which is meddling, touching everything, will work but ill, and disappointment bring. - The Tao Te Ching
Voyager's 30,000 lightyears from Earth. The probe is thus also 30,000 lightyears from Earth. It traveled that distance in less than 300 years. That's not accounting for how long it took the aliens to reverse-engineer the probe and blow themselves up, but we'll assume that it took six weeks or something, and that the probe was thus traveling exactly 100 times the speed of light. That's around warp four on the new scale, or 4.6 on the old. Say warp five, to account for reverse-engineering. Pretty good, for warp having only existed for ten years. Maybe they borrowed some technology from the Vulcans?
------------------ "Omega is right." -Jeff Karrde, March 18, 2001 08:47 PM
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It could also have entered an unstable wormhole, or perhaps been caught in some sort of warp "slipstream" ...? I guess it would depend on when after the Vulcan contact the probe was launched -- if it was equipped with Vulcan designed (or influenced) warp technology, it would be (IMHO), many many many years after First Contact, when Earth and Vulcan are taking the first steps to founding the United Federation of Planets ...
------------------ Star Trek Gamma Quadrant Average Rated 8.32 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux (with seven eps posted) *** "Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!" -Omega 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001
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If the probe hit an unpredictable space anomaly, then the Admiral couldn't possibly know it was in the vicinity of Voyager. After all, to say that the probe crossed 30,000 ly may seem dubious, but to say that it could have *sent back reports* about its location across those lightyears is flat out impossible.
No, it seems more likely that the probe really was fast enough to make a planned transit of that kind. Perhaps there is something inherent in probe design that makes unmanned vessels faster than manned ones? Say, an engine that produces higher warp field levels but also high amounts of lethal radiation?
Alternatively, warp 4.6 could have been easy to reach even with early engine designs. This would be good news, because early warpships capable of only warp 2 or 3 would be useless for serious interstellar travel. OTOH, this might not be quite as good news for "The Cage", where a dramatic increase in warp capability is supposed to take place in the early 23rd century. Jumping from warp 4.6 to warp 7 may be impressive, but it would have been much more impressive if the early warships had indeed been capable of only warp 2 or 3, and had spent decades on their journeys.
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