I also noticed that there are far more stars when warping than would be possible in reality. Anyone have a source that can account for that?
(I have a star-map which shows how the stars going by would REALLY look, and at the warp speed I'm talking about, it feels more like a brisk walk than cruising the highway. It might look the way they have it at Warp 9, but at Warp 5, it's just a brisk walk.)
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But the stars aren't even visible at warp in the Trek universe...
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what are those bright lines flying by then?
and in TOS, the stars didnt streak, the only clue we had to when the ship was at warp was that it was going fast in relation to us. This is what causes the shuttles at warp confusion.. on TOS whether it was .5 sublight or warp two you still saw the ship going along at the same speed
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Something other than stars. All it takes to prove it is watching a single "going-to-warp" or "coming-out-of-warp" scene. There's no correlation between the stars and the Funky Warp Streaks™.
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Best theory I've heard is that they're charged particles excited by the ships warp envelope.
BTW, it seems some of us have an imperfect concept of cloning. Transporters do not 'clone' the transportee. If they did, it would take years for them to mature back to the correct age, and even then, neural engrams aren't cloned. Not to mention the fact that a good portion of who we are is a result of biochemical processes in the womb, environmental influences, etc...
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