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Well, the E-D never really hit a speed at which LaForge would have said "we can't go faster". She did hit speeds at which LaForge said "the engines aren't making happy sounds", but that didn't prompt any command decisions out of Picard or Riker, save for "press on".
The Defiant, OTOH, hit a neutronium ceiling in "The Sound of Her Voice" at warp 9.5, *after* all the bubble gum and bale wire had been spent. Aboard the E-D, the whining from Engineering only started at warp 9.6 or so.
I wouldn't have minded if the Voyager had been a poor performer, really - the trip home that Ransom and the little Equinox had sounded quite a bit more dramatic than the one Janeway's big bad ship had. But now we have to accept that the Voyager is 1) superfast, has 2) swinging pylons for 3) tiny nacelles, and can 4) land and take off. Which of these features are novel performance-increasing inventions, and which are compromises made in order to allow for the other improvements? I'd like to label at least one of the features as a concession instead of an outright improvement...
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That is, came up in connection to a plot point, rather than just a bit of world-building dialogue. Maybe "The Sound of Her Voice" has something relevant in it.
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