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Mr. Scott's guide claims that Excelsior's transwarp was based on the interphase phenomenon from "The Tholian Web", although it's a very vague story.
There's also the notion of 'hypersubspace', which the Pathfinder people used to communicate with Voyager.
quote:Originally posted by Harry: wf 14.1 after M/AM integrator fuses (extremely close to wf 10 TNG).
Er, you sure?
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Nothing is close to Warp 10 on the TNG scale... it is infinite... the warp scale in TNG continues to add decimal places with speed ever vastly increasing but no new stable area is found, like at the integral warp factors 1-9. 1.5 is faster than 1 but not as efficent as 2. The same is true for factors above Warp 9... they just haven't found the right combination of factors to eek out another point of efficency. This is perhaps a barrier of technology vertium cornide can only be refined so much and after that there isn't anything you can do to it to make it absorb plasma and transmit subspace fields better. At that point you need to add other technologies to the system [like the Borg's transwarp coil].
There is nothing that is pretty darn close to Warp 10... not even subspace comms which go 9.9997 IIRC [and probably faster since TNG TM].
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I admit, the warp calculator I used was a bit off. I found a better one, and wf 14.1 = wf 9.5669 in TNG. Still pretty damn impressive for a Constitution.
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"Hypersubspace"...that'd be normal space, wouldn't it. And why do we forget Voth transwarp drive, which was obviously neither conduit-driven nor everywhere & squishy?
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Yes, "hypersubspace" was a really clever bit of Thresholdian technocrap. On nearly the same level as "warp particles" and "fast than light, no left or right".
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