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Michael Dracon
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How do you change your warp speed??
By changing the shape of the warp bubble. Or by changing the energy put into the bubble. Or something else???

Please NO Voyager variable 'wings' debate here!!!!!
I want to know how it works on 'fixed nacelled' ships.

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The First One
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Probably both, actually. Remember that warp fields can have a variable calibration of millicochranes or whatever. . .

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Bernd
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This discussion will probably warp to the starship & technology forum, but anyway:

The depiction of the warp field in the TNGTM suggests it is static, but actually it has a certain frequency due to the ignition sequence of the coils. The subspace distortion in cochranes eventually determines the warp speed (note that v/c is always equal to the cochrane value).

1. The subspace distortion gets stronger as the power output is increased.

2. The subspace distortion gets stronger, as a cretain threshold is exceeded, given by the nature of subspace and the principle of warp drive to create nested layers of the field. To generate more layers at a time, it is obvious that the frequency has to be increased.

Don't ask me about the nature of these layers, they don't exactly fit into the theory of just creating a field or wave, maybe it is an effect of field overlay (i.e. modulation).

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Saltah'na
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Bernd: Uh-huh...... that's where it belongs........

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Michael Dracon
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Okay, your right, it does belong here.
Sorry about that.

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