> Although formulas to calculate a relative speed from a warp factor have existed in the writer's guides, these were rarely used for reference in the episodes and films.
They just winged it with the technobabble. They retconned it by explaining that it’s a relativistic measurement which take into account gravity wells and ship size. I.e. even warp factor 10 (infinite speed in Voyager) might not be enough to escape a black hole if it gets too close.
Edit: the ENT/VOY comparison makes no sense even with the retcon IMO, how is warp 4.6 in a mid-22nd century ship an order of magnitude faster than warp 4.7 in a 24th century ship?
>Edit: the ENT/VOY comparison makes no sense even with the retcon IMO, how is warp 4.6 in a mid-22nd century ship an order of magnitude faster than warp 4.7 in a 24th century ship?
Emissions. ;)
I mean there was a TNG episode where they limited warp to factor 5 because of space emissions destroying the space environment or something like that.
> Although formulas to calculate a relative speed from a warp factor have existed in the writer's guides, these were rarely used for reference in the episodes and films.
They just winged it with the technobabble. They retconned it by explaining that it’s a relativistic measurement which take into account gravity wells and ship size. I.e. even warp factor 10 (infinite speed in Voyager) might not be enough to escape a black hole if it gets too close.
Edit: the ENT/VOY comparison makes no sense even with the retcon IMO, how is warp 4.6 in a mid-22nd century ship an order of magnitude faster than warp 4.7 in a 24th century ship?