• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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      23 hours ago

      Yeah, and I’m fine with that. I don’t need a “plausible” explanation for everything. Same with Star Trek. In Voyager, Tom Paris goes faster than warp 10, which is infinitely fast. And he doesn’t travel infinitely far. Or all that far at all. How is that possible? The writers said so. Why did he turn into a salamander afterward? Because that’s what happens when you go faster than warp 10. Whatever, as long as I’m enjoying it.

      Edit: also, as far as I know, the TV show with the most people with advanced degrees who have worked on it is Futurama and they never let science get in the way of a good joke.

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            12 hours ago

            The Enterprise D Technical Manual that Sternbach and Okuda released, which was supposed to be about as canon as it gets, says warp 10 is infinite speed. Go figure.

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              Maybe it’s Warp 9.9 that is ever increasing. I don’t really remember, but I distinctly remember reading two different tech manuals describing the “fastest possible speed of any federation vessel” as two entirely different multiples of C, and Warp 10 being defined as the fastest possible speed.

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                Warp 10 was supposed to be unreachable because it was infinite speed and warp speed was rated on a curve. They decided to change that.