don@umd5.UUCP (05/15/85)
In article <705@umn-cs.UUCP> goldman@umn-cs.UUCP (Matthew D. Goldman ) writes: >If you will remember the episode with two battlestars, the only reason >that the Battlestar Galactica was not able to go FTL was for lack of fuel. >The Galactica had a higher rate of fire and a few fighter squadrons. > According to my memory, characters often referred to the Galactica as "going to light-speed". In the Star Trek Universe, this would be Warp 1. The Enterprise (in the series) could do Warp 6 , which is more than six times as fast as Warp 1 - Warp 1 is 1 X the speed of light , while Warp 6 is 6^3 X the speed of light... If you think the old Enterprise was bad , could you imagine what the new & improved Enterprise would do ? -- --==---==---==-- "Space, the final frontier ..." What ?!!? ^ No more ?!? But it's a frontier of frontiers !! --==---==---==-- ___________ _____ ---- _____ \ //---- IDIC ----- _\______//_ ---- ---------- ARPA: umd5!don@maryland.ARPA BITNET: don%umd5@umd2 CSNET: don@umd5 SPOKEN: Chris Sylvain (transient user of Don Preuss' account) UUCP: {seismo, rlgvax, allegra, brl-bmd, nrl-css}!umcp-cs!cvl!umd5!don
rob@osiris.UUCP (Robert St. Amant) (05/17/85)
> The Enterprise (in the series) could do Warp 6 , which is more than six > times as fast as Warp 1 - Warp 1 is 1 X the speed of light , while > Warp 6 is 6^3 X the speed of light... > > SPOKEN: Chris Sylvain (transient user of Don Preuss' account) I've never been able to figure out how the warp numbers correspond to speed. Kirk is fond of cruising away at the end of episodes at warp factor two. That doesn't sound too fast. On a five year mission, they ought to hit more than three or four planets. :-) Also, what's the fastest the Enterprise has ever gone? Didn't some alien, or maybe Nomad, soup it up to warp 16 or so? Rob St. Amant