andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner) (10/17/83)
Even with the super-turbo-hyper-charged warp drive which allows
"emergency" speeds of warp 12 (= 12^3 c = 1728 light-years/year), it
would take 22 hours to travel from here to Alpha Centauri, the nearest
star. Yet the Enterprise flashes by stars so fast you can hear them
"whoosh" (-:
Star Trek works best if you ignore the whole question of how fast the
ship is going. Even if a true space warp is involved, several
well-understood facets of relativity are violated.
-- Andrew Klossner (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew) [UUCP]
(andrew.tektronix@rand-relay) [ARPA]