Now, if Paris statement is taken at face value (and he's a Starship pilot), so the claim that Warp 9.9 = 21 473 times C actually fits what we saw generally of most SF ships when they were using Warp from TNG, to DS9, and even VOY. It didn't even manage to sustain Warp 9.9 in Threshold episode for more than 30 seconds.Īnd it was seen cruising usually at Warp 6. One way of another, what we saw on-screen tells us that Voyager never attained Warp 9.975, let alone sustained it. Warp 9.9 could have been the maximum sustainable cruise velocity for USS Prometheus. The USS Prometheus was comfortably sustaining Warp 9.9 without any issues.īut whether that was its maximum speed is unknown. However, when the EMH Mark 1 said they were at Warp 9.9 heading straight for Romulan space, the EMH Mark 2 promptly responded with 'this ship was designed to go faster than anything in the fleet, so we'll never be rescued'. I wouldn't be surprised if SF decided to use aspects of soliton wave technology to greatly increase the efficiency of Warp engines though.īut, as for the USS Prometheus, the official on-screen dialogue never says what the ship's maximum speed is. making the Soliton Wave technology about 480% more efficient than standard Warp engines (again, this is taken from on-screen dialogue in TNG). The Soliton Wave technology for example resulted in less than 2% drop in power between the wave and a drone test ship. Granted, SF would eventually find a way to compensate for the power expenditure, and hull stresses, allowing greater speeds at Warp. The base premise behind this is that past Warp 9.9, every increment results in exponential (double) increase in velocity (and also power expenditure). So, the Warp scale might make more sense if it was something like this: Most notably, in TNG it was in the episode Gambit (season 7). That's also roughly 9,000 times the speed of light.Īlso, there are at least two instances in TNG where raising the velocity of the ship from Warp 8.7, to Warp 9, cut the time needed to arrive at a destination from 14 hours to 5 hours (that's about 180% increase in speed from just 2 decimals). At that time, The Enterprise-D could achieve Warp 9.6 for limited period of time (which we could say would be a rough 'maximum velocity). We also know from TNG 'Where no one has gone before' episode in Season 1, that at Ent-D maximum Warp, it would take the ship just over 300 years to get back to the Federation. The only time we saw them using Warp 9.9 was in the episode 'Threshold', and in that episode, when they approached Warp 9.9, the computer said 'nearing maximum Warp velocity, structural collapse is imminent'.Chakotay then ordered to slow down to Warp 9.5 to stop the ship from shaking itself apart. or Voyager was indeed the first ship capable of achieving Warp 9.975, but the damage they suffered in the transition to the DQ destroyed that capability.Īnd indeed, we mostly see Voyager cruising at Warp 6 back to the Federation, with minor increases to Warp 8 or even 9 to make up for lost time. Paris already established earlier on Voyager (on-screen) that Warp 9.9 = 4 billion miles per second (21,473 times the speed of light).Īnd since no SF ship prior to Voyager (nor even Voyager) was actually seen using Warp 9.9 (even though it was stated that Voyager's cruising speed was Warp 9.975), its safe to say that the writers were overzealous in their sustainable cruise speed for Voyager. Actually, from on-screen dialogue, the USS Prometheus traveled towards Romulan space at Warp 9.9 (not 9.99).
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