XPost: alt.startrek, rec.arts.startrek.current, rec.arts.tv   
   From: jedi@nomad.mishnet   
      
   On 2006-05-16, videonovels@yahoo.com  wrote:   
   >   
   > Wouter Valentijn wrote:   
   >> Mike Dicenso wrote:   
   >> > On Sat, 13 May 2006, Wouter Valentijn wrote:   
   >> >   
   >> >> Mike Dicenso wrote:   
   >> >>>   
   >> >>>>> Wouter Valentijn wrote:   
   >> >>>>>>   
   >> >>>>>> That's the other way around I'd say.   
   >> >>>>>> TOS was *first*.   
   >> >>>>>> Voyager was never consistent with the speeds in TOS.   
   >> >>>>>   
   >> >>>>>   
   >> >>>>> .   
   >> >>>>   
   >> >>>   
   >> >>>   
   >> >>>  TOS had it's "slow" moments, too. In "By   
   >> >>> Any Other Name", Kirk tells Kelvin leader Rojan that it would take   
   >> >>> the Enterprise "thousands" of years to reach Andromeda.   
   >> >>> That's grossly inconsistant with an Enterprise that in other   
   >> >>> episodes, like "That Which Survives", which have the ship crossing   
   >> >>> a thousand light years   
   >> >>> in a day or less. The trip to Andromeda should only take about 3 to   
   >> >>> 5 years.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> Indeed!   
   >> >> And the Kelvan's themselves claimed three hundred years.   
   >> >> And wasn't that also the number mentioned in 'Where No One Has Gone   
   >> >> Before'? Or was that another galaxy?   
   >> >   
   >> >   
   >> > It was 300 years at maximum warp from the far side of the Triangulum   
   >> > Galaxy, M33, which is farther away to begin with than Andromeda. The   
   >> > latest data from Sky Catalogue 2000.0, M33 is about 2.9 million ly   
   >> > away from the Milky Way. Add about another 100 thousands or so ly for   
   >> > the E-D winding up on M33's far side, and you have about 3 million   
   >> > ly. That means at "maximum" warp, the E-D is capable of at least   
   >> > 10,000c. -Mike   
   >>   
   >> And at that speed that 70,000 lightyears could be done in 7 years..   
      
   	...assuming you can maintain max speed for 7 years straight.   
      
   	Assuming this is kinda like assuming that a Tomcat can run on   
   afterburners for as long as it would take it to fly out to it's effective   
   range.   
      
   >   
   > .   
   >   
   > AND THE MORAL OF THIS TALE:   
   >   
   > TOS, TNG, Voyager, et cetera..... they all have their inconsistences.   
   > Stop being so nitpicky, and just enjoy the show.   
      
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