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   From: liam@valentijn.nu   
      
   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..   
   >   
   > .   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > .   
      
   Nitpicking is half the fun! ;-)   
   Besides, I think that being critical of certain things is part of the fan   
   experience.   
   There are parts you like, parts you don't like, parts you absolutely hate   
   and there are parts that make you totally fall in love with a show or   
   franchise.   
   In the case of Star Trek with it's vast canon there's bound to be a lot of   
   love, but also a lot of criticism. Some parts of canon more than others.   
   The older you get the harder it is to 'switch off your brain'. You see, you   
   observe, you think and you judge.   
      
   --   
   Wouter Valentijn   
      
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   "The world that denies thee, thou inhabit.   
   The peace that ignores thee, thou corrupt.   
   Chaos. I remain, as ever, thy faithful, degenerate son."   
      
   Ethan Rayne, 'Halloween' (Buffy The Vampire Slayer)   
      
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