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   From: mdicenso@seds.org   
      
   On Tue, 16 May 2006, Wouter Valentijn wrote:   
      
   > Mike Dicenso wrote:   
   > > On Tue, 16 May 2006, Wouter Valentijn wrote:   
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   > >> And at that speed that 70,000 lightyears could be done in 7 years..   
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   > > Yes, and at least a few of the VOY writers caught onto this issue,   
   > > which is why in "The Year of Hell Pt. I", along with two other   
   > > episodes, it's made clear that one of the reasons Voyager can't get   
   > > home is because of a lack of good navigational on the Delta quadrent.   
   > > In TYoH, 5 years was shaved off thanks to the new method employ   
   > > employed by Voyager's astrometrics lab. In "Hope and Fear", which   
   > > comes well after TYoH, Starfleet sent all the information they could   
   > > on the Delta quadrent to shave a "few years" off the journey. A like   
   > > amount was shaved   
   > > off thanks to more information provided by Q in "Q2". So depending on   
   > > how you define "a few years", between 9 and 15 years was shaved off   
   > > the trip home just by doing that. No miracle drives, wormholes, or   
   > > other "cheats" used.   
   >   
   > In part those could be explanations...   
   > But in other shows what in Voyager terms would be years, would be days or   
   > hours even.   
      
   Right, they still have 55-61 years left on the journey after those   
   corrections, but it is also clear that those navigational data upgrades   
   weren't complete, and could be done at virtually any point in the ship's   
   journey home. So the question really becomes, if the Voyager had full   
   information available to it on the Delta quadrent, do they get home in a   
   few years time or less?   
      
   The fastest speed suggested so far in Trek using conventional warp drive   
   would be around 1 million c depending on how you want to interpret   
   Professor Galen's "weeks" with a starship to travel across the 30,000 to   
   40,000 ly long route he outlined to Picard on a map of the Milk Way   
   galaxy. So at that speed the E-D (or rather Voyager) gets home in about a   
   month.   
   -Mike   
      
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