XPost: alt.startrek, rec.arts.startrek.current, rec.arts.tv   
   From: rgorman@block.net   
      
   On Fri, 19 May 2006 19:35:03 +0200, "Wouter Valentijn"   
    wrote:   
      
   >ANIM8Rfsk wrote:   
   >> in article 446db797$0$31642$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl, Wouter Valentijn   
   >> at liam@valentijn.nu wrote on 5/19/06 5:18 AM:   
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   >>>>> Either way... Those 'warp scales' don't seem to account for much.   
   >>>>> Those formulas were never even mentioned on screen afaik.   
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   >>>> Well, there are a few very close mentions, but they are quite rare.   
   >>>   
   >>> Can you cite an example of that?   
   >>>   
   >> ENTERPRISE used the classic TOS warp scale (from the Whitman book)   
   >> which is what placed the Klingon homeworld within .8 light years (or   
   >> whatever it was).   
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   >Yeah...   
   >Err, an example in canon, *on screen* actually saying warp such and such   
   >equals X times c, plus the formula used.   
   >Did Enterprise specifically mention that?   
      
   Actually they did give the time that Enterprise would take to go from   
   Earth to, what was it, Neptune?  However they never established that   
   warp speed is a constant so that warp 5 inside the Solar System is the   
   same speed as warp 5 in interstellar space.   
      
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