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From: ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net
In article ,
"Fozzi" wrote:
> "Anim8rFSK" wrote in message
> news:ANIM8Rfsk-6A2FB1.09315923092006@news.west.cox.net...
> > In article ,
> > "Fozzi" wrote:
> >
> >> "David Johnston" wrote in message
> >> news:2d3s62hb2ohm91qn196mud3toqr89pf0nq@4ax.com...
> >> > On Fri, 19 May 2006 19:35:03 +0200, "Wouter Valentijn"
> >> >
> >> > 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.
> >>
> >>
> >> mind you this is still a fairly uncertain figure, given that there are a
> >> couple of light days distance between its orbital apogee and perogee, it
> >> isnt really a definiable quantity if we dont know the relative orbital
> >> positions of neptune and earth or at least the date (which would mean we
> >> could make a fairly accurate guestimate of those positions)
> >>
> >> cheers
> >> fozzi
> >
> > You don't need the distances; Archer said how fast they were going, in
> > real world numbers. They said how fast Enterprise could go, and how
> > long it took to get to the Klingon homeworld, and it puts the Klingons
> > .8 light years from us. It's like a couple guys in a car leaving San
> > Francisco and saying "This baby will hit 120 mph on the freeway, so
> > we'll be to New York in an hour!"
>
> actually you missed my point, which is strange considering that the next
> post i read after posting mine was your one which specifically answered my
> point, oh well i said light days instead of light hours so im not in a
> position to criticise to much
I think you missed my point. We don't CARE how many light hours it is;
Archer says (I forget the figures) "We're going Warp 4.5, XXX kilometers
per second!" It even worked out to be the old warp factor cubed scale
from the Whitfield book. The only problem is, the length of time to
travel to the Klingon homeworld puts it under a light year away. And
there are planets along the way.
The thing is, that was so STUPID. The episode, and Enterprise, would
have played better if the Klingons had been WEEKS or MONTHS away.
Nothing happened on the trip anyway, and a longer trip would have played
better with the 'he's badly hurt for this long a trip" bit. If the
Klingons were a couple days away, we'd be part of their empire.
>
> cheers
> fozzi
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