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  1. Star Trek: How Fast Warp Speed Is (& How It Compares To Hyperspace)

    According to the Star Trek Encyclopedia, in simple terms, the new warp speed factor 1 is the exact speed of light, 299,792,458 m/s. Each factor above is a multiple of that warp speed, although what those values are vary depending on the show in question. Warp Factor 1 - 1x lightspeed. Warp Factor 2 - 10x lightspeed.

  2. Warp factor

    Star Trek: The Next Generation []. A document dated May 14, 1986 and attributed to Gene Roddenberry places warp 10 at the top of the scale: "Beyond that time-space continuity is disoperative." The corresponding velocity is given as "the speed of light multiplied by the speed of light ten times", whereas warp 2 is now "the speed of light squared", implying a general rule of the speed of light ...

  3. Warp drive

    A warp drive or a drive enabling space warp is a fictional superluminal (faster than the speed of light) spacecraft propulsion system in many science fiction works, most notably Star Trek, and a subject of ongoing physics research. The general concept of "warp drive" was introduced by John W. Campbell in his 1957 novel Islands of Space and was popularized by the Star Trek series.

  4. Star Trek: How Fast Is Warp Speed Exactly?

    As seen in many "Star Trek" episodes, the laws of space-time start to break down entirely once warp 10 is reached. Warp 10 gets defined as infinite speed, which means anything traveling at it ...

  5. Warp drive

    Warp drive or warp engine was a technology that allowed space travel at faster-than-light speeds. It worked by generating warp fields to form a subspace bubble that enveloped the starship, distorting the local spacetime continuum and moving the starship at velocities that could greatly exceed the speed of light. These velocities were referred to as warp factors. Warp drive was the most common ...

  6. Warp Speed Calculator » Star Trek Minutiae

    The Warp Speed Calculator is designed to answer these questions. Simply input two of three variables (speed, distance, and time), and the form will calculate the third for you. It will even convert equivalent units, like years to days, light-years to parsecs, or warp factors to multiples of c. And you, too, can sound like a Treknology expert ...

  7. Maximum warp

    A similar situation occurred in DS9: "The Sound of Her Voice", when the USS Defiant, traveling at maximum warp, accelerates to warp 9.5. According to Star Trek Encyclopedia (3rd ed., p. 556) updated with information up to 2375 and Star Trek: Insurrection, warp factor 9.2 was the normal maximum warp speed of Federation starships.

  8. How Star Trek's Warp Speed Works

    The ability to manipulate space is the most important concept in regard to warp speed. If the Enterprise could warp the space-time continuum by expanding the area behind it and contracting the ...

  9. Watch This Visual Timeline of STAR TREK'S Warp Speed Effect

    Jan 20 2022 • 1:48 PM. "Warp speed" is a term that entered the pop-culture consciousness as soon as Star Trek hit in 1966. Even if you have never seen the show or a single film, or even like ...

  10. Star Trek's Warp Drive Leads to New Physics

    The speed of light is the maximum speed any particle may reach, and a particle can only do so if it has no mass. ... This article was originally published with the title " Star Trek's Warp Drive ...

  11. How Warp Speed Works

    Sometime between the first television series ("Star Trek: The Original Series") and the second ("Star Trek: The Next Generation"), the writers decided to assign a limit to warp speed -- using a scale of Warp-1 to Warp-10, the Enterprise wasn't allowed to travel just anywhere at anytime, seeing as that would make plotting too easy.

  12. Former NASA Scientist Demonstrates Why Star Trek's Warp Speeds Are

    12 October 2019. In the sci-fi universe of "Star Trek", spaceships with warp drives can zoom past the normally impenetrable limit of light speed, or about 186,282 miles per second (299,792 kilometers per second) in a vacuum. This trouncing of theoretical physics makes reaching alien-rich planets across the galaxy seem like just a convenient TV ...

  13. Warp Speed Calculator

    In Star Trek, the warp speed is a velocity scaled by the warp factor. The warp factor formula is inconsistent throughout the series. In the original series, for instance, warp factors were described using the formula v = w³⋅c, where c is the speed of light in a vacuum.

  14. Ex Astris Scientia

    As late as in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" (TMP) warp factors lower than Warp 1 appeared for the first time, when Sulu carefully activated the untested warp drive and slowly accelerated to warp speed. ... Star Trek Encyclopedia: Max. cruise speed of Galaxy class: 9.6: 884.74: 1909: Max. safe speed of Galaxy class (96h) 9.9: 970.30: 3053 : 9 ...

  15. How Star Trek's warp drives touch on one of physics' biggest mysteries

    In the Star Trek universe, humanoid species zoom around the galaxy at speeds faster than light, using warp engines fuelled by antimatter. Travelling faster than the speed of light is unlikely, but ...

  16. 'Star Trek' is back. We look at the physics : Short Wave : NPR

    Warp drive can get ships to light speed and faster in the Star Trek world but space is still HUGE. The Milky Way galaxy is 100,000 light years across so, even at Warp 9, it would take the Star ...

  17. Warp Speeds Chart

    Note: warp 10 is meaningless -- a starship traveling at warp 10 would occupy. all points in the universe simultaneously. Speed: Miles per hour: Times speed of light: Earth to moon: (250,000 miles) Across one sector: (20 light years) To nearby Galaxy: (2,000,000 light years) standard orbit 5.000 0.00001 42 hours 2.000.000 years 223.33 Billion ...

  18. In Star Trek, how fast is warp 9.99?

    The Star Trek Encyclopedia offers some conversion charts. Warp 9.99 is approximately 7,912 times the speed of light. As you can see from the handy diagram below, as you approach Warp 10 (infinite speed), your velocity increases exponentially. Warp 9.9 is half the speed of warp 9.99 and warp 9.9999 is over 30 times faster than warp 9.9, etc.

  19. The Best of Warp Speed!

    This is a compilation of all things Warp Speed from the 11 "Star Trek" movies. It's interesting to see the effects evolve with time...anyway, enjoy, Trekkies...

  20. What the 'Star Trek' warp-speed animation shows

    In the sci-fi series "Star Trek," spaceships rapidly travel from one part of the universe to another using warp drive.; The speed of light in a vacuum is about 186,282 miles per second (299,792 ...

  21. Scientists Get Serious in the Search for a Working Warp Drive

    The most famous example is Star Trek, which relies on the power of its warp drive to traverse the galaxy in a fraction of the time. Galactic journeys that once took centuries could now be wrapped ...

  22. WARP FIVE: David Ajala on Embracing Second Chances and the ...

    Welcome to Warp Five, StarTrek.com's five question post-mortem with your favorite featured talent from the latest Star Trek episodes. The 32nd Century has not been easy for the courier known as Cleveland "Book" Booker. The Dark Matter Anomaly erased everything his home and Kwejian culture from existence entirely, along with his family.

  23. The Ultimate Guide To Sci-Fi's 8 Coolest Power Sources

    Dilithium Crystals And Warp Cores From Star Trek "Star Trek" is the quintessential sci-fi franchise. The first series was ahead of its time, and it accurately predicted countless hi-tech devices .

  24. Speed limit

    Speed limits were imposed by certain authorities in the Milky Way Galaxy, limiting the speed of vehicles, which included the warp factor at which starships were allowed to travel in their territories. The intentions of speed limits were often for safety concerns, such as minimizing the cumulative destructive effect of subspace emissions to the interstellar environment by warp-capable vessels ...

  25. WARP FIVE: Eve Harlow and Elias Toufexis on Star Trek's Unrelenting

    Welcome to Warp Five, StarTrek.com's five question post-mortem with your favorite featured talent from the latest Star Trek episodes. The fifth and final season of Star Trek: Discovery has Captain Burnham and the crew of U.S.S. Discovery chasing a Red Directive mystery that has them on an epic adventure across the galaxy. At the end of the chase is a tool of immense ancient power that's been ...

  26. Transwarp

    Transwarp was a term associated with some technologies that allowed the utilization of speeds that exceeded traditional warp drive limits. (TNG: "Descent") The Federation developed transwarp beaming by 2387. This transporter technology allowed the instantaneous beaming of living beings between planets and distant star systems, or even onto a starship traveling at high warp. The theory was ...

  27. STAR TREK: DISCOVERY Review

    This week's Star Trek: Discovery is a tough one for me. All art is subjective, and all reviews of that art are subjective to at least some degree, but "Whistlespeak" takes things an additional step further by being about a very subjective subject, one that happens to be something I don't really connect with: the social experience of religion and spirituality.