a four panel comic. first panel shows the engine room with a lot of bean canisters that feed people sticking on a wall. second panel shows a neatly array of the people who just ate beans at the back of a spaceship. in the third panel the captain commands "fart". fourth panel is the spaceship going to fart speed as the people who ate beans fart a green glowing gas cloud
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[–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

My complaint is that the warp factor only goes to infinity in the first chart you provided (the old system. i.e. as v –> ∞, fw –> ∞). They changed it from v = fw^3^*c. So warp 3 was 27c for TOS and ENT: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Warp_factor

Warp 10 being infinite is definitely cannon, just ask the haters what the worst episode of Star Trek Voyager is haha

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_(Star_Trek:_Voyager)

(The headline of this wiki article is a little off, he doesn't travel "faster" than warp 10, he travels at warp 10)

Your second graph literally says "warp 10 is infinite velocity", which is the new system. That there are 10 energy thresholds is cool world-building, but basing your velocity scale on it is annoying and unintuitive. When they use these numbers, unless you crack open a calculator, you have no idea how fast it actually is.

In the new system as as v –> ∞, fw –> 10, and I find that annoying.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yeah, I agree with everything, I was just unsure what they said about 10 – my bad on ST lore.

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