So unrealistic, just woke agenda... Oh.

And the separation of nacelles from the ship makes it more efficient

So that's where all the weird time loops and energy fields just floating in space come from.

Well, Temporal Investigations only cares if you move at a negative speed. And causality just flippin' breaks down and ends the universe if you move instantaneously. Everything else seems to be fair game. So... mostly nobody?

And then back for Picard when the max sustainable is warp 9.99.

To be fair, it does make sense.

"Warp 9.975" (and beyond, for newer ships than the Intrepid) is getting a bit absurd

It's inconsistent. Canonically in most Trek warp 10 asymptotically approaches infinity, which is why you see a lot of nine-point-nine-something when really high speeds come up, but every now and then the writers forget and you'll hear about exceeding warp 10.

You also have things like transwarp, quantum slipstream, or the proto-drive which operate on different principles and don't follow the warp curve. Their equivalent warp factors would just involve stacking up ever more 9s after the decimal point, but their speeds aren't typically expressed in terms of warp.

Capitalists, I guess?

That's a good slogan that one.

"Act your wage."

20 years ago I worked at a shitty chocolate shop in a tourist town that put up a massive banner over the front of the building, opposing the effort to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.

These assholes would have literal temper tantrums if I wasn’t running at full speed through the back of the shop with knee-high sugar boilers cranked full bore, which I could have easily fallen face first into, to fetch whatever the customers wanted in that moment.

Like, you fuckers want maximum effort from me, while actively opposing an increase in the minimum that you are allowed to pay me? Fuck all the way off.

I would sometimes pick up lunch at the Taco Bell across the street and do my best to keep the total below the $6.75 per hour I was being paid. That wasn’t a lot of Taco Bell in 2005.

They're not mutually exclusive. I'm addicted to nicotine, but I've been into vaping as a hobby for 15 years.

Actually, kinda. Space is not a true vacuum, the particles per cubic meter is just really low, low enough that it's basically close enough for most stuff humans do in space. But, IIRC, when you travel at relativistic speeds and keep closing in on light speed, these particles are enough that there's a similar effect to air resistance in terrestrial travel.
I could be wrong though, it's hearsay and I'm not even sure where I got this from. I think it might have been SFAA though.

Edit: found this:

4. Density of Matter in Space

It seems to me that with space travel, the speed of a spacecraft would be limited by the matter in space due to friction. Is this true?

The density of matter in our Galaxy is about 1 particle/cm³ (in the disk, with the halo being less dense). The density of matter in intergalactic space (between galaxies) is about 2 x 10^-31 gm/cm³, mainly hydrogen. At these densities, I don't think one has to worry about friction.

Dr. Louis Barbier

5. Friction in Space

Does friction exist in deep space?

Yes, when two surfaces rub together in outer space, there will be friction. Friction is a surface effect and doesn't depend upon there being air. There is also a force like air resistance from the very sparse gas in space, but it will be very, very small, since space is a very good vacuum.

Dr. Eric Christian

Maybe there's space gas in the future, you don't know

Eh, let’s swap air density for deflectors, and drag for the warp bubble.

But… do you need deflectors at warp? Isn’t the bubble folding space around the obstacles you’d typically need deflectors for?

That someone is you. Otherwise you can just nod and proceed at your own managable pace. Stay safe.

That usually means faster into corrections and aftercare where much more money is lost.

Are you calling yourself the OV-101?

In that case, glide at your own pace. :)

That’s because after four hours the engine is running so hot things start to break or malfunction, inviting a warp core breach that is guaranteed to ruin everyone’s day. Even without any unexpected failures, you’re going to be put into space dock for a refit several years before it was necessary.

Honestly, that just strengthens the allegory. Don’t run yourself hot, even if you can “handle it.” It still puts too much stress on your system. Even if you don’t give yourself a stroke, it will literally lead to an early death.

Every series has at least one of the qualities that makes TNG the best series.

I watched Star Trek because of Lemmy as well.

!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Because it was a metaphor for the US speed limit being 55 for fuel efficiency standards after the 70s oil crisis, and they sort of extended that to be about climate change.

Then when it turned out to be too limiting (har har), they invented "cleaner burning' warp engines. Which would be an obvious next logical step anyway if old warp drives were literally ruining the universe.

Cunningham's law strikes again!

But seriously, thank you for the correction. Because the idea is exactly that, meaning it can't realistically ever reach 10. So the difference between 9.95 and 9.98 is a lot more than most people would think.