Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: mchammer187
Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Just FYI.
The unit Warp is actually this;
Warp x= c^x
where c = speed of light.
i am pretty sure it is faster than that
cuz even at warp 10 they would take a year to travel to something 10 light years away
IIRC in Voyager they were something like 200,000 light years way from the alpha quadrant
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didnt see the ^
i am retarded
In the Star Trek universe, warp 10 is impossible to attain. There's one TNG episode where some time thingy brought the Enterprise from the future back and it had 3 nacells and could travel faster than warp 10, but everything else in the Star Trek universe that ever talks about warp never talks about going over warp 10 and I vaguely remember reading somewhere that warp 10 was an impossibility.
Not quite true. In TNG the traveler guy had them go so fast they left the universe! In TOS they also went past 10. They also might have even went faster than 10 in the TNG warp wave bs episode. Warp 10 is supposed to be a technical limit to the warp drive, but can be convienently shattered for dramatic effect.
Warp speed used to be based on simulating a black hole that warps the space between two points so that the distance traveled is less. It had nothing really to do with physically traveling faster than light. Space is distorted so the distance traveled is less, getting you there faster. A torpedo fired in this state should travel at its normal speed relative to the ship it was fired from. From there you would think that there would be some sling shot like effect if the field was disrupted, but since it wasn't traveling faster than normal to begin with the speed should be normal.
But as TNG progressed, the physics of the Star Trek Universe changed from week to week. So there is no wrong answer in TNG+.