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So on this Christmas morning, Han Solo was boasting that the Millenium Falcon can make warp 1.15, which is 1.5c.

Anyways, like EC Henry, I had thought of something when I was working on the ECS Constellation:

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And that's the evolution of Star Trek's warp scale.

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Early on before the warp scale became more publicly known, it was common sense the lower the warp factor, the slower the ship goes. And of course the higher the warp factor, the faster the ship goes so they didn't have to say how fast the Enterprise can travel at warp.

These days, everyone knows on Those Old Scientists, the warp scale was the warp factor to the power of 3 times light speed. Where warp 1 is light speed, warp 2 is 8c, warp 3 is 27c, and so forth.

The first time I read about the TOS warp scale was from a book called Everything You Wanted To Know About Star Trek. Before then, I thought warp 1 was light speed, warp 2 was twice the speed of light, warp 3 was three times, and so forth. Like Blake 7's Liberator with standard by 4, standard by 8, etc.

So when you have a ship like the NX-Alpha that achieved 8c, and it's warp factor 2, not 8c or standard by 8, or whatever. Or even warp 8.

I think it's safe to say we can thank the Vulcans for the warp scale, that may have inadvertently crushed the dreams of those who achieved warp flight of being so fast.

But why the scale in universe?

The Star Trek: The Next Generation technical manual probably answered this under 15.9 Reduced Power Mode on page 170.

"Spacecraft flight operations are to be conducted in a conservative manner. If warp travel is deemed necessary, speeds greater than integral warp factors are not allowed due to lesser efficiencies at fractional warp factors (i.e., it is permitted to travel at Warp 2.0 or Warp 3.0, but not Warp 2.5 or 3.4)."

But even before that, maintaining an exact number of C's is less efficient, and therefore increasing the efficiency of the engine, especially with minor power fluctuations. So at warp 4 that's 64c, a power fluctuation of say 2% can range from warp 3.97 to warp 4.03 -- or 62.72c and 65.28c which is a difference of 2.56c, or warp 1.37 and not warp 0.06.

Imagine trying to match warp velocities for transport on, "The Best of Both Worlds." Staying within 40,000 km while traveling at 563,713,124.6 km/s as exact as possible.

And the faster you travel, the greater the variance in terms of number of C's. So needless to say, a scale would be necessary.

So it was deemed that the power of 3 was best suited, especially with simplicity, and the potential of increasingly faster ships of approaching warp 6 or 7, and allowing for a 2% variance that's 13.72c at warp 7, or the variance equal to warp 2.39.

The 563,713,124.6 km/s was using the TNG warp scale that is the warp factor to the power of 10/3 times light speed for warp 9.6. Though warp 9-10 has a different scale than TNG's warp 1-9, I decided to use 1-9 as, "Threshold," was the only episode to date to canonize it, while, "Where No One Has Gone Before," and, "All Good Things," decaninized it.

Besides, I hope either Discovery season 5 or Picard season 3 has warp 13.

I used the ECS Constellation without the cargo boom, pods radiators behind the ship.

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So on this Christmas morning, Han Solo was boasting that the Millenium Falcon can make warp 1.15, which is 1.5c.

Anyways, like EC Henry, I had thought of something when I was working on the ECS Constellation:

www.deviantart.com/newdivide17…

And that's the evolution of Star Trek's warp scale.

-----------------------------------------------------------------

www.paypal.com/paypalme/newdiv…

e-transfer: newdivide1701@yahoo.ca

-----------------------------------------------------------------

Early on before the warp scale became more publicly known, it was common sense the lower the warp factor, the slower the ship goes. And of course the higher the warp factor, the faster the ship goes so they didn't have to say how fast the Enterprise can travel at warp.

These days, everyone knows on Those Old Scientists, the warp scale was the warp factor to the power of 3 times light speed. Where warp 1 is light speed, warp 2 is 8c, warp 3 is 27c, and so forth.

The first time I read about the TOS warp scale was from a book called Everything You Wanted To Know About Star Trek. Before then, I thought warp 1 was light speed, warp 2 was twice the speed of light, warp 3 was three times, and so forth. Like Blake 7's Liberator with standard by 4, standard by 8, etc.

So when you have a ship like the NX-Alpha that achieved 8c, and it's warp factor 2, not 8c or standard by 8, or whatever. Or even warp 8.

I think it's safe to say we can thank the Vulcans for the warp scale, that may have inadvertently crushed the dreams of those who achieved warp flight of being so fast.

But why the scale in universe?

The Star Trek: The Next Generation technical manual probably answered this under 15.9 Reduced Power Mode on page 170.

"Spacecraft flight operations are to be conducted in a conservative manner. If warp travel is deemed necessary, speeds greater than integral warp factors are not allowed due to lesser efficiencies at fractional warp factors (i.e., it is permitted to travel at Warp 2.0 or Warp 3.0, but not Warp 2.5 or 3.4)."

But even before that, maintaining an exact number of C's is less efficient, and therefore increasing the efficiency of the engine, especially with minor power fluctuations. So at warp 4 that's 64c, a power fluctuation of say 2% can range from warp 3.97 to warp 4.03 -- or 62.72c and 65.28c which is a difference of 2.56c, or warp 1.37 and not warp 0.06.

Imagine trying to match warp velocities for transport on, "The Best of Both Worlds." Staying within 40,000 km while traveling at 563,713,124.6 km/s as exact as possible.

And the faster you travel, the greater the variance in terms of number of C's. So needless to say, a scale would be necessary.

So it was deemed that the power of 3 was best suited, especially with simplicity, and the potential of increasingly faster ships of approaching warp 6 or 7, and allowing for a 2% variance that's 13.72c at warp 7, or the variance equal to warp 2.39.

The 563,713,124.6 km/s was using the TNG warp scale that is the warp factor to the power of 10/3 times light speed for warp 9.6. Though warp 9-10 has a different scale than TNG's warp 1-9, I decided to use 1-9 as, "Threshold," was the only episode to date to canonize it, while, "Where No One Has Gone Before," and, "All Good Things," decaninized it.

Besides, I hope either Discovery season 5 or Picard season 3 has warp 13.

I used the ECS Constellation without the cargo boom, pods radiators behind the ship.