How fast is warp???

[Puddle-Jumper]

How fast is it??? Like is warp 9 nine times faster then light or what?? or is warp a totally different mesurment of speed

[PG15]

There is actually a fairely well defined scale for Warp drive. However, the scale is different between the time of the original series and the time of the later ones (including ENT).

For TOS, your speed is the cube of your warp factor. ie. Warp 2 = 8 times speed of light.

For TNG and onward, it's a little more complicated, but suffice it to say, the warp factors denote higher speeds. There's a few warp speed calculators online:

http://home.att.net/~srschmitt/script_warpcalc.html

Still, they're no match for Hyperdrives.

[Puddle-Jumper]

There is actually a fairely well defined scale for Warp drive. However, the scale is different between the time of the original series and the time of the later ones (including ENT).

For TOS, your speed is the cube of your warp factor. ie. Warp 2 = 8 times speed of light.

For TNG and onward, it's a little more complicated, but suffice it to say, the warp factors denote higher speeds. There's a few warp speed calculators online:

http://home.att.net/~srschmitt/script_warpcalc.html

Still, they're no match for Hyperdrives.

Actually hyperdrive is easily worked out.......beyotch and thanks!!

[DigiFluid]

Wikipedia has a pretty solid entry on this as well:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warp_speed#Warp_velocities

[Frinky]

How does Hyperdrive compare with Warp? I don't know anything about Hyperdrive...

[Missster.Freeman]

I've always wondered about that myself. Are there any real figures for the speed of Stargate Hyperdrives? surely it isn't just 0 to Pegasus Galaxy in 3 Days? (Using the magical Asgard engine) Come on, I want some real numbers please.

[DigiFluid]

Well that might be a bit difficult to figure out, since they've never specified which Pegasus galaxy Atlantis takes place in

There are two, the Pegasus Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy and the Pegasus Dwarf Irregular Galaxy

[PG15]

One thing is plainly obvious however: hyperdrives are waaaaaay faster than warp drive.

Even if we don't know how far Peg. is away, it's still another galaxy. In Trek, no ship has ever went to another galaxy, at warp, in ordinary circumstances.

[rarocks24]

There was that one time with the Enterprise. And that person who you think I know the name of, you know, the Traveller, he was kinda ascendedlike.

Alright, that website posted by PG15 has led to the biggest plot hole in the Star Trek saga. It should have taken Voyager only 16 years to get back to Earth. IIRC, Voyager's max warp factor was 9.79

Well, according to this.

[PG15]

I did say "under normal circumstances"

And since most Starfleet ships (by which I mean all of them) can't maintain max warp for more than a few hours before being torn apart, Voyager would've taken significantly longer to get home than just 16 years (again, under normal circumstances ). Not to mention all of the exploratory stuff they got into every other week.

[Spacegirlnz]

In the first episode they estimated it's take 60 years to get home. In the last episode it was 16 years ontop of the 7 thye had already travelled and they took advantage of every opportunity to go faster.

[jds1982]

In the first episode they estimated it's take 60 years to get home. In the last episode it was 16 years ontop of the 7 thye had already travelled and they took advantage of every opportunity to go faster.

Not every oppurtunity. They could have modified Voyager to go warp 10, sure they would have all turned into lizards, but they could have been turned back.

[Spacegirlnz]

No, I mean after the 7 years we saw. That's what old Janeway said. And I think she said they found a wormhole too. Yeah...

[newtrekker]

There was that one time with the Enterprise. And that person who you think I know the name of, you know, the Traveller, he was kinda ascendedlike.

Alright, that website posted by PG15 has led to the biggest plot hole in the Star Trek saga. It should have taken Voyager only 16 years to get back to Earth. IIRC, Voyager's max warp factor was 9.79

Well, according to this.

I thought Voyager's maximum sustainable warp factor was 9.975. Cause I remember in the pilot the Betazoid, forgotten her name. on the shuttle went through the specs for Voyager. If that's true, with the TNG warp factor version it would take only just over 5 years.

[The_Carpenter]

You guys seen to be forgetting that voyager didn't/ couldn't plot a course direct to earth as it would involve crossing the galactic core where i believe there is a massive black hole.

That site obviously calculates travel time based on a direct straight line and thus cannot be that helpful when the course has to go around a area of space.