Star Trek Warp 5

Warp 5

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Report this Jun. 23 2012, 9:55 pm

I know this might seem ignorant, but why in the world can't they go past warp 5? Is it just because the Vulcans haven't told them how, or is it something else?

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Report this Jun. 24 2012, 2:08 am

they havent learned how to create an engine capable of safly passing warp 5 in Archers era.

Just like the very first cars werent capable of going very fast.

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Report this Jun. 24 2012, 2:34 am

Because warp 1 is too slow for the time period and warp 9 too fast for the period. 5 is a nice happy middle ground for the series. Besides until season 3 they really don't use warp their maximum speed all that much.

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Report this Jun. 24 2012, 6:41 am

But they do achieve warp five in fallen hero but not safely til season for I think when they can go warp 5.06 and then again warp 5.21 maxium.

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Report this Jun. 24 2012, 12:02 pm

Archer's father designed the Warp 5 engine. ENT was in the beginning of warp drive space travel. They had to perfect that before they could go to Warp 9.

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Report this Jun. 26 2012, 2:36 pm

How fast IS warp 5?

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Report this Jun. 26 2012, 8:12 pm

Quote: cochrane2063 @ Jun. 26 2012, 2:36 pm

>How fast IS warp 5?

http://www.star-fleet.com/ed/warp-chart.html

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Report this Sep. 05 2012, 8:53 am

like a bat out of hell baby

found somewhat unrealistic that it took them 90s years to get to warp 5

and 10 years later their at warp 7

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Report this Sep. 05 2012, 10:57 am

Took humans a few decades to figure out computers. Yet in the past ten years, computers have advanced far faster than they had at any other point in their history since they were first created at DARPA.

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Report this Sep. 05 2012, 6:04 pm

Quote: dregj @ Sep. 05 2012, 8:53 am

>found somewhat unrealistic that it took them 90s years to get to warp 5

Keep in mind that warp 1 is the speed of light; warp 5 is 200 times that.

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Report this Sep. 26 2012, 1:26 pm

Quote: cochrane2063 @ Jun. 26 2012, 2:36 pm

>How fast IS warp 5?

144,265,000,000 miles per hour.

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Report this Sep. 28 2012, 7:06 pm

Quote: dregj @ Sep. 05 2012, 8:53 am

>found somewhat unrealistic that it took them 90s years to get to warp 5

You have to remember that the Vulcan High Command stalled Henry Archer and the scientists at the Warp Five Complex for years.

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Report this Sep. 29 2012, 10:52 am

Quote: A.J.Dembroski @ Sep. 26 2012, 1:26 pm

Quote: cochrane2063 @ Jun. 26 2012, 2:36 pm

>How fast IS warp 5?

144,265,000,000 miles per hour.

Is that the TOS warp scale?

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Report this Sep. 30 2012, 5:54 am

How about the ship couldn't take the stress AND the engine technology wasn't there yet?

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Report this Oct. 20 2012, 1:59 pm

Quote: DS9_FOREVER! @ Sep. 29 2012, 10:52 am

Quote: A.J.Dembroski @ Sep. 26 2012, 1:26 pm

Quote: cochrane2063 @ Jun. 26 2012, 2:36 pm

>How fast IS warp 5?

144,265,000,000 miles per hour.

Is that the TOS warp scale?

No, I guess I didn't think of that. I'm not sure what the TOS warp scale is. My understanding is that, like Star Dates, it wasn't really well defined in TOS.