Anybody have a guess as to La Sirena's maximum warp? She's said to be slower than Kar Kantar's bird-of-prey, but still makes it good distances pretty fast (when using standard warp, not transwarp conduits). Earth to Alpha Doradus (Freecloud) is 169 light years. At warp 8, that's a 60 day journey, and it sure didn't feel like there was two months between leaving Earth and getting to Freecloud, even with the side trip to Vashti. Could advances in warp tech since Voyager's return 22 years ago mean that speeds of warp 9+ are easier to achieve and much more commonplace in 2399 than in the 2370s?
I would assume so since the need for faster Warp Engines are always necessary given that Space is constantly expanding in all directions, even if space expansion was STL, it's had plenty of time to expand and is constantly expanding, that ever growing gap between the stars and Galaxies is only getting larger.
According to my calculations @ Warp 8 it would take "La Sirena" ~60.281 Days which is inline with your calculations.
@ Warp 9 it would take "La Sirena" ~40.707 Days
@ Warp 9.9 it would take "La Sirena" ~2.843 Days
I base my evidence on the on screen statement of Tom Paris for Warp 9.9 in the episode of
VOY: "
The 37's"
Which is very close to my Warp Factor 20 if you take the TNG Warp Factor formula, and let it run it's course onto infinity instead of using a hand drawn curve after Warp 9 (NOTE: I still think it was a dumb move on the Creative staff to do that)
WF 20 according to my TNG scale unleashed: Speed = 21,715.3409327592 c
Tom Paris statement of "
Warp 9.9. In your terms, that's about four billion miles a second." is equivalent to ~21,473 c
@ WF 20, the closest equivalent to Warp 9.9 on my scale, it would take the "La Sirena" ~ 2.843 days to get there at continuous speed.
Near the end of ST:VOY, we have Voyager being able to hit WF 9.975, USS Prometheus hitting WF 9.99
So having smaller vessels like the "La Sirena" hitting Warp 9.9 for days on end 20+ years after VOY era seems reasonable.
