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I'M A LITTLE CONFUSED!!!

This quote from Paris comes to mind: "Faster than light, no left and right."

I always assumed that warp speed is so fast that they can only go in 1 direction, and cant make any course corrections until they drop out of warp.

Wasn't that line contradicted in a load of other episodes anyway? It was just put in to explain that week's bogus technoplot.

Perhaps.

But if you think about it, it does make sense. If you have a vector traveling at incredible speeds. Any deviation in the vector even by a few degrees would likely cause it to crash into something that's in the line of the vector.
 
This quote from Paris comes to mind: "Faster than light, no left and right."

I always assumed that warp speed is so fast that they can only go in 1 direction, and cant make any course corrections until they drop out of warp.

Wasn't that line contradicted in a load of other episodes anyway? It was just put in to explain that week's bogus technoplot.

Perhaps.

But if you think about it, it does make sense. If you have a vector traveling at incredible speeds. Any deviation in the vector even by a few degrees would likely cause it to crash into something that's in the line of the vector.

That'S what a NavComputer is for. DUH:devil:
 
Wasn't that line contradicted in a load of other episodes anyway? It was just put in to explain that week's bogus technoplot.

Perhaps.

But if you think about it, it does make sense. If you have a vector traveling at incredible speeds. Any deviation in the vector even by a few degrees would likely cause it to crash into something that's in the line of the vector.

That'S what a NavComputer is for. DUH:devil:

Yes but the nav computer have to track everything in the vicinity of the ship up to atleast a few hundred light years if not thousands. It has to track every single movement of every object any gravitational fields. And any course correction while in warp require a real time calucations of every single object its tracking. The computation would be too much to handle in real time, thus its safer to make any course corrections while out of warp.
 
Didn't they establish this in TMP ? I seem to recall when the Enterprise left Kirk said they had to wait until outside the solar system before going to warp.
And then decided to take a sight-seeing trip past Jupiter, instead of just flying up or down. V'Ger can wait!
 
that rules is as iron clad as speed limits on freeways.

Which rule? No turns at warp, or no warping in system? Not that it matters, as neither is even remotely iron clad. There are plenty examples of both these "rules" being broken in virtually every incarnation of Trek.
 
Contrary to what we see in the shows and movies, star systems are probably very busy with starship traffic. Not to mention you have a lot of large obstacles around, ie planets, which have to be avoided. Like our system, there could be asteroid belts and warping through those would probably not be a good idea.
 
Contrary to what we see in the shows and movies, star systems are probably very busy with starship traffic. Not to mention you have a lot of large obstacles around, ie planets, which have to be avoided. Like our system, there could be asteroid belts and warping through those would probably not be a good idea.

Asteroid fields are extraordinarily un-dense. Throwing a starship-sized object through the belt between Mars and Jupiter at random and actually hitting something would be immensely unlikely.

Traffic, on the other hand, is definitely a concern. :)

Something that just occurred to me: you're right, we don't see a lot of that traffic, but maybe there's a tremendous amount of traffic that we can't see. Transporter beams are always invisible, but I bet plowing a starship through the thousands--or tens of thousands!--that are active at any time around say, Earth or Bajor, would be pretty dangerous.

This explains why Kirk doesn't give a crap about doing it in TVH--how many transporter beams were operating in 1980s? :p
 
Given we've seen starships manoeuvre at warp (e.g. the Ent D battle section puling a u-turn in Encounter At Farpoint) I think it's fair to say that the 'no left or right' business is not an actual physical law.
 
Did Berman ever respect Star Trek cannon? No.

That's why they can warp in solar systems.
 
Did Berman ever respect Star Trek cannon? No.

That's why they can warp in solar systems.

Sorry, but warping in systems was pretty commonplace in TOS, as was maneuvering at warp. Those things were "canon". It's not warping in system, and not being able to turn in warp that are the Berman era violations of previously established "canon".
 
It could be that Bajor's sun emits unique "Type 17" radiation that makes in-system warping very dangerous. DS9 is relatively safe since it's way out by the Denorios belt, so they warp in and out all the time. This would fit with the episode since they were warping towards, and very close to, Bajor's sun.
 
It's not warping in system, and not being able to turn in warp that are the Berman era violations of previously established "canon".

Not going to warp in a solar system was actually before Berman, since it was in TMP when this was first established with Kirk saying they may have to risk going to warp within the solar system.
 
But since they did it all the time in TOS we have to assume that there's some kind of special circumstances that make it risky like the risk being due to untested engines. Untested engines can cause unpredictable problems, like say... an unstable wormhole.
 
This would fit with the episode since they were warping towards, and very close to, Bajor's sun.

I think that is a more acceptable reason why Kira was so upset that they were going to warp inside the Bajoran system. They were headed towards their sun. Any miscalculation, by pilot or computer in dropping out of warp would have the ship flying into Bajor's sun. However, it was correctly pointed out that not attempting to stop Changeling Bashir would have resulted in the destruction of Bajor and the nearby fleet. The "lesser of two evils" thing.

Everyother warping out of a star system, was warping out of a star system. They could have been moving directly away from the star, or set a course that would put them well out of the star's path.
 
Oh sure... if you like simple and reasonable explanations I guess you could go with that one.
 
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