I am pretty sure that I am not the only person who, while driving down the road, has occasionally fantasized being captain of a Federation spacecraft and replacing the road with an open starfield; especially if it is a long freeway drive and the stars are visible overhead.
That is exactly what I was doing earlier today, and as I cruised from Seattle down to Tacoma, I did some serious thinking about the best way to compare MPH to the speeds at which the Enterprise travels, proportionately.
By the time I reached home, I had come up with this wonderful little diagram in my head which attributes handy TREK-compatable titles to speeds to which we can personally relate in the 21st century:
MPH
1-9 = Auxiliary Thrusters Only
10+ = 1/4 Impulse
20+ = 1/2 Impulse
30+ = 3/4 Impulse
40+ = Full Impulse
55+ = Warp 1
60+ = Warp 2
65+ = Warp 4
70+ = Warp 6
75+ = Warp 8
80+ = Warp 9
85+ = Warp 9.5
90+ = All Good Things must come to an end...
It all started off a while back when I created a simpler algorithm which suggested that 10 MPH = Warp 1, 20 = W2, and so on; but after a short while of thinking on it, I realized that it just didn't make sense to be travelling at the equivalent of Warp Factor 1 while in a parking lot.
That is exactly what I was doing earlier today, and as I cruised from Seattle down to Tacoma, I did some serious thinking about the best way to compare MPH to the speeds at which the Enterprise travels, proportionately.
By the time I reached home, I had come up with this wonderful little diagram in my head which attributes handy TREK-compatable titles to speeds to which we can personally relate in the 21st century:
MPH
1-9 = Auxiliary Thrusters Only
10+ = 1/4 Impulse
20+ = 1/2 Impulse
30+ = 3/4 Impulse
40+ = Full Impulse
55+ = Warp 1
60+ = Warp 2
65+ = Warp 4
70+ = Warp 6
75+ = Warp 8
80+ = Warp 9
85+ = Warp 9.5
90+ = All Good Things must come to an end...
It all started off a while back when I created a simpler algorithm which suggested that 10 MPH = Warp 1, 20 = W2, and so on; but after a short while of thinking on it, I realized that it just didn't make sense to be travelling at the equivalent of Warp Factor 1 while in a parking lot.
