How far did the Enterprise travel in "Where No One Has Gone Before"?

[The Rock]

I know it traveled to a very, very far away galaxy where thought and matter became one, but is it possible it had traveled to the edge of the known universe?!

And if so, can you imagine what would have happened if The Traveler had brought them even further out?

It boggles the mind.

God how I wish we could have learned more about that galaxy. Hell, I wish we could have learned more about the M-33 galaxy they stopped by at on the way to there.

Our universe is so vast! Think of it...our most distant probes are only now leaving our star system to visit another after multiple decades of travel. And intergalactic travel, as exemplified in this episode, seems next to impossible if we haven't even reached the Alpha Centauri system yet. I sure hope warp travel or a similar technology is actually possible for us lowly humans, otherwise we'll be stuck in a single sector of our galaxy for the remainder of the span of our civilization.

 

[Buddy Peabody]

Re: How far did the Enterprise travel in "Where No One Has Gone Before

Why would the "edge" (really, an inaccurate phrasing) of the known universe be any different than the "unknown" parts of the universe?

Besides, if you watch the episode closely, it's pretty clear that the Traveler transported the ship to a rave located in an intergalactic void.

 

[MikeS]

Re: How far did the Enterprise travel in "Where No One Has Gone Before

The vastness of the Universe makes my head spin.

 

[Shikarnov]

Re: How far did the Enterprise travel in "Where No One Has Gone Before

Why would the "edge" (really, an inaccurate phrasing) of the known universe be any different than the "unknown" parts of the universe?

Besides, if you watch the episode closely, it's pretty clear that the Traveler transported the ship to a rave located in an intergalactic void.

Perhaps edge is a misnomer, but I think they're referring to the outermost reaches matter. One can only imagine that there's infinite space in the universe, but that beyond the Big Bang's reach, it's ultimately it's a whole lot of nothing.

 

[Shikarnov]

Re: How far did the Enterprise travel in "Where No One Has Gone Before

Our universe is so vast! Think of it...our most distant probes are only now leaving our star system to visit another after multiple decades of travel.

What I can't imagine is future generations of humanity, with all the advances in science and technology they'll enjoy, being very pleased with what 1970s technology transmits back from Alpha Centauri -- or wherever it ends up.

 

[TigerOfDarkness]

Re: How far did the Enterprise travel in "Where No One Has Gone Before

Our universe is so vast! Think of it...our most distant probes are only now leaving our star system to visit another after multiple decades of travel.

What I can't imagine is future generations of humanity, with all the advances in science and technology they'll enjoy, being very pleased with what 1970s technology transmits back from Alpha Centauri -- or wherever it ends up.

Sadly the Voyagers' nuclear power supplies will run out in a few years...

 

[Shikarnov]

Re: How far did the Enterprise travel in "Where No One Has Gone Before

Our universe is so vast! Think of it...our most distant probes are only now leaving our star system to visit another after multiple decades of travel.

What I can't imagine is future generations of humanity, with all the advances in science and technology they'll enjoy, being very pleased with what 1970s technology transmits back from Alpha Centauri -- or wherever it ends up.

Sadly the Voyagers' nuclear power supplies will run out in a few years...

Oh. Well, that puts a bit of a damper things...

 

[MacLeod]

Re: How far did the Enterprise travel in "Where No One Has Gone Before

Our universe is so vast! Think of it...our most distant probes are only now leaving our star system to visit another after multiple decades of travel.

What I can't imagine is future generations of humanity, with all the advances in science and technology they'll enjoy, being very pleased with what 1970s technology transmits back from Alpha Centauri -- or wherever it ends up.

Sadly the Voyagers' nuclear power supplies will run out in a few years...

Hopefully not before Voyager 1, sends back the message NASA is waiting to hear that the solar wind has finally given out and it has pased the Heliopause and entered Interstellar space, which should happen sometime in 2014.

By that time Voyager 1 will be almost 40 years old, I doubt the engineers and scientist who put the probe/mission together in the 70's would have thought we would still be listening to it almost 40 years later.

 

[That Weirdo In The Corner]

Re: How far did the Enterprise travel in "Where No One Has Gone Before

By that time Voyager 1 will be almost 40 years old, I doubt the engineers and scientist who put the probe/mission together in the 70's would have thought we would still be listening to it almost 40 years later.

They built things to last back then. An amazing feat for everyone involved.

Just imagine the outcry if they tried to launch a nuclear powered probe now.

 

[Gary7]

Re: How far did the Enterprise travel in "Where No One Has Gone Before

It was the beginning of Star Trek. They hadn't even thought out the extent of the Federation, let alone how far a starship would go at full warp speed. Based on later Star Trek series, it appears that WNMHGB did the impossible. I just overlook it. It's too complicated to try "fitting it in" with the rest of the Star Trek universe.

 

[Gary7]

Re: How far did the Enterprise travel in "Where No One Has Gone Before

Sadly the Voyagers' nuclear power supplies will run out in a few years...

But TanRu will find it, merge with it, and give it new life.

 

[DonIago]

Re: How far did the Enterprise travel in "Where No One Has Gone Before

It was the beginning of Star Trek. They hadn't even thought out the extent of the Federation, let alone how far a starship would go at full warp speed. Based on later Star Trek series, it appears that WNMHGB did the impossible. I just overlook it. It's too complicated to try "fitting it in" with the rest of the Star Trek universe.

^Nice sentiment but wrong episode.

 

[icantsurf]

Re: How far did the Enterprise travel in "Where No One Has Gone Before

Perhaps edge is a misnomer, but I think they're referring to the outermost reaches matter. One can only imagine that there's infinite space in the universe, but that beyond the Big Bang's reach, it's ultimately it's a whole lot of nothing.

I don't think this is necessarily true as the Big Bang was not an explosion of matter in spacetime, it was an explosion of matter and spacetime.

 

[MacLeod]

Re: How far did the Enterprise travel in "Where No One Has Gone Before

By that time Voyager 1 will be almost 40 years old, I doubt the engineers and scientist who put the probe/mission together in the 70's would have thought we would still be listening to it almost 40 years later.

They built things to last back then. An amazing feat for everyone involved.

Just imagine the outcry if they tried to launch a nuclear powered probe now.

Well the Cassini-Huygen's probe launched in 97 was nuclear powered

 

[Smellincoffee]

Re: How far did the Enterprise travel in "Where No One Has Gone Before

Our universe is so vast! Think of it...our most distant probes are only now leaving our star system to visit another after multiple decades of travel.

What I can't imagine is future generations of humanity, with all the advances in science and technology they'll enjoy, being very pleased with what 1970s technology transmits back from Alpha Centauri -- or wherever it ends up.

Sadly the Voyagers' nuclear power supplies will run out in a few years...

Wouldn't they still keep moving at their present speeds? There's no inertia in space. I suppose the power is needed for more than forward motion, though.

 

[T'Girl]

Re: How far did the Enterprise travel in "Where No One Has Gone Before

Based on later Star Trek series, it appears that WNMHGB did the impossible. I just overlook it. It's too complicated to try "fitting it in" with the rest of the Star Trek universe.

Why wouldn't it fit? The Federation, at least in Picard's time, is six thousand light years long, the nearest "edge" of the galaxy is twelve hundred light years from Earth, the top of the thin disc of the Milky Way galaxy.

Fits just fine.