I'M A LITTLE CONFUSED!!!
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I always assumed that ships can go to warp inside a system, its a matter of calculating power of your navigation computer. As long as the vector you chose doesnt have an obstruction in its path you can do it. The difficulty of doing it in a system is that planets are moving and various gravitational effects can happen that change the vector of your travel, making it unsafe to go to warp.
If that were true then how did Z Concran go to warp?
And yet, in the Demons/Terra Prime two-parter of ENT, when Robocop wants to take his Moonbase to warp within the solar system, Trip and T'Pol are shocked proclaiming "You can't warp within the solar system, you'll tear the ship apart."
It's been a little while since I saw that episode, but weren't they commenting because they were going to warp from the Moon to Mars, indicating that such a short distance would be dangerous?
They were bluffing.
and ROBO was in there? I didn't see him, but I did see the actor who played him, Peter Weller.
They were bluffing.
I often refer to different characters by the name of the character that particular actor is well known for playing. Therefore I refer to Peter Weller as Robocop. I always called Brent Spiner's character in Threshold Data, much to the annoyance of many. And I have frequently referred to Steve Bacic's character in BSG Razor as Rhade and no one has corrected me since Razor first aired.
Hell, I need to start referring to Paul McGillion's Trek XI character as Sgt. Beckett.
I would imagine that that has more to do with the fact that it's a retrofitted moon base and not a starship than with the relative danger of in-system 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.
I wondered the same thing with ST X1. The answer is the guys who did this new movie have no concept of what Star Trelk is about. They probably never even watched it before being asked to do the movie. It's all about money. As a true Trekker I am more than disgusted and not a little sorry for them.
Nope.
If by "of late" you mean "within the last 40 years", then yeah that makes sense.
Just about every episode of TOS and early TNG ends with the Enterprise going to warp right in a planet's orbit.
And the Defiant does it anyway, clearly showing that it's possible. So what's the problem?
That may have been because the engines were new, untested, and possibly not yet fully synchronised.
Pure speculation on my part, but perhaps being within a gravity well adds additional complications. If your engines are operating within parameters you can easily compensate. Even prototype designs can get lucky (I'm looking at you, Zephram Cochrane!). But if you've got untested engines, it's smarter to wait until you are out of the well before going to warp.
Well that's because the Moonbase is a base first and not warpship. It's not tested for that kinda rapid acceleration and decceleration needed for an in-system warp.
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