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Shuttlecraft going to warp??

From DITL:

Shuttle type: Normal cruise, maximum cruise, maximum rated

Type 6: 1.0, 1.1, 1.20 for 48 hours
Type 7: 1.5, 1.7, 1.75 for 48 hours
Type 8: 2.6, 3.0, 3.20 for 36 hours
Type 9: 3.0, 3.4, 4.00 for 03 hours
Type 10: 4.0, 4.5, 5.00 for 03 hours
Type 11: 5.0, 5.3, 6.00 for 03 hours
Type 17: 3.0, 3.5, 4.00 for 12 hours
Types 3, 15 and 18 are impulse only.
 
curious question for any voyager lovers out there did they show their shuttles going at warp?
(not the flyer)
 
curious question for any voyager lovers out there did they show their shuttles going at warp?
(not the flyer)
Several times, but this is a good example and uses the same Type 6 shuttle which was used on TNG.
https://voy.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/4x06/raven_160.jpg
Extract from The Raven:
CHAKOTAY: She used a site to site transport. She's in a shuttlecraft. Powering engines.
JANEWAY: Seal the launch doors.
(The shuttlecraft smashes through them.)
JANEWAY: Tractor beam.
CHAKOTAY: No effect. She's remodulated the shuttle's shield harmonics.
KIM: Captain, Seven's headed directly into B'omar space. She's gone to warp.
PARIS: She's masked the shuttle's ion trail. I've lost her signal. She's gone.​
 
Warp 2 is just dirt slow .. If your dropped off close to a system, sure but your ship is in system A but you need to go to system B .. At warp 2 that'll take MONTHS

Which, considering how tiny the shuttles appear to be, would basically make them useless for inter-stellar travel, wouldn't it? Though if they have a replicator on board at least there wouldn't be a problem with food/water storage (though maybe with energy?)
I just don't know enough about Star Trek tech, I'm just not a technological person.
 
My knowledge of voyager is a little sketchy as I fucking hated it and dropped out after a while.It's nice to know they finally committed to the warp speed shuttle thing
 
My knowledge of voyager is a little sketchy as I fucking hated it and dropped out after a while.It's nice to know they finally committed to the warp speed shuttle thing
It was becoming more explicit by the latter years of TNG too - for example in Genesis an experimental torpedo goes off course and ends up 2 light years away from the ship (which is stationary at the time). Picard & Data take a shuttle to retrieve it and are back within 3 days - that's better than Warp 6 on the official TNG scale.
 
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