Time dilation?
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There was a reference to such a project - but no certainty that the project would ever succeed.
OTOH, both Vulcan and Klingon starships of the time easily attained warp six. Since Vulcans supposedly would become solid allies to the Earthlings, a "warp five barrier" would make little sense. Several UFP vessels would be capable of exceeding it from the get-go!
On the "The Cage" claim of "the time barrier being broken", we can think up half a dozen explanations that try to belittle or negate this odd line. After all, the bulk of Star Trek pseudohistory doesn't seem to be suggesting that anything radically important happened to warp propulsion in the first half of the 23rd century.
-Perhaps the Time Barrier indeed was related to how fancy time-dilation effects plagued the early high-warp ships. When the engineers figured out a way to avoid that time dilation, high-warp flight became more practicable.
- Perhaps the Tyme Barrier was a barrier limiting the performance of antimatter powerplants - a technical obstacle, or a financial one. When the engineers figured a way around that one, the new ships could be equipped with better engines that could sustain warp six for longer than the previous ships. The ships didn't have a higher top speed, they just had a higher average speed, which made all the difference.
- Perhaps the Taym Barrier was a physical wall of some sort, blocking space travel in a certain region. Breaching it, with the help of the new, more heavily protected or armed ships, then allowed for shortcuts that would shorten the homeward trip of the Columbia survivors.
- Etc.
Timo Saloniemi
OTOH, both Vulcan and Klingon starships of the time easily attained warp six. Since Vulcans supposedly would become solid allies to the Earthlings, a "warp five barrier" would make little sense. Several UFP vessels would be capable of exceeding it from the get-go!
On the "The Cage" claim of "the time barrier being broken", we can think up half a dozen explanations that try to belittle or negate this odd line. After all, the bulk of Star Trek pseudohistory doesn't seem to be suggesting that anything radically important happened to warp propulsion in the first half of the 23rd century.
-Perhaps the Time Barrier indeed was related to how fancy time-dilation effects plagued the early high-warp ships. When the engineers figured out a way to avoid that time dilation, high-warp flight became more practicable.
- Perhaps the Tyme Barrier was a barrier limiting the performance of antimatter powerplants - a technical obstacle, or a financial one. When the engineers figured a way around that one, the new ships could be equipped with better engines that could sustain warp six for longer than the previous ships. The ships didn't have a higher top speed, they just had a higher average speed, which made all the difference.
- Perhaps the Taym Barrier was a physical wall of some sort, blocking space travel in a certain region. Breaching it, with the help of the new, more heavily protected or armed ships, then allowed for shortcuts that would shorten the homeward trip of the Columbia survivors.
- Etc.
Timo Saloniemi
He's suffering from tyme dilation.
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TIME: Talos Illusion Matrix Energy
^ So I guess they had to bide their thyme while producing those engines. 
ProtoAvatar
Fleet Captain
Only one problem, LCARS 24:
Special Relativity easily allows for time travel into the future - simply by accelerating to near the speed of light.
And Relativity allows for time travel into the past, too - ex by flying around a spining singularity, using the relativity of simultaneity in conjunction with frame-dragging.
Time dilation is actually one of the least 'weird' aspects of special relativity
