TOS warp scale

[Noname Given]

Would have gotten Voyage home in a comfortable ten months.

And it would square with the many times someone in a TOS episode said: "We've been thrown halfway across the Galaxy." Yet get back to where they're supposed to be fairly quickly.

 

[Tenacity]

"We've been thrown halfway across the Galaxy."

Most likely hyperbole.

 

[RColtrane]

LUDICROUS SPEED is faster than the fastest warp speed.

 

[wayoung]

I prefer the improbability drive.

 

[Ronald Held]

Isn't ludicrous speed a plot necessity for some episodes?

 

[Noname Given]

Most likely hyperbole.

Why would you assume a trained Helmsman and Navigator would use Hyperbole when reporting a position to the Captain of the ship?

 

[Warped9]

Why would you assume a trained Helmsman and Navigator would use Hyperbole when reporting a position to the Captain of the ship?

Because that's how real people often talk.

 

[Tenacity]

Why would you assume a trained Helmsman and Navigator would use Hyperbole when reporting a position to the Captain of the ship?

Because "We've been thrown halfway across the Galaxy" doesn't sound like a technically accurate navigational position report.