Types of warpdrive?
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Arguably, one could also say there are two different things when talking about 'transwarp'. The next generation warp drive that was attempted with the original design of the Excelsior (which I suspect eventually became the basis for the 24 1/2 century's faster and more advanced warp drives on the Enterprise D and beyond) and the transwarp conduits later seen by the Borg, which operate in a completely different manner, using wormhole-like tunnels to get places much faster...
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Voth city ship had transwarp with no problems--All Good Things D.
In one Novel, there was the "side-warp". Kelvin modifications to warp drive. Nth degree the probe almost seemed drive-less yet was still able to move.
Super-warp theory at the end of Sternbachs Chronology
In one Novel, there was the "side-warp". Kelvin modifications to warp drive. Nth degree the probe almost seemed drive-less yet was still able to move.
Super-warp theory at the end of Sternbachs Chronology
There are several other instances where speed was acheeved which was rather fast, but, they don't actually have a name like "Warp" whatever.
I'm not sure if that is/should be included here, but I'll mention a few just in case...
Q, just snapped his fingers. Numerous References.
BORG, did it via Conduits. Numerous References.
DOUWD, unknown application. TNG The Survivors.
CYTHERIAN, possessed Barkley and Enterprise Computer. TNG The Nth Degree.
NACENE, (Caretaker) had an Array. VOY Caretaker.
GOMTUU, did it through centrifugal force, I guess ? TNG Tin Man.
ALDEAN, via their Custodian computer. TNG When The Bough Breaks.
TRAVELER, co-effort between Enterprise Computer and his Mental Ability. TNG Where No One Has Gone Before.
OCAMPA, when Kes moved Voyager out of Borg space in VOY The Gift
I guess one could call all of these Transwarp ?
I'm not sure if that is/should be included here, but I'll mention a few just in case...
Q, just snapped his fingers. Numerous References.
BORG, did it via Conduits. Numerous References.
DOUWD, unknown application. TNG The Survivors.
CYTHERIAN, possessed Barkley and Enterprise Computer. TNG The Nth Degree.
NACENE, (Caretaker) had an Array. VOY Caretaker.
GOMTUU, did it through centrifugal force, I guess ? TNG Tin Man.
ALDEAN, via their Custodian computer. TNG When The Bough Breaks.
TRAVELER, co-effort between Enterprise Computer and his Mental Ability. TNG Where No One Has Gone Before.
OCAMPA, when Kes moved Voyager out of Borg space in VOY The Gift
I guess one could call all of these Transwarp ?
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^Many of those propulsion methods mentioned aren't necessarily different versions or applications of "warp drive" as the Federation knew it - but were actually entirely fundamentally different ways traveling at FTL speeds.
Unless you weren't just asking about FTL methods that were built or based upon the existing Federation "warp drive"...(since some of those methods likely also involved the warping of space in some ways...)
But we did see a few lot of faster variations or applications of Federation warp drive itself, like the already mentioned "coaxial warp" and "transwarp" which seemed to involve modified versions of the warp drive system itself or the geometries of the warp field -- and things like transwarp conduits and quantum slipstream seemed to involve using the warp drive systems as well in altered ways...
And wasn't there and "Enhanced Warp Drive" discovered/used by that faux version of Voyager made of that weird mimetic material who where convinced they they were the original crew until something about the warp drive enhancements started causing them to break down...?
Also there was that though-based ultra-warp speeds that the Traveler was able to help accomplish.
And probably others that I am forgetting...
The Federation Trill scientists experimented with artificial wormholes - but that still had a lot of bugs that needed ironing out, to say the least...but I believe that used particles and fields emitted by the navigational deflector - and I can't recall if the warp core played a fundamental part in generating those...though I'll bet the warp core was used to generate the power necessary for the deflector to generate the necessary energies..
Unless you weren't just asking about FTL methods that were built or based upon the existing Federation "warp drive"...(since some of those methods likely also involved the warping of space in some ways...)
But we did see a few lot of faster variations or applications of Federation warp drive itself, like the already mentioned "coaxial warp" and "transwarp" which seemed to involve modified versions of the warp drive system itself or the geometries of the warp field -- and things like transwarp conduits and quantum slipstream seemed to involve using the warp drive systems as well in altered ways...
And wasn't there and "Enhanced Warp Drive" discovered/used by that faux version of Voyager made of that weird mimetic material who where convinced they they were the original crew until something about the warp drive enhancements started causing them to break down...?
Also there was that though-based ultra-warp speeds that the Traveler was able to help accomplish.
And probably others that I am forgetting...
The Federation Trill scientists experimented with artificial wormholes - but that still had a lot of bugs that needed ironing out, to say the least...but I believe that used particles and fields emitted by the navigational deflector - and I can't recall if the warp core played a fundamental part in generating those...though I'll bet the warp core was used to generate the power necessary for the deflector to generate the necessary energies..
