Vina quote from The Cage

[Timo]

I like you.

Umm, no, you don't - there's no tag there! If it ain't virtual, it ain't real.

True. I'm sure that when Roddenberry wrote that line, he was thinking of the breakthrough of warp speed or just faster-than-light travel in general. But of course, later Trek episodes have made that impossible. So it was probably something like breaking Warp Seven or Eight.

Playing the Warp Factor X game is so inconvenient that I'd love to believe in a breakthrough of some completely different sort there. Say, something that was previously available to only a select few ships is now available to all, including the tub that chanced upon Talos IV. Or modern ships can sustain their cruising speed for six days rather than two hours, radically shortening total travel time.

Or then nothing much happened to propulsion tech between 2236 and 2254, yet the new ships no longer have to go around the Tyme Barrier but instead can fly straight through it to Earth, even if it's still a rather rough ride.

I do wonder what the 2230s were like. The Columbia went missing and nobody lifted a finger. The Kelvin went kaboom while worrying about the Klingons and somebody wrote a dissertation. Flint brought a planet. Was the frontier wilder back then than in TOS? Similar? Tamer? Was Starfleet? What drove folks like Haskins or Vina?

Timo Saloniemi

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Playing the Warp Factor X game is so inconvenient that I'd love to believe in a breakthrough of some completely different sort there.

Spore drive? <ducks>

 

[Timo]

I could so totally see that.

"And you won't believe how fast you can get back! Well, the time barrier's been broken. Our new ships can fly you there in an eyeblink! Of course, our ship is one of the old ones and will take about two years to get there. But anyway! Gosh and wow!"

Timo Saloniemi

 

[johnnybear]

Haskins? Well he had to keep Regan and Carter under check or face the wrath of the Commander I guess?
JB