Warp 10: The 'Brown Note' of Space Travel?

[f14peter]

Marty Redshirt: "Does that mean it's faster? Is it any faster?"

LT CMDR Montgomery Tufnel: "Well, it's one faster, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most starships, you know, will be traveling at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your warp speed. Where can you go from there? Where?"

Marty Redshirt: "I don't know."

LT CMDR Montgomery Tufnel: "Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?"

Marty Redshirt: "Put it up to eleven."

LT CMDR Montgomery Tufnel: "Eleven. Exactly. One faster."

Marty Redshirt: "Why don't you just make ten faster and make ten be the top warp speed and make that a little faster?"

LT CMDR Montgomery Tufnel: " ... this starship goes to eleven."

 

[Richard Baker]

I did like it when in the TNG show 'Where No One has Gone Before' the Enterprise, already traveling at high warp, had a second warp flash/stretch and went to warp again...

 

[PicardSpeedo]

The Daystrom Institute website's version of transwarp drive (with power scales) works best for me. With Warp 10, 20, and 30 (and the like) being impossible to reach "infinites" on the power curves, but if you can leap past the "threshold" you get to another set of warp factors that use far less power than the "traditional" warp 9.99...etc... power curve. While you never go infinite speed as that needs infinite power, you go faster with less power requirements. Warp 13 being the same power requirement as TNG scale Warp 9.6 but being effectively 35 times faster.

Voyager would be seen as having Tom Paris straddling the threshold to transwarp, but in a dangerous manner. His instruments would read as "warp 10" because it has no way to read higher than that for what he was doing. He likely got past the threshold to what would effectively be something like Warp 10.1, which would read as some overly high warp 9.9999something normally if his power curve wasn't way off. The computer wouldn't know how to read that, and by the time they would check in the second flight, he and Janeway were occupied. Janeway considered the whole thing too dangerous and they didn't bother to investigate the data more closely. After they get home someone will find what happened and figure out what they did wrong. The new drives like the AGT Enterprise's that can go Warp 13 are the logical result (asuming that wasn't just a quantum slipstream drive in the image of a third nacelle).

The new drives just never go "Warp 10". Much like they say you can't actually go at Warp 1 (speed of light) because it would take infinite mass and energy, but you can travel a fraction under or over the speed of light with warp drives, just not light speed itself. If one orders Warp 1, or Warp 10 in the new system, it is actually Warp 1.000001 or Warp 10.000001, but the difference is accounted already.

Makes sense - so if this is what Tom Paris actually did, and what they're using circa AGT, how do we solve the "occupying every point in the entire universe" problem (which Paris claimed to have done) and the "going fast turns you into a lizard" problem (which Paris and Janeway actually did)?