Warp speed comparisons

[Picard578]

As with all other ST facts, I tend to follow my own canon rules, and these are:
TNG overrides everything
TOS overrides everything except TNG (DS9, VOY, ENT)
DS9 overrides VOY and ENT
VOY overrides ENT
ENT overrides nothing
(Actually, every single of these overrides TAS but I do not view TAS as canon at all so I did not include it)

 

[KJbushway]

Isn't warp ten like infinite speed? We saw that in Voyager.

 

[SWHouston]

KJB,

Yes, theoretically that is true, but, it depends on what Model you use to define Warp.
There have been several instances where a Ship was quoted as traveling at greater than Warp 10, and it took them a "while" to get where they were going. Thusly, not "infinite" speed.
On the other hand, the "Q", Borg (using assimilated technology), Douwd, Cytherian, Nacene, Gomtuu, to name just a few, have had the capability of transport through space, which would equate to hundreds or thousands of Lightyears in an instant.

HA, I think the best way to define Warp, is don't try !

 

[C.E. Evans]

IIRC, Roddenberry wanted to simplify the warp scale for TNG in which Warp 10 was an absolute value that no ship could reach. Ever. Fractional warp factors beyond Warp 9 would be "bat outta hell" velocities, and guys like Q and the Traveler would be playing in the Warp 9.9999+ range--far faster than what Federation starship sensors could calculate accurately, IMO (no wonder why LaForge thought the Enterprise-D had surpassed Warp 10 in "Where No One Has Gone Before" that way).

I think it might have been fine with 24th-Century ships rarely going past Warp 9 on the new scale, but once people started talking about Warp 9.975 or Warp 9.999 or whatever, it wound up being more cumbersome than saying "Warp 16" or "Warp 30" in the long run. It might have required one of the producers to tell the scriptwriters to keep the warp scale simple as Roddenberry seemed to have wanted, or to ditch the Warp 10 limit along with the Warp 5 limit implemented towards the end of TNG...

 

[Ronald Held]

Should the data here be consolidated and kept as a sticky(at some point after the thread stops)?

 

[KJbushway]

Don't see why not. Good idea.