Why didnt they make getting konos a few weeks or month?
- Thread starter TEH BABA
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They DID have to ask. They asked the Vulcans who happened to be on earth anyway.
But they didn't just give them the coordinates, Archer didn't ASK for T'Pol's companionship, you know?
My point was that I didn't want the humans to have any vulcan database, alien guide, etc.
They DID have to ask. They asked the Vulcans who happened to be on earth anyway.
But they didn't just give them the coordinates, Archer didn't ASK for T'Pol's companionship, you know?
Trouble is, if this is supposed to be the Early Days of Star Fleet, when ships were small and cramped and slow and space full of unknowns, it's a bit contrary to the spirit of the thing to have the destination be so blasted close. Columbus's first voyage to the New World took 33 days after the layover in the Canaries; shouldn't a voyage to the heart of a star empire take more than one-eighth as long? Doesn't it better capture the spirit of space-is-even-bigger if it takes longer to get there?
(Worse, they foolishly specify the Enterprise's speed in the episode, and how long they're travelling. While it is always dangerous to put a ruler up to a piece of science fiction and see if the numbers make sense, this particular choice put Kronos closer to Earth than Alpha Centauri is.)
back to tos there were covering distances they shouldnt be able to traverse as quickly as they did.
along the way the idea of warp super highways came about.
places within space where a ship could travel at warp far faster then normal.
so while the location of planet might be known it might take star charts made by a species that has actually traveled on one to pinpoint those special areas of space.
along the way the idea of warp super highways came about.
places within space where a ship could travel at warp far faster then normal.
so while the location of planet might be known it might take star charts made by a species that has actually traveled on one to pinpoint those special areas of space.
Earth is four days from Kronos using Vulcan star charts. Klingons don't have Vulcan star charts, so they might be months away from Earth.
Still, four days is what you get at the known maximum speed, which gives you the maximum distance regardless of varying-quality-charts or tips-from-locals or other such factors. If that's along a non-straight path, all the worse.
What we have to do here is one of the following:
a) Assume that one figure or another stated on screen was dead wrong. Not my preference.
b) Assume that the figures we hear are, umm, deceptive. Say, warp 4.5 may be a different speed at different times. Perhaps the speed steadily increases as long as the engines are running at warp 4.5, and will be tenfold just a couple of hours after Archer's statement? That would be consistent both with the Neptune-and-back reference and the idea that Klingons live far away, although it would require further handwaving for consistency.
c) Assume that the layout of the Trek universe is different from ours, and that stars are much, much more closely packed there. Again, not really my preference, as it solves little for the further problems it causes.
Timo Saloniemi
What we have to do here is one of the following:
a) Assume that one figure or another stated on screen was dead wrong. Not my preference.
b) Assume that the figures we hear are, umm, deceptive. Say, warp 4.5 may be a different speed at different times. Perhaps the speed steadily increases as long as the engines are running at warp 4.5, and will be tenfold just a couple of hours after Archer's statement? That would be consistent both with the Neptune-and-back reference and the idea that Klingons live far away, although it would require further handwaving for consistency.
c) Assume that the layout of the Trek universe is different from ours, and that stars are much, much more closely packed there. Again, not really my preference, as it solves little for the further problems it causes.
Timo Saloniemi
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