Spock will get him off, by reminding the Counsel that under the battle conditions found in the movie, Star Fleet Regulation forty-six A applies: 'If transmissions are being monitored during battle... no uncoded messages on an open channel.'
So in Lucas's defense, "distance" was to "speed" as "speed" should be to "distance." Therefore - parsecs.
And don't give me any nonsense about different universes - Scotty eventually fixed the transwarp drive. So what do you think the "trans" stands for?

Transylvania? Just a JUMP to the left...
You certainly throw me back in time when we debated which would win: The Enterprise vs. BattleStar Galactica vs. a Star Wars Corellian Cruiser (or even the if the Death Star were to show up in the Star Trek Universe).
Late nights, many beers, horn-rimmed glasses, 3D chess, Malibu nights with hot Santa winds blowing through the canyons.
God, life had and has never been so good.
What a fool I was to not capture every moment.