[JimRed]

So at warp 5 you’re going five times the speed of light? What happens when you hit a baseball sized chunk of space debris at that velocity?

[wattsgnu]

My guess is there is no space debris because you are not in space. You are in your little bubble of un-space.

[Army Air Corps]

That’s what the deflectors are for. ;)

[FatherofFive]

What happens when you hit a baseball sized chunk of space debris at that velocity?

The deflector shields eliminate such issues.

[Red Badger]

You’re out...................

[Tucker39]

It's repelled out of your path by the bubble of energy surrounding your craft. You never collide with space debris. (Cough-cough)😇

[Mr. K]

FTL travel at that speed is not possible, FTL travel itself is not possible.

But you can warp the space between two places so that travel from here to the moon is like yards instead of thousands of miles.

[BlueStateRightist]

I believe the Warp scale in Star Trek is logarithmic. Therefore, Warp 5 is 100,000x the speed of light.

[Ciaphas Cain]

Hell, at that speed a half-sized mote of dust would tear the ship apart.

You know those speed bumps that compel drivers to slow down lest they risk tearing the car's transmission to pieces? Hitting the tiniest piece of space debris would be much worse.

[RandallFlagg]

According to Star Trek, warp 1 is L: 186,000 miles per second.
Warp 2 is L cubed. LXLXL :1,196,883,216,000,000,000,000 miles per second.
And so on.

Hope they take the carpool lane!

[Magnum44]

Actually, if I remember my star trek 101 class correctly, warp factor 5 is light speed raised to the 5th, not 5 times light speed. Roddenberry was actually pretty close to estimating what speeds would be necessary to make interstellar space travel possible in a human beings life time.

[phs3]

You wont, you are outside of the universes space/time...

[Boogieman]

“So at warp 5 you’re going five times the speed of light?”

Well, in Star Trek the warp scale was more exponential than geometric.