[freedumb2003]

>> Pa asked me what warp meant, I said I think it’s speed of light. He groaned.<<

Despite my quick jest, there is a BIT of science behind Star Trek — warp is indeed theoretically possible (see Einstein’s saddle).

But THEN Star Trek violates its own science by having a ship go Warp 15 when, using the calculations of Star Trek physics, Warp 10 is the absolute “fastest” (fast doesn’t necessarily apply when talking quantum physics) any ship could ever go.

Faster than that and energy itself collapses (trust me), so there would be no “field” that could be generated to hold the ship together.

[eartrumpet]

Faster than that and energy itself collapses (trust me), so there would be no “field” that could be generated to hold the ship together.

I trust you, please don't do it.

Pa was working with his 1950s chemical engineering knowledge of physics and whatever warp they said was enough to offend him.

[verga]

But THEN Star Trek violates its own science by having a ship go Warp 15

I am not an ultimate Trekkie by any stretch, but I don't recall them dong over warp 10, what movie or episode did that occur?