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Subject: Re: proof that ST ships are fast at impulse!

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capn hayes

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Date Posted: 18:14:27 10/05/02 Sat
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In reply to: Major Diarrhia 's message, "Re: proof that ST ships are fast at impulse!" on 06:48:10 10/05/02 Sat

>>>In "Chain of Command Part 2" (TNG) It is stated that
>>>impulse on a shuttle can reach atleast .7c
>>Whatever,
>>ST:III the search for spock, the Enterprise leaving
>>spacedock at "Full Impulse" didn't look to fast to me.
>Also it takes time to actualy excelerate to full
>impulse speed. They aren't going to be going at there
>top speed instantly, unless of course they use the
>warp drive to excelerate them.

Whatever man, What what geordi said to scotty in "Relics" about impulse engine designs not having changed in two hundred years. Also what about the fast acceleration in TMP? Don't try to say it was damaged beause if that were the case then the Excelsior would have caught them almost as soon as they got outside of the Dock. Also in ST:VI we see a similiar situation. Unless you agree with me about how warpdrive on the older ships can be used to lighten the mass increasing maneuverability, and giving high sub-light acceleration instead of warpspeed adavntages. At any rate we have seen miss use of scripts to validate high speed before. Like when the enterprise d was traped in Nagealem and was at warp 2 for a few minutes and when Picard ask how far they had traveled Data replies 1.4 parsecs traveled! Or in Scorpion part 1 when Janeway orders Paris to travel 2 light-years away, at warp 2 and it seems it only took a few minutes to get there when it should have been close to six months! Or how about in "Genisis" [TNG] when Data and Picard roundevous with the enterprise d and its not there. when data scans for it its 2 light-years away, If you beleive the top speed of the shuttle to be warp 1.75 (6.5c) which in one episode Riker gives the quotes engine output as 2 1250 millicochrane warpdrives so it should be considered acurate. Anyway traveling wf 1.75 it would take about 4 months! But it only seemed to take maybe a few hours at most, but definetly not 4 months. But yet as unreasonable as these figures are they DID HAPPEN and must be considered canon. Unless it is possible that maybe there are mistakes made by the writers. and maybe sometimes we need to remember that when spouting out the capabilities of star trek ships. The information even though it was seen on the show might be flawed or simply a writer mistake. Now I'm not saying that your not wrong just the information that you've based the claim may or may not be realisticly possible. Again we should not blindly just except what is said on the show. Otherwise we can wind up being mislead. I take most of what is said with a BIG grain of salt.

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