Generally boarding parties don’t beam aboard until the boarded ship’s defensive systems have been taken offline, or they have superior technology and transporters don’t work on them anyway.
Even worse… they explain the Holodecks. And it’s a horrible, horrible answer. The Holodecks have their own power, and also are completely incompatible with the rest of the ship. Which routinely grabs random technology from across the universe when convenient.
110v, 60 Hz and 220 v, 50 Hz. :rolleyes:
Well, ISTR seeing a graph once that seemed to indicate that warp indices are on something like a logarithmic scale, so that warp 8 is an order of magnitude greater than warp 7 – on what base value is not clear, but if it were ten, warp seven would be one mega-C, relatively speaking. Still, warp has nothing on Infinite Improbability or Bistromathics.
NCC1701, the TOS ship, had six or eight or more of the 7-pad transporter rooms and at least one 2-pad room. I may still have blueprints in a drawer around here somewhere.
Also why bother? The Fed has limited resources and issues to deal with, why bother sending a party to retrace Voy’s footsteps home?
Lets say some kwaaazy accident blew some Americans into the Mongolian Steppe and they eventually make it back to civilization, why would the US government bother sending a team to retrace their steps and find all those tiny isolated hunters and villages they encountered?
There was also the Paris/Torres baby but that was at or near the end of the series.
Several transporter rooms, plus there were bigger ones in the cargo bays. And on top of that, they had transporters in the shuttles too.
Hot space chicks.
I believe Warp n is C raised to the nth power.
Some disagree.
Back when I was enough of a fan to fanwank, I posited the theory that warp factors are more like the gears of a standard transmission than literal speeds. Warp 5 is faster than warp 4 in the same way that fifth gear is faster than fourth gear, but how fast it actually is depends on the particulars of the “transmission” rather than there being a direct mapping from warp factors to speeds that is valid for all ships.
Of course fancier and more technologically advanced ships can have better “transmissions” so in general fancier and newer ships are going to be faster than older and cheaper ones.
I just think it’s funny the OP picked an inconsistency that is actually explained and explained well… To be fair, of course, it isn’t explained right away, and Voyager’s track record doesn’t lead someone to assume it will be explained in the future.
What’s weird is that they’ve had a direct route to the Alpha Quadrant all this time. So why all the indirect attacks? Why did they invent a new method of time travel in order in order to try and conquer us before we advanced? Why go to all that trouble when a direct frontal assault with multiple cubes would completely devastate us?
That’s not a fanwank. That’s pretty much the official explanation, except that Warp has been more standardized to equal speed since the TNG era.
The formula, btw, was w[sup]3c[/sup] in the TOS era (at least, for the Enterprise) and w[sup]10c/3[/sup]; w < 9 for TNG. (For 10 < w < 9, it’s just a hand drawn curve that approaches infinity at w = 10, added so that warp factors wouldn’t keep increasing like they had in TOS.)
To civilize them, of course - in other words, to open McDonalds there.
Voyager didn’t always leave behind friendly aliens. There were many times Janeway barely got the ship out alive. Janeway didn’t rigidly follow the Prime Directive either. She really screwed around with several planets and even altered the balance of power in several areas of space.
We used to joke about the Janeway effect. Voyager is probably not fondly remembered by some of those alien species.
Sppppaaaaaacccceeeee HHHHIIITTTTLLLLEEERRR!!!
IMHO Voyager was by far the worst series. Enterprise was the next worst by far ahead. It was getting better as it went along.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure there’s more good episodes to be found in the four seasons of Enterprise than in the seven seasons of Voyager.
No, you’ve got it right. The only thing I’d add is that after the Space Jew decided they’d rather die, Janeway forced them to go through with it anyway, stating that she’d “deal with the consequences afterwards”. Of course, in true Voyager fashion, the events of the episode were then never mentioned again.
Personally, I prefer Enterprise merely for the fact that it felt real and not so plasticky. Most of that Xindi season was pretty silly, though.
I thought there was such rich story potential in exploring proto-Federation themes, where humans, Vulcans, Andorians and Tellarites (and whatever else you could cull from TOS) overcome hostilities and suspicions to cobble together a reasonably stable alliance. The whole “temporal cold war” and “Xindi weapon” arcs were just wastes of time - was it really super-critical that the show have original aliens that fit nowhere else in the continuity?
Yes, but the crew included:
Tucker, a man who defines incompetence. (He’s also a shameless redneck stereotype.)
Hoshi, a woman less interesting than my goldfish and who is mostly scared of her own shadow.
T’Pol, a vulcan who went right past logic straight into “Obnoxious Self-Indulgent Jerk”.
Mayweather, who’s been in space before, and who is less interesting than Hoshi - HOSHI for pete’s sake!
Captain “Crazypants” Archer, a manic-depressive whose chases blindly after any idea which comes to him.
And guest starring Phlox, who used Insane Troll Logic and a complete misunderstanding in every conceivable way or what evolution was to justify the deaths of an entire species.
I will grant that Reed was mostly a well-balanced individual, interesting as a human being, and not afflicted with Teh Stupid.
Amongst all the text, there are three charts. The first illustrates the changing absolute speeds based on “in screen” dialog or display charts. The second chart is the “old” scale, where the absolute speed (in “c”) is warp factor cubed. The third chart is your readjusted chart, with the greatest differences being in the higher warp factors.