The transtator
Universal translator
Dilithium
Impulse drive
Warp
Inertial dampening
Ripped shirt Kirk
Replicators
AI
All some fun tools for writers to use and fans to nitpick. ( I’m a very early member of Phil Farrand Nitpickers Guild. Wrote a couple of small newsletter articles in the early print version, whenever that was)
Nitpicking 80s or early 90s… the snail mail yellow paper version newsletter circulated before his 1st book. Wish I had kept them. We shared them at work
Good point.
Thanks. I didn’t feel like looking up the actual time of the trip. I should have.
Isn’t the distance to Andromeda 2.5 MILLION light years?
Quite right. An oversight on my part: 2.537 **million **ly.
Aw, what’s a few hundred thousand light years between friends?
BTW Nomad’s energy bolts traveled at warp 15. The old Spaceflight Chronology Book from STTMP lists the refurbished Enterprise’s maximum speed as warp 12. TNG’s “no greater than warp 10” is just silly. The maximum speed of various ships warp 9.8
9.875, 9.975, 9.976, 9.977 etc. silly, they should have stuck with the old formula.
Far enough to be out of WiFi range. And Bluetooth? No way. Cue the ansible.
Here is a four minute YouTube animation that answers the original question.
But is the TNG Warp factor the same as TOS? We got introduced to Transwarp drive, so maybe TNG is really “Transwarp Factor 10” (or whatever other generations of tech came between them)
I haven’t watched ***Enterprise ***in something like 15 years, but wasn’t the absolute theoretical limit there warp 2 or warp 5? Seems the powers that be just can’t settle on a fixed figure.
No, Warp 5 was just what they could do at the time - it was a way of making the tech less advanced than in TOS.
Warp factors were explicitly rescaled between TOS and TNG to give an actual physical limit.
Nope. There was a warp 2 barrier they were afraid to break:
That’s explicitly pointing to a technological, not theoretical limit.
And how many episodes before they broke it? 
Most everything in that episode was a flashback, so it must have been before the series even went on the air.
Yes, the Enterprise, NX-01, and her sister ships were the first Earth ships designed to be able to routinely go as fast as Warp 5, IIRC.
A chart of warp speeds in the TNG era.
How far could you go at warp 5?