I’ve heard that, though it was more a case of the ship and the space surrounding it gliding through the rest of space like a surfer on a wave.
Dunno about you, but it makes perfect sense to me! 
Because they’re the stars of the show, are being paid higher salaries than the rest of the cast, and we all know they won’t really be killed anyway.
When I was a kid watching TOS I assumed ships’ hulls were made out of some super-strong future alloy or something. Then somewhere along the line I got the idea that without the various shields, deflectors and hull integrity fields, large ships were so much paper-mache.
I used to love whenever that happened. At summer camp, when we would go on field trips, we used to play “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” and tried to tip the schoolbus over by throwing ourselves from side to side of the interior.
In the voice of Stewie Griffin, “Ah, good times!”
Hell, the shields on any Federation ship buckle after three or four hits, the circuits blow, and the crew members fall out of their chairs and die. How long do think even the Enterprise-D would last in battle? :dubious:
Yeah, but what gets difficult about that is what is happening with “all of space” when several ships are at warp at the same time? I’ve seen this question on different Trekky websites, but I don’t recall any canonical cites from any of them.
Seen any?
Meant to quote burpo’s post. :smack:
:dubious:
No, but why would that be a problem? 
If it’s a question of their spaces overlapping, that happened once in Enterprise, when crew transferred directly from one ship to another after they matched their warp speed. No problemo!
All of space moving around one ship to get it to where it is going would include all of those other ships. How are multiple ships using all of space, including those other ships, ever going to actually get anywhere?
If it’s canon, some treknobabble will come up at some time to explain how each individual ship gets to use all of space. Heart of Gold could do it, but even that was infinitely improbable. 
It’s the “all” that causes the issue. If they just say “space moves,” then a treknobabble explanation is more likeable. IMHO ymmv
They did that once or twice on ST:TNG, too.
They’re just surfin’ through space, dude! Just … surfin’, y’know? (Puff!) :o
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Wasn’t that the point of the “Soliton wave” episode?
Missed this the first time around, but that’s also the principle behind Farnsworth’s dark matter engine on Futurama.
Sounds like needing a stationary generator off the ship doesn’t work too well. 
A bit late, but yes I was mistaking the bridge for the saucer.
The company that built the Enterprise was too cheap to include seat belts.
Nope, that was penny-pinching (or rather, “credit-pinching”) by the Federation Council!
It’s because YoYo-Dyne was a Big Bootay Production.