(VOY: "Endgame"), In the 26th century of a possible future presented to Jonathan Archer by temporal agent Daniels, the Battle of Procyon V was fought amid a trans-dimensional disturbance created by the Sphere-Builders that extended fifty thousand light years in all directions and growing. If you were going at 60 mph you would get 60 miles in 1 hour. At the speed of light you travel one light year in a year. Even within our solar system, massive distances make travel timely and difficult to plan. In addition to the possibility to let a spaceship glide through space in a warp field, there is also space folding in Star Trek. Three years later, in the episode Vis à Vis, Voyager discovered a stranded spaceship with a coaxial warp drive. 1 History and specifics 2 Appendices 2.1 References 2.2 External link A light year is about 9.5 quadrillion meters long. I am not good with calculations but a question came to my mind recenlty when i was watching the movie star trek. (VOY: "Caretaker"), Quark recalled that he was serving on a Ferengi freighter hundreds of light years from Ferenginar when the Great Monetary Collapse hit. The technology was deemed too dangerous for use after this occurrence and was dismantled. So according to Jordi at max warp the enterprise can travel 2.75 million light years in 300 years. If subspace communications achieve roughly 60 times this speed, that means that these transmissions travel at approximately 183,180 times the speed of light. I have googled it but i cant find anything. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - [075] The Visitor "Therefore he appeared somewhere near you, even if you were hundreds of light years away from the place the accident happened." If the observer is traveling at the speed of light, then by definition it takes one year. ... hundreds of light years … (VOY: "The Gift"), Later that year, Voyager discovered an ancient relay network spanning across the galaxy, which they used to locate and contact the USS Prometheus, a Starfleet vessel on the edge of the Alpha Quadrant over sixty thousand light years away. In short, at a maximum velocity of 56,000 km/h, Deep Space 1 would take over 81,000 years to traverse the 4.24 light-years between Earth and Proxima Centauri. A year later, in The High Ground, terrorists on the planet Rutia IV used a space folding teleporter called an inverter. The entire episode Threshold from Star Trek Voyager is about a transwarp experiment by the USS Voyager crew. Trekkies have helped define the science fiction universe, along with the technology that the Star Trek series, books, and movies promise. Now, if we wanted to travel to Alpha Centauri, we would have to know how fast our spaceship is travelling. Or how far the Defiant could possibly get at warp 9 in just five days? The entire experiment is described in the reference work Star Trek Fact Files. Another form of transwarp used in Star Trek is called Quantum Slipstream. The warp 14.1 incident in That Which Survives was the result of runaway engines which brought the hull within seconds of structural failure before power was disengaged.[11]. At the last moment, travel through the passage was aborted. The closest star to earth is 4 light years, so star ship travel a light year in 1/8 of a second, or about 30,000 light years per hour. Some episodes later, fictionalized a few months later, the crew of USS Voyager encounters a species called the Voth. A replica of the drive was only tested in a shuttle and never used for the Voyager. Starship warp cores generally also serve as powerplants for other primary ship systems. Even at a brisk speed of Warp 7, it would take 2.4 days to get to Alpha Centauri. In the second pilot for The Original Series, "Where No Man Has Gone Before", time was dropped from the speed setting with Kirk ordering speeds in the simple "ahead warp factor one" that became so familiar from then on. It’ll be about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. And you, too, can sound like a Treknology expert! According to Michael Okuda, the location between Earth and Vulcan, sixteen light years, is ninety-three trillion miles. A spacecraft equipped with a warp drive may travel at speeds greater than that of light by many orders of magnitude. To get home faster, a shuttle is modified with novel dilithium crystals. In order to save the galaxy, the brave crew of the USS Discovery set off on a one-way mission 900 years into the future in Star Trek: Discovery's season 2 finale. The Star Trek: Starship Spotter reference book states that the Intrepid-class starship Voyager has a maximum sustainable cruising speed of warp 9.975, while the Prometheus-class can reach a maximum of warp 9.99, with maximum cruising speed of warp 9.9. In the episode Prime Factors the crew tried to buy a Spatial Trajector from the Sikarians. This is the highest conventional warp speed mentioned for a spaceship (Borg cube). As an example, it takes 1.3 seconds for light to travel from the Earth to the moon and eight hours for a space shuttle to make the same trip. Yet the map has it at around 1000. Which calculates to: 25.11 light years a day (9,166.66/365) 1.04 light years an hour (25.11/24) (ENT: "Regeneration"), In the Treaty of Armens (2255), it was stipulated, "Third party assistance may be requested from a Federation Starfleet vessel or a Sheliak Corporate spacecraft if the distance from the vessel to the respective homeworld is greater than five thousand (5.0e3×103) light years. ‘Speed’ in Star Trek perhaps owes as much to do with how long you can sustain a high warp. (VOY: "Prey"), Voyager spent a month crossing a nebula which spanned one hundred ten light years. [7], In 2012, NASA researcher Harold G. White hypothesized that by changing the shape of the warp drive, much less negative mass and energy could be used, though the energy required ranges from the mass of Voyager 1 to the mass of the observable universe, or many orders of magnitude greater than anything currently possible by modern technology. That’s one of my biggest gripes about Star Trek (I absolutely love Star Trek, don’t get me wrong). It would take 1 year. You'll have some time to kill. The problem of a material object exceeding light speed is that an infinite amount of kinetic energy would be required to travel at exactly the speed of light. And there are a lot of plastic spaceships out there. These days, Trek ornaments include character likenesses and recreations of … Transwarp generally refers to speeds and technologies that are beyond conventional warp drives. Such "warp core breaches" are used as plot devices in many Star Trek episodes, most notably Star Trek: Generations. These crystals are described as being non-reactive to anti-matter when bombarded with high levels of radiation. The term was later used in Star Trek IV in describing the slingshot effect. Intergalactic travel is the hypothetical crewed or uncrewed travel between galaxies.Due to the enormous distances between the Milky Way and even its closest neighbors—tens of thousands to millions of light-years—any such venture would be far more technologically demanding than even interstellar travel.Intergalactic distances are roughly a hundred-thousandfold (five orders of … A NASA feasibility article, Alcubierre Warp Drive at the Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy, and Spaceflight, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Warp_drive&oldid=1000370440, Articles that may contain original research from September 2017, All articles that may contain original research, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, According to Gene Roddenberry's first concept script, This page was last edited on 14 January 2021, at 20:47. This can theoretically be solved by warping space to move an object instead of increasing the kinetic energy of the object to do so. The general concept of "warp drive" was introduced by John W. Campbell in his 1957 novel Islands of Space.[3]. Hence, a subspace communication will cover a distance of roughly 183,000 light years in a year. Trekkies have helped define the science fiction universe, along with the technology that the Star Trek series, books, and movies promise. The modified Voyager is able to cover a distance of 300 light years with the slipstream modification before the system becomes unstable. This article is a stub relating to science. First of all, a light-year is the distance light travels in one year. This is the last warp factor mentioned before the leap takes place in the transwarp state. The star Alpha Centauri is about 4 light-years away, so light from Alpha Centauri takes 4 years to get to the Earth. As stated in the collection Star Trek Fact Files, no ship, including highly developed ships like the Borg cube, may exceed warp factor 9.99 with their normal warp drive. So Warp Factor 9.5, using this canon, equals: 9.5^3, or 857.38x light speed. When matter and antimatter come into contact, they annihilate—both matter and antimatter are converted directly and entirely into enormous quantities of energy, in the form of subnuclear particles and electromagnetic radiation (specifically, mesons and gamma rays). When first devising and conceptualizing the futuristic world of Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry decided that the advent of long-range space travel would necessitate a brand new way of … Presumably in TNG it’s more of an off hand remark that at max speed (around warp 9.6) it would take 300 years - although in practice the ship couldn’t actually maintain that speed. Similar to the Borg transwarp conduits, the slipstream is a narrowly focused, directed field that is initiated by manipulating the fabric of the space-time continuum using the starship's navigational deflector array. That's why the trip from Tatooine to Alderaan in Star Wars took 16 hours, which is actually pretty slow for a 10,000 light year journey in a ship with an illegal class 0.5 hyperdrive, and is roughly equivalent to Star Trek 's warp 7. (DS9: "Battle Lines"), The Caretaker's array was capable of generating a displacement wave capable of dragging ships many light years across the Milky Way Galaxy, doing so in 2371 when it swept the Maquis ship Val Jean and the USS Voyager over seventy thousand light years from the Badlands to its position in the Delta Quadrant. At this light-speed rate, the ship would take 5 hours and 28 minutes just to reach Pluto, which is about 3.67 billion miles (5.9 billion kilometers) away … (DS9: "Vortex"), The same year, Sisko told Kai Opaka that the Gamma Quadrant was seventy thousand light years away from Bajor. A light-year is a unit of distance measurement based on the travel of light energy, undisturbed in a vacuum, over the course of one Earth year. It’s been 54 years since we … The cruiser travels to the star Altair, 16.7 light-years from Earth, in 378 days. The "slingshot effect" is first depicted in "Tomorrow Is Yesterday" (1967) as a method of time travel. This article discusses the fictional timeline of the Star Trek franchise.The franchise is … (TNG: "Where No One Has Gone Before"), In 2365, Q propelled the Enterprise seven thousand light years to System J-25 and back again following their first contact with the Borg. Meanwhile Torres and Seska decide to disobey Janeway's orders and trade voyager's library for the technology, but they are caught by Tuvok. The term "time warp" was first used in "The Naked Time" (1966) when a previously untried cold-start intermix of matter and antimatter threw the Enterprise back three days in time. The speed of the drive is inversely proportional to the time and distance. You can help our database by expanding on it. (DIS: "Context Is for Kings"), In 2293, the USS Enterprise-B, having just left Earth Spacedock, was three light years away from the transport ships SS Robert Fox and SS Lakul when they were caught up in the Nexus, making the Enterprise the closest Starfleet ship to mount a rescue. For this period, the stocks are filled. So according to Jordi at max warp the enterprise can travel 2.75 million light years in 300 years. (TNG: "The Ensigns of Command"), Eagle-12, containing a Federation space station, and Gamma Hydra, home to an Andorian colony, were respectively located three and six light years away from a binary star system at the edge of Federation space. (Star Trek Generations), In 2364, the USS Enterprise-D was hurled 2,700,000 light years, through two galaxies, to the Triangulum Galaxy by the Traveler during warp field tests.