![]() Nothing, it was just shortened to "warp". You wouldn't expect TNG to not use "trans-warp." But wait the term is still "warp." What happened to "trans-warp". You can see in ST III, that "trans-warp" is the new technology. The Hubs would then work like train stations and catapults used to launch planes from aircraft carriers ![]() So the Borg have figured out where the space/ time and warp fields intersect favorably. Trade winds and currents don't always line up but when they do a ship working with them will travel faster while using less energy, than ship not using them. Where in the galaxy the ship is starting from and its end point seems to have an effect also.The Borg Transwarp Conduits (TWC) seem to be like ocean currents or trade winds at sea. How fast is variable based on technology used, ship size, mass, and shape. So transwarp is faster than current max warp geometries allow. TOS warp speed is slower than TOS Movie warp speed, TNG warp speed is faster than those speeds). Also "warp speed" is subject to adjustment (i.e. Each increase in warp (factor) isn't always geometric increase in "speed". Its more of a change in space/ time around the ship. ![]() What we recognize as speed is from our linear understanding of time and distance. :-)įrom reading whats here and the TNG novels, plus the various shows and movies warp isn't a speed. Perhaps a combination of Ultra Warp, but in transwarp space? Seems like sometimes they used conduits, but not always? Conduits accelerated the transwarp effect? I dunno, it got really fuzzy at that point in the Star Trek space. Now, obviously transwarp was redefined when the Borg came out. Ultra Warp (Galaxy class): A shifting pattern of warp fields that made greater velocity capable and also redefined Warp numbers as an exponential curve with 1 being speed of light and 10 being infinite. Effectively 2x as fast at each Warp number. Transwarp (Excelsior class): Technology enabling the ship to drop into an alternate dimension where time flowed at a different rate. Warp (Constitution class): Warp number cubed was the velocity relative to speed of light, with the Enterprise having a max normal of Warp 12 listed and emergency max of Warp 14. So, what is the basic definition for "trans-warp"? Is it simply any technology allowing a ship to travel faster than the known limits of conventional warp drive? Was Excelsior simply a "next-generation" warp drive ship that pushed the envelope that much further?īetween the tech manual I had back in the day for the Enterprise-D and my Enterprise blueprints, the following technologies are listed (perhaps not canon, but at least seem reasonable). ![]() However, no Federation ship to my knowledge ever possesses a technology with that label again (not for long anyway), and even in Star Trek VI they do away with the term for the Excelsior (now commanded by Captain Sulu). In further series in the Star Trek universe, there are various mentions of "trans-warp" technologies, such as Slipstream, folding-space and wormhole conduits. Turns out the Excelsior's drive was sabotaged by Scotty, allowing Kirk to escape to Genesis. The captain of the Excelsior smirks confidently that Kirk is "really in for a shock" if he thinks he can get away with the Enterprise's old warp drive. The audience learns that the Excelsior is equipped with "trans-warp drive". In Star Trek III, Kirk takes the Enterprise out on a little "joyride", with the U.S.S. ![]()
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