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Originally posted by raynor:
If I remember correctly, you cube the Warp Factor to arrive at the speed. So, warp 5 is 5 * 5 * 5 = 125 times the speed of light. If you recall from the Voyager episodes, they were 70,000 light years from home or at least 70 years from home if they were able to achieve warp 10 which would be 10 * 10 * 10 = 1000 times the speed of light.
You are correct, and incorrect.
As stated before there is no single warp scale. Your cubing formula acheives a correct distance for Voyager, but if applied to "Enterprise" it would mean the Klingon home world was a little over 1 light year from earth. The closest star system to Sol is Alpha Centauri and it's over 4 light years away.
You pretty much just have to accept that the warp scale varies from series to series, and sometimes between episodes in the same series.
You could try to calculate some non-linear, non-logarithmic scale, for warp. It would require a table instead of a formula. But even then I am sure a thourough survey would find examples where the same warp number translated into different speeds.
Geoschmo