OT: Revised Edition Star Trek

Suicide Junkie · #1 September 27th, 2005, 09:16 PM

For the two people who voted for linear warp speeds, please explain why you think talking about "warp 216" instead of a nice easy "warp 6" is a good idea.

Ed Kolis · #2 September 27th, 2005, 09:51 PM

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Suicide Junkie said:
For the two people who voted for linear warp speeds, please explain why you think talking about "warp 216" instead of a nice easy "warp 6" is a good idea.

Because you wouldn't talk in terms of weird powers and stuff to begin with - you'd just say "helm, bring us to warp 200" (or even better, "helm, bring us to 200c"

) - do you ever see speed limits posted as 49 miles per hour just because 49 is square and so it's "gear 7" or something?

No, you round your speeds off to a nice decimal value!

Suicide Junkie · #3 September 27th, 2005, 09:54 PM

Ah. Sounds good. I hereby change my vote!

Atrocities · #4 September 27th, 2005, 09:57 PM

Warp is just a stupid way to say "GO REALY FAST AND GET US THE HELL OUT OF HERE MR. SULU!"