OT: Enterprise...What did you think?

zircher · #1 September 28th, 2001, 10:15 PM

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Originally posted by Rich04:
The biggest thing that bugged be was that the Klingon homeworld was only 80 hours away from earth at warp 5. Damn that is close. That would make it like a few minutes away by Voyagers time.

As a rule Star Trek has always had a hard time getting its distances and travel times straight. I tend to ignore it or assume that the Star Trek universe is more crowded than our own. [Given the speed of phasers, perhaps light moves slower there and light years are just a fraction of ours.] :-)

As to the Klingon's, I still prefer the history used in Star Fleet Battles. If I remember correctly, the Klingons were part of a multi-racial slave empire that overthrew the Old Kings. Thus, you can have may flavors of Klingon that share a common culture. Separate clans, civil wars, power struggles, these are Klingon things. Genetic manipulation and pLastic surgery conspiracies are not.
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geoschmo · #2 September 28th, 2001, 10:36 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Rich04:
The biggest thing that bugged be was that the Klingon homeworld was only 80 hours away from earth at warp 5. Damn that is close. That would make it like a few minutes away by Voyagers time.

Yeah, but since the universe is constantly expanding, they were closer together in "Enterprise's" day than in "Yoyager's".

(No, I don't really believe that.)

Dracus · #3 September 29th, 2001, 12:29 AM

Warp is not linear. warp 5 does not mean 5 times the speed of light.

Suicide Junkie · #4 September 29th, 2001, 12:42 AM

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Warp is not linear. warp 5 does not mean 5 times the speed of light.

That makes it a bigger problem

If it goes up faster than linear, it makes low speeds faster, but high speeds LOTS faster.

Which brings up another point. What warp scale are they using? TOS scale? TNG+ scale? A third scale?

Dracus · #5 September 29th, 2001, 01:18 AM

It does get confusing:
at warp 1 a ship could travel from the sun to earth in about 8 seconds.
At Enterpise I think they said they could go to Jupiter and back in 6 minutes but they did not state at what speed.
I am trying to work out the math and will post more later.

AJC · #6 September 29th, 2001, 01:23 AM

I thought it was the best of the more recent trek series. I liked the Ship , special effects, back ground sets, and the attitudes reflected in the crew, they werent all running around blessing the galaxy with their presence and how wonderful the federation was.
Two things stood out as mistakes for me- when they grappled the fighter - the guy ejected and the hatch popped off - so they wouldnt have been able to use the fighter without being able to replace the hatch.
The scene where they are infected with a alien spore - I didnt mind lookin at the vulcan.. but what they did was inconsistant with what would have to happen to disinfect themselves. It was really a character building scene and I got the impression - the two characters would eventually hit it off.

As to how fast they were moving ; didnt Capt Archer say to the crew it would take a week or so to get used to flying at 30,000 kilometers per second, just before they lost all power?

All in all I thought it was entertaining and I liked it alot. I will be watching with interest!

[This message has been edited by AJC (edited 29 September 2001).]

Kadste · #7 September 29th, 2001, 01:28 AM

Check out this link. It says that that warp 5 is 214 times the speed of light.
http://www.netmoon.com/startrek/warp1/warp.htm

How about warp 9.9999 equals 199,516 times the speed of light.

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