OT: Revised Edition Star Trek

[Ed Kolis]

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!