I just figured out the Warp 1-10 scale!

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2002-10-27 04:00pm

Ok, it goes like this:
Have you ever threatened somebody that you're going to count to three and if they didn't listen to you they'll be in a world of trouble?
It goes like this: one... two... ... ... two and a half... two and two-thirds...

The warp scale is lineal from Warp 1 to Warp 9. From there, since they can't get to Warp 10, there always has to be a "faster speed", so they basically top off at 9.5, then 9.6, 9.7, 9.8, 9.9, like what happened in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Bombs where Sulu is counting the warps. Then they cut it down more, 9.91, 9.92, 9.925, 9.9725.

So it's that simple!

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-10-27 04:55pm

Allow me to be the first to say: Well fucking duh!

That's been the standard explanation for so long. This is not exactly blinding flash on insight.

TheDarkling · Post by **TheDarkling** » 2002-10-27 04:59pm

Errr since when? 1-9 isnt linear its just that from 9 onwards the exponential curve gets steeper, at least thats what I always thought.

Although I dont think this thread is serious.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2002-10-27 05:02pm

Stormbringer wrote:Allow me to be the first to say: Well fucking duh!

That's been the standard explanation for so long. This is not exactly blinding flash on insight.

Sure, sure, next you'll say it was YOUR idea. Puh-leeze.

Enlightenment · Post by **Enlightenment** » 2002-10-27 05:06pm

This explanation was printed in the TNGTM back in the early 1990s. It's not canon, but it's certainly official.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2002-10-27 08:15pm

Ok.

#1: I was stating the obvious. Thank you Stormbringer to clear that up. Phew, I thought I was in trouble for a minute.
#2: It really doesn't make much difference if it's a curve (which is obviously VERY closed in the Warp 9 end of it, while it is quite plain in the previous levels), I didn't say Warp 9 is 9 times Warp 1. Whatever is your regular figure for Warp 9, you can simply make a straight line and it will be more or less okay.

But Star Trek IV still shows that the progression is quite plain up to Warp 9, where they have to start accelerating in the .1s at roughly the same rate.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2002-10-27 09:40pm

Sort of like rock climbing, where I believe 6 is the highest difficulty number, and it means that the cliff is impossile to climb without artificial holds, and as harder cliffs are discovered, they just make 5.13, 5.14, and so on difficulties. I'm not sure, I'm not a rock climber, I read it somewhere.