On 9/24/2012 11:51 AM, Fred J. McCall wrote:

Not to worry. You got it wrong, so you're safe with your wife. My
head knew the 'Original Series' system, which is based on cubes, as
you said, but it's not C that gets raised to a power. That would make
even Warp 2 preposterously fast.

The original system said that each 'Warp Factor' was the speed of
light TIMES the Warp Factor cubed. Thus Warp 1 = c, Warp 2 = 8c, Warp
3 = 27c, Warp 4 = 64c, etc.

Ah yes, this does ring a bell! Whew safe after all!!!! Thanks Fred....

This was apparently changed after the Original Series (unbeknownst to
me) in order to make 'Warp 10' the ultimate speed. In the old system
it was Warp 20. which turns out to be roughly equivalent to Warp 9.99
in the 'New System'. There doesn't seem to be a 'reasonable'
calculation for the 'New Warp Factor'.


Yep I remember that too. In the episode about the trip to Andromeda, the
aliens modify the Warp Engines to delivery above Warp 10, something like
Warp 12 or Warp 15, fast enough to blast through the 'negative energy
barrier' w/o problems, includng anyone in the crew with an ESP issue,
which would have made for an even MORE interesting episode....

Dave