TO ALL TREKIES AND/OR TREKERS (must read)

[Professor Brensec]

as for the gravity they have artificial gravity i believe the klingons use gravity plating
and as for up down there isnt really an up or down in space inertial dampners are given as an excuse not to notice it

Sorry Craig, I'm never a nit-picker, but this is Star Trek!

Inertial dampers exist so the people (and objects) inside the ship don't end up as paint on the bulkhead when it goes from Zero to Billions of miles per second in a flash.
(At school they'll tell you that "inertia" is the force which acts upon an object to keep it still, when still and keep it moving, when moving. Not to be mistaken for "momentum" which could be used as a replacement for the "keep moving part" but not the "keep still part". P.S. I converted this into people talk, rather than confuse everyone (oh...............God - someone shoot me, Please!..........lol)  ;D

There seems to be no up or down in deep space, simply because there is no reference. When they arrive at a planet, the ship is usually placed in orbit so that the planet is to the side or underneath, as it would be disconcerting to see the planet above. As we know from Shuttle orbit shots, it can look strange if it's upside down compared to the earth.

Oh! And it's Patrick STEWART.

Actually Fozzer, he has an extremely impressive resume, with regard to his Stage, TV and movie credits. I believe he started as a Shakespearian actor.

http://www.gruhlke.de/stewart/

Here'a a good site on him. It contains a WAV. download of him reciting an Antonio Vivaldi....................Oh, yummy, what a beautiful voice. If I wasn't a man............(shut up Steve - Quick)  :o

[phil509]

ILLOGICAL! Star trek represents the last hope of humanity to overcome our petty diferences,and look to the stars for our future as a spiecies.Gene Rodenberry was 200 years ahead of his time,he was a genuise who pointed the way ,not only to boldly go where no man has gone before,but to seek out those new lifeforms and civilisations that ARE out there!Its human nature to seek and discover and learn;If we loose this as part of our nature,were doomed to extinction,without so mutch as a disc in the library on Memory Alpha to recollect us. Space IS the final frontier-we must go,or maybey our world is flat?                First star to the right,sraight on`till morning,warp factor 2-ENGAGE!!!

[Blade]

My fav qoute "Helm Warp 1 Engage!"

[Iroquois]

Ah Star Trek, I don't love it, but I don't hate it either. I liked Voyager the best. I believe that voyager took on a more Starwars view of the universe, that being that the galaxy is a dangerous place, which is probably a more realistic view of things. Not all beings we run into will be peaceful and many will want to fight. We are but a speck in a wide uncharted expanse, nobody knows whats around the next corner.  

I never liked the original series, too campy and the sets, even for the time could have been way better than they were. Enterprise seems very campy as well, sort of "golly gee wiz" as the Toronto Sun TV Magazine put it.

[Professor Brensec]

I remember asking this question in one of the previous Trekkie threads and no-one could help, so I try again. maybe someone has seen what I need, or at least a formula to calculate same.

I'd like to get hold of a Warp scale of some sort. Even though it's fictitious, there was a scale worked out, either real or invented, for what each factor represented in terms of light speed.

We all know Warp 1 is the speed of light (C x 1).
Each factor increases exponentially to the point where I know from a couple of mentions in Star Trek episodes and library info that Warp 6 is (C x 392).
Apparently Warp 10 is supposed to be an infinite speed which will place the ship (or object) at every point in the Universe simultaneously (ungraspable for me) however, they speak of Warp 9.95 (Voyagers top speed) as being as "near as damn it" to (C x 1000), ie, 75 years to travel 75,000 light years back to Earth at maximum Warp.

Has anyone seen or know of a chart or scale, or even a formula to calculate what each Warp factor (or part thereof) is?

If anyone has seen an episode or read on a "movie cover story outline" etc that mentions exactly what another of the factors is equal to, that may help if I can get enough reference to work out the formula.

Thanks  ;D

[Professor Brensec]

[quote]Ah Star Trek, I don't love it, but I don't hate it either. I liked Voyager the best. I believe that voyager took on a more Starwars view of the universe, that being that the galaxy is a dangerous place, which is probably a more realistic view of things. Not all beings we run into will be peaceful and many will want to fight. We are but a speck in a wide uncharted expanse, nobody knows whats around the next corner.

[denishc]

 Since we're on this "Star Trek" thread there is a question I have about its latest incarnation, "Enterprise", that's been bothering me.  Is the character Sub-Commander Ta Pol the same character that presided over Spock's wedding to Te'Pring in the original series?

      (Please excuse any misspelling of the names.)

 Thanks.

[Rifleman]

All hands, prepare for collision.....we are approaching the future once again and it appears we can't avoid a few bumps as we overrun the next generation, DS-9, and some other entities which have evolved in a space and time we once occupied................Capt Christopher, report to the transporter deck, and hurry, ....you only have a hundred years to get there...........

Now hear this.......all decks...........will Yoeman Rand report to the cabin of Security Officer Rifleman...........

[Professor Brensec]

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[#2]

"It's life Jim. But not as we know it.."

 LOL, that's one of the the lines in the song "Star Trekin' ", a parody of the show, sometimes heard on the Dr. Demento radio show over here in the states. It starts out "Star Trekin' across the universe, boldy going forward 'cause we can't find reverse........." It degrades from there. A very funny song.

[denishc]

Hello brensec,
 Yes, that's the episode I'm thinking about.  If she is it would be an "interesting" way to tie the two series together.

[Professor Brensec]

[quote]Hello brensec,

[phil509]

[quote]I remember asking this question in one of the previous Trekkie threads and no-one could help, so I try again. maybe someone has seen what I need, or at least a formula to calculate same.

I'd like to get hold of a Warp scale of some sort. Even though it's fictitious, there was a scale worked out, either real or invented, for what each factor represented in terms of light speed.

We all know Warp 1 is the speed of light (C x 1).
Each factor increases exponentially to the point where I know from a couple of mentions in Star Trek episodes and library info that Warp 6 is (C x 392).
Apparently Warp 10 is supposed to be an infinite speed which will place the ship (or object) at every point in the Universe simultaneously (ungraspable for me) however, they speak of Warp 9.95 (Voyagers top speed) as being as "near as damn it" to (C x 1000), ie, 75 years to travel 75,000 light years back to Earth at maximum Warp.

Has anyone seen or know of a chart or scale, or even a formula to calculate what each Warp factor (or part thereof) is?

If anyone has seen an episode or read on a "movie cover story outline" etc that mentions exactly what another of the factors is equal to, that may help if I can get enough reference to work out the formula.

Thanks

[Craig.]

warp 10 was attained by tom paris once and it caused his DNA to alter in some weird way. as for the inertial dampners i know thats what they are used for but then removed the point as it had no relevence to fozzers question as he asked for a simple explination. as for a warp scale its actually impossible to give you one, because it has actually changed twice, there was the original warp scale used in the original series that had a maximum of warp 5 which was the equivelent of warp 3 in the next generation series. there was an explination given in one episode as to why it was changed but i cant remember why, and they seem to use a differant scale in enterprise to.

[HawkerTempest5]

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Is this the episode where Spock goes thru the "fon par" (spelling?) and returns to Vulcan only to find that his "intended" has another in mind. Somehow their ends up being a fight to the death between Spock and Kirk. McCoy renders Kirk "dead" by means of an injection so that the rules are satisfied.

If this is the episode you mean, I don't know if the Vulcan woman in charge is the same as she who is depicted in the new series. I'll have a look around and see if I can find out.

Hang on and I get back.