How long would it take to cross the Milky Way at warp 9?

At 'Warp' 9, you can travel to the Galactic center in 1.1 years. At Warp 16, you can travel to the current distance of the visible horizon to the universe some 15 billion light years distant, in 212 years. At Warp 25, this takes only 2.4 days, and at Warp 37 ( 0.99999...
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Is warp 9 faster than the speed of light?

In the episode "The 37's", Tom Paris tells Amelia Earhart that Warp 9.9 is about 4 billion miles per second (using customary units for the character's benefit). That is more than 14 times the value of Warp 9 and equal to around 21.400 times speed of light.
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How long would it take to travel 70 000 light years at warp 9?

In Star Trek: Voyager, it is stated that it will take 75 years to travel 70,000 light years to reach Federation space. It is stated that the Voyager can sustain a maximum crusing speed of warp 9.975.
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How long would it take to cross the galaxy at warp speed?

The disk of our home galaxy – the Milky Way – is bigger than we previously thought. A new study shows it would take 200,000 years for a spaceship traveling at the speed of light to go across the entire galaxy.
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Why is warp 10 Impossible?

Our solution was to redraw the warp curve so that the exponent of the warp factor increases gradually, then sharply as you approach Warp 10. At Warp 10, the exponent (and the speed) would be infinite, so you could never reach this value.
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How many mph is warp 1?

According to the Star Trek Encyclopedia, in simple terms, the new warp speed factor 1 is the exact speed of light, 299,792,458 m/s.
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Is warp 1 the speed of light?

Warp one, a veritable snail's pace in the world of Trek, is equal to the speed of light. Warp speeds exceeding warp one equal a multiple of C (the speed of light), but the exact speeds are variable, depending on the source material.
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Why would it take Voyager 75 years to get home?

Voyager was about 70,000 light-years away from home, and crew would often use "75 years" as the time it would take to get back home at top speed. This means the Voyager series used the old method of Warp calculation. 70,000/9.9753 is roughly 71 years.
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Will warp speed ever be possible?

Warp drives are theoretically possible if still far-fetched technology. Two recent papers made headlines in March when researchers claimed to have overcome one of the many challenges that stand between the theory of warp drives and reality.
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How fast is warp 9.9 in mph?

Actually, from on-screen dialogue, the USS Prometheus traveled towards Romulan space at Warp 9.9 (not 9.99). Mr. Paris already established earlier on Voyager (on-screen) that Warp 9.9 = 4 billion miles per second (21,473 times the speed of light).
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Is NASA working on a warp drive?

NASA is obviously still working out the kinks of their warp drive, but perhaps it's only a matter of time before at least neighboring star systems, like Proxima Centauri, will be in reach for human crews. Until then, we can only look at the furthest stars using our telescopes. ⓒ 2021 TECHTIMES.com All rights reserved.
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What is the fastest ship in Star Trek?

Constructed in the Beta Antares Shipyards and launched on Stardate 50749.5, the Prometheus is the first starship of its class, as well as the fastest and most innovative vessel in Starfleet.
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Is warp drive faster than light?

In 1994, physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a radical technology that would allow faster than light travel: the warp drive, a hypothetical way to skirt around the universe's ultimate speed limit by bending the fabric of reality.
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What speed is warp 8?

The crew of the Enterprise measures velocity in warp factors. Warp factor 8 equals the cube of 8 (8 times 8 times 8), or 512 times light speed. Even this velocity is too slow to allow starships to travel as quickly as they appear to on TV.
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What is 1 light-year away?

A light-year is the distance light travels in one year. How far is that? Multiply the number of seconds in one year by the number of miles or kilometers that light travels in one second, and there you have it: one light-year. It's about 5.9 trillion miles (9.5 trillion km).
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What happens every 176 years?

A Once-in-a-Lifetime Alignment

Calculations reveal it is possible for a spacecraft launched in the late 1970s to visit all four giant outer planets, using the gravity of each planet to swing the spacecraft on to the next. This alignment occurs once every 176 years.
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What is the strongest ship in Star Trek?

Most Powerful Star Trek Ships, Ranked
  • Krenim weapon ship. ...
  • U.S.S. ...
  • The “Doomsday Machine” ...
  • The Narada. ...
  • Species 8472 bioship. ...
  • V'Ger. ...
  • The Whale Probe. ...
  • The Borg Cube. No other starship strikes fear into the Federation like a Borg cube.
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Are the Borg ever defeated?

The crew of the Enterprise-D eventually managed to sever Locutus from the Borg Collective, save Picard, and ultimately defeat the Borg.
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Has Star Trek ever left the galaxy?

For all the boldly going where no one has gone before, leaving the galaxy is pretty uncommon within the various narratives of Trek. And yet, in the second TOS pilot, “Where No Man Has Gone Before,” the Enterprise left the galaxy.
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How fast is full impulse?

Full impulse speed is about one-quarter light speed, sufficient for interplanetary travel. Aboard Federation starships, fusion reactors power the engines using deuterium fuel to create helium plasma.
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How long would it take to get to Alpha Centauri at warp speed?

Moving at Voyager's speed, it would take 700 *centuries* for a mission to reach Alpha Centauri. With speeds like that, we stand to become the first generation to know life is out there, and to not be able to know much more than that. The prospect is maddening. Don't miss what matters.
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How long would it take to get to Mars at warp 2?

Mars is 200 million miles from Earth at it's farthest, 36 million at it's closest. So at Warp 2 they could arrive at Mars at it's closest from Earth in 24 seconds.
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How fast is transwarp speed?

Even considering the fastest "transwarp" (or "beyond warp") speed achieved by the Enterprise, which is about 8,323 times light speed, according to "Star Trek: The Next Generation — Technical Manual," a transgalactic voyage would take 24 years.
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Is warp faster than transwarp?

Yes. Transwarp is just a faster system than whatever standard warp drive was at any given time.
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