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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How fast is the fastest ship in Star Trek?

But in terms of unmodified ships that can travel safely at high speed, the fastest Starfleet vessel was for a long time considered to be the USS Prometheus. Introduced in Star Trek: Voyager, the Prometheus is an experimental vessel capable of Warp Factor 9.99 without the usual loss of structural integrity.
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What is the most powerful Star Trek ship?

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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Is Discovery the fastest ship?

Discovery can travel instantaneously across space via the mycelial network, but in terms of warp factor, the Prometheus is the fastest ship in the fleet.
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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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Warp Speed Comparison



How fast is warp 9.9 in Star Trek?

Only in a single episode of Star Trek Voyager there was a specific numerical speed value given for a warp factor. 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).
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What is the coolest Star Trek ship?

The Best Star Trek Starships
  • Vulcan Suurok Class.
  • Constitution Class Retcon.
  • Borg Cube.
  • Prometheus Class.
  • Constellation Class.
  • Defiant Class Escort.
  • Constitution Class, Kelvin Timeline.
  • Romulan Valdore Class Warship.
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What is the most famous starship?

The USS Enterprise NCC 1701 is most likely the most widely recognized spaceship in all of pop culture.
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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 fast was warp speed?

In the sci-fi universe of "Star Trek," spaceships with warp drives can zoom past the normally impenetrable limit of light speed, or about 186,282 miles per second (299,792 kilometers per second) in a vacuum.
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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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How fast was Captain Kirk's Enterprise?

The Enterprise captained by James T. Kirk (William Shatner) is a much faster ship than the NX-01, coming in at warp 8.0. This means the NCC=1701 can travel at speeds that is 512 times the speed of light or 512c.
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What does NCC stand for on Star Trek?

In plate #3 of the Original Franz Joseph Designs Star Trek Blueprints, NCC-1700 is clearly labeled as the "Naval Construction Contract Number" for the USS Constitution.
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What is the best ship for Star Trek Fleet Command?

The Talla common ship

The Talla is a common ship and is currently the second most common ship you can have among the Dreadnoughts. Typically, the Talla is one of the best ships in the game (it is the best)! Simply, this ship is fully armoured. It will be particularly effective against an enemy Explorer ship.
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What does USS stand for?

The prefix “USS,” meaning “United States Ship,” is used in official documents to identify a commissioned ship of the Navy. It applies to a ship while she is in commission.
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What is the largest Starfleet ship?

The largest Starfleet starship to appear anywhere on screen is the upgraded Enterprise-J briefly seen in the episode "Azati Prime". It's described as being "almost 2 miles" in length (i.e. 3.2 kilometers) as compared to Borg cubes which are approx 3 kilometers in length along each edge.
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Which Enterprise was the best?

3 Enterprise (Original)

The first is usually the best, and in many ways, the original Enterprise from the 1966 series remains the most iconic design in science-fiction. It's hard to argue with its basic simplicity and instantly recognizable silhouette.
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Is Voyager bigger than the Enterprise?

An Intrepid-class vessel capable of holding 200 crew members, the U.S.S. Voyager NCC-74656 is one of the fastest and most powerful starships in Starfleet. Although only 345 meters long, about half the size of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D, Voyager is more technologically advanced than previous Starfleet vessels.
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How long would it take to travel 70000 light years at warp 9?

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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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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How long does it take to travel from Earth to Vulcan?

Well, I believe it has been stated that Vulcan is about 16 light-years away from Earth, so even if they were going at Warp 9 the entire time (which seems improbable, given what we've been told about travelling at warp speed), it still should've taken them at least three days to get there.
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