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It's just a faster route to get through a hyperspace dead zone it's a retcon but at least a somewhat logical one if you ignore the sapient hyperspeed space whales.
You also have to ignore the whole 'falcons exist a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away' thing.
Me, I go with 'George didn't know what a parsec was. The ship goes super fast.' I mean he's not a scientist.
He didn't, he admits it.
Yeah, and I'm fine with that. I don't need a "plausible" explanation for everything. Same with Star Trek. In Voyager, Tom Paris goes faster than warp 10, which is infinitely fast. And he doesn't travel infinitely far. Or all that far at all. How is that possible? The writers said so. Why did he turn into a salamander afterward? Because that's what happens when you go faster than warp 10. Whatever, as long as I'm enjoying it.
Edit: also, as far as I know, the TV show with the most people with advanced degrees who have worked on it is Futurama and they never let science get in the way of a good joke.
Warp 10 is infinitely fast, then how come the upgraded Enterprise D can go warp 13!?!?!
edit: I don't know how to make this a link...
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/All_Good_Things..._(episode)#Continuity
#it'sJustAShowIShouldReallyJustRelax
Don't they keep redefining exactly how fast warp 10 is? I seem to recall that it keeps getting faster over the years
The Enterprise D Technical Manual that Sternbach and Okuda released, which was supposed to be about as canon as it gets, says warp 10 is infinite speed. Go figure.
Maybe it's Warp 9.9 that is ever increasing. I don't really remember, but I distinctly remember reading two different tech manuals describing the "fastest possible speed of any federation vessel" as two entirely different multiples of C, and Warp 10 being defined as the fastest possible speed.
Warp 10 was supposed to be unreachable because it was infinite speed and warp speed was rated on a curve. They decided to change that.
Gotcha, I knew something had changed about it over the years, but couldn't remember the specifics.
Tos speeds and afterwards are different.