When I use the can opener in the kitchen, my cat can hit warp 1.2.

'as it would appear in its manual' Chapter 1: thank you for purchasing our Galaxy Class Star Ship.....

When you hear “9.7 seems a little slow and 9.995 a little fast” and know what he’s taking about, you’ve watched a lot of trek.

I was starting to think moving at ~4000 times the speed of light would make the galaxy seem tiny with how quickly it could be traversed, then seeing how many seconds it took just to leave our tiny little solar system even at that speed humbled my perception of the scale of space once again

Conclusion: space is big on a completely different scale of "big"

It's a good way of helping us to understand the vastness of the universe. For example, when Voyager was transported to the Delta quadrant (by an alien entity, known as the Caretaker), they found themselves more than 70,000 light years from Earth. Although this is a vast distance away, it was still only about two thirds of the way across our Milky Way galaxy. When they eventually set off for home, they knew that it would take them around 70 years to get back to Earth at an average of Warp 6 (roughly 975 times the speed of light). They were limited to averaging Warp 6 because this was Voyager's safe high duration (non harmful) top speed. Although Voyager could travel much faster than this - up to W9.975 - it was only possible for short periods, or quick bursts due to pressure on the warp engines and their limited supply of dilithium. If they were able to travel at Voyager's absolute maximum warp factor non-stop, then the journey time could have been reduced to just 16 years. But what really blows your mind, is when you convert this to realistic terms in the 21st century. The fastest man-made space object to date, is the Helios 2 probe, which reached a maximum velocity of 253,000mph. If that probes set off from the Delta quadrant on a journey back to Earth when Apes were just starting to walk upright at the beginning of the Neogene epoch around about 6 million years ago.. .. the probe still wouldn't have reached by today. In fact, it would have to set off around about the middle Jurassic period when dinosaurs were walking the Earth - or around 185 MILLION YEARS ago before it could reach Earth by today. And now that we know that, let's put space travel into perspective. If Helios 2 wanted to travel to the nearest star Alpha Centauri, travelling at its top speed of 253,000mph, it would take about 10,500 years.. .. on Saturn V only reached 1/10 of that speed on its journey to the moon. Meaning that, if we were to travel at that same speed, it would take us over 100,000 years to reach Alpha Centauri. At Warp 6 Voyager could do the same journey in 9.7 hours. At Warp 9.975, the journey would take just over 2 hours. And that's just 4.22 light years away. The Milky Way galaxy is about 105,000 light years across. Travelling at Warp 6, a journey across the galaxy from one side to the other would take more than 107 years. If one were able to travel non-stop at Warp 9.975, more than 4300 times the speed of light, it would still take more than 24 years! And that's just to cross our own little Galaxy. Travelling at more than 799 MILLION MILES per second. That's nearly 9 times to the Sun and back - in just 1 second. And just for reference, remember that at Saturn V's top speed, it would take more than 8 months just to reach the Sun - ONCE. The vastness of the Universe becomes apparent when one thinks in these terms. Our nearest galaxy not gravitationally bound to our own (i.e., not a satellite galaxy), is the Andromeda (M31) spiral. It is around 2.6 million light years from our own. If you were unlucky enough to be transported to the Andromeda galaxy by an alien, then at Warp 6 - more than 900 times the speed of light - your journey home would take nearly 2700 years..!! ... And at Warp 9.975 it would still take you an incredible 603 years. And that's just to our nearest non-satellite galaxy. Just think about that for a second. No, really think about it. In the time it takes you to read this paragraph, light would have travelled more than 2 million miles. Light, which travels at 669 million miles per hour, can travel from London to New York in half the time it takes you to blink. Can orbit the equator seven times - in less than ONE second. Can get from the Earth to the Sun (93 million miles) and back.... ...Three times - and then still have enough time left over to make it most of the way back to the Sun again.. In just ONE HOUR. So, Captain Janeway, your 70 year journey might have seemed long on your way back from the Delta quadrant, but just grant yourself lucky that the Caretaker wasn't in a different Galaxy altogether - like Andromeda. So, if it took more than 600 years to reach our nearest non-satellite galaxial neighbour, the Andromeda galaxy, travelling at more than 4300 times the speed of light (Warp 9.975), then just imagine how long it would take to reach the biillions of other galaxies in the observable universe. They could be hundreds, or even thousands of times further away than the Andromeda Galaxy. So Voyager's journey home could have taken millions of years, even travelling at maximum warp. And that's just the observable universe..

Way back in the 1960's when Star Trek first came out, there was an equation showing the idea for what Warp factors were. Not only did you cube the factor (Warp 2 = 2x2x2 = 8 times light speed), but you also included what was called the "Cochrane Factor" which was dependent on ambient spatial mass (such as hydrogen atoms, etc.). The more mass traveled through, the greater the velocity. Although it could be reduced to nearly zero outside the galaxy (making intergalactic travel a major problem), while within the Milky Way the average spatial mass would propel the vessel around 1200 times faster. Applying the Cochrane Factor into the equation, the Kirk's Enterprise going at Warp 1 would arrive at Proxima Centauri not in 4.5 years, but in less than 2 days, and at Warp 8 in a matter of minutes. They obviously, for story reasons, recalculated the Warp factors a bit. Ships move at Plot Speed now.

The NX-01 might seem to move at a snail's pace compared to the other ships, but seeing it make it to Jupiter in seconds still blows my mind.

Trip claimed NX-01 could make Neptune and back in six minutes. Meanwhile, Enterprise D could do that in FOUR SECONDS.

You can just imagine the starship sales man saying " well depending on how quick you want to run away from the borg"

You also gotta keep in mind that, even though the warp engines can go to max speed for their respective ships, they hardly use max warp, because it would wear out and destroy the engine. Max warp is only for emergencies.

Originally the D was apparently supposed to have “Ultrawarp” drive as the successor to Transwarp in the Excelsior Class, with a top speed of 100,000 x C or C squared, but Gene had it rolled back. I read this in one of the promo books for the show or the TNG gaming book.

Voyager 2 just reached interstellar space today. It took 41.3 years to achieve that.

Simple and straight-up comparison.

As an elite dangerous player I can tell you these speeds will get you nowhere in space

Just noticed that the ships are to scale with each other, fantastic attention to detail

And in real life - we can do 430,000 mph (our fastest probe). Or Warp 0.0007 - reality sucks, don't it?

"You’re slow, light!" -EC Henry "I'm giving it all she's got, captain!" -light

Who else pretends they're travelling at warp speed when driving in a snowstorm?

"we'll throw the 1701-D in there, just for fun." I love trekkies doing their own thing. Great content. I kind of wish I knew how fast the delta flyer was compared to normal shuttlecraft. You know Tom had that bad girl overclocked.

I like how it would take Voyager hours to travel from earth to the nearest star, yet Star Trek warp animation always shows stars zooming by like an old Windows screensaver.

When you need to drop off Troi's annoying mother on Betazed. That's when you go warp 9.

Would like to see a “race” to Alpha Centauri” as the times given on show always seem absurdly short for writers expediency.

As I used to play Star Trek Armada, this is quite accurate. The Intrepid class was so fast compared to the other small starships. Fast impulse speed and warp speed. The Sovereign class was also fast too, but had a slow impulse speed compared to the other large starships.

Finally ! a comparison, it is refreshing to see this kind of a test, and mind boggling to really consider it.

To me, this does an excellent job of explaining why the Federation and other factions were able to expand the scope of their territory exponentially from the 22nd to the 25th centuries.

1:47 What really propelled the Enterprise-D to those insane speeds was that Triforce emblem on the dilithium crystal chamber.

stuff like this reminds me just how mind bogging huge space is

Go little beam of light go! I believe in you!

I've definitely got a soft spot for the Voyager. ST:Voy was my first Star Trek. I was born in 1994 and my dad and I would lay on the floor and watch it. Good times.

This was fun to watch! Like eating dessert: you don’t need it but you sure enjoy it!

What a great video. Clearly laid out, well-spoken and explained, and great animations and graphs to drive home the point. Thank you for this.

I don't normally like these theoretical comparisons but this is well thought out and explained, good job!

That was the coolest thing ever.

Michael Okuda's revised warp drive formula: v=w^(10/3)×c where v is velocity, w is the warp factor (w lim

Light speed is incredibly slow, when traveling through the universe.

But what about ludicrous speed?

Ships have plot speed, which is as fast as you need them to be. Like in First Contact, it should have taken the Enterprise E two weeks at maximum warp, to get from the neutral zone back to earth.

Excellent video showing the scale of our galaxy and warp speeds! I’ve always been curios to see a “race” such as this. Well done!

My main concern with the concept of FTL travel has always been how craft, let alone the people onboard would survive the trip without being liquified by the insane amount of gravitational forces being applied to them while travelling at such ridiculous speeds. I know there are canon explanations for the technology that makes it possible, but it always seemed like a major stretch imo.

I would love a comparison between the destructive abilities of the same ships you used in this video

This is so dorky. I absolutely love it and that's why I subscribed.

This is great! Was just watching Enterprise and this kinda helps understand the struggle of that crew.

The problem with the warp scale is the fact that according to TNG-era scientists, warp 10 was an impossible 'infinite speed'. In the novels, it's described as being 'everywhere and nowhere at once'. Not quite in those words, but it's demonstrated in the novel 'Vendetta'.

Even with the "revised scale" space is still "really really big" and the writers screw with the time required to get from point A to point B continuously. They just never say "Engage Plot Drive!" out loud...

My take away: Light is SO slow! :) Great job!

it's dissapointing to think that FTL will most likely never happen

3:03 Movie mistake. In the latest Enterprise series (NX-01) (with a maximum WARP of 5) The characters miraculously managed to fly to two star systems to save the child of the blue alien and manage to return to the creation of the Federation (it took them no more than a day) Although on WARP 5 it takes 8.5 DAYS to fly only to Proxima Centauri...

This is the *best* example of warp speeds I've ever seen.

Yeah, but how fast can it do the kessel run?

Love this stuff. Thank you for taking the time to do it I hope you're still out here doing it because there's something I'd like you to try to make a comparison too. Warp drive vs. Transwarp drive also known as quantum slipstream. Here is Borg Collective explanation of what their technology can do. by 2374 - A vessel belonging to species 116 named the Dauntless was assimilated by the collective, it's quantum slipstream capable of speeds of at least 10,000 light-years per hour. That is 87,600,000c was assimilated and adapted to enhance the previous transwarp conduit technology. C= the exact speed of light. I hope this isn't too much. I would love to see the differences with the same type diagram you used to make the differences between the different Enterprises. Thank you in advance

This is super fascinating :) And yet, comparing to the Dreadnoughts in E. E. "Doc" Smiths Lensman Series, which fly through our entire Milky Way Galaxy in 20 minutes.. well :P

Warp one is slightly faster than the speed of light. Covered in one of the novels. It’s actually described really well too. The symbol that everyone wears for starfleet on their uniforms represents the basic theory of why the ships can go faster then the speed of light in warp speed. They couldn’t break the rule so they go around it. The A shape with the star in the center. The bottom represents the speed of light, the Star symbol represents a ship going faster than, and the arch around the top and connected to the bottom line represents the warp bubble generated around the ship.

Brilliant. I'd like to see a comparison of how long it would take to get to the next nearest star?

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I know that dialog references to how fast the ships are travelling are often very inconsistent, but Tom Paris gives the most explicit link we’ve ever seen between a warp factor and its real life speed in “The 37s”, when he says that warp 9.9 is equivalent to 4 billion miles per second. That comes out to around 21,000 c, considerably higher than the numbers you’ve used. Again, dialog is all over the place in shows like this, but to my knowledge we never have another example of a character flat out saying that warp factor X corresponds to Y speed, so this should count for something in our understanding of canonical speeds.

Its a Chinese manual badly translated into English. Here's an Excerpt: Transporter Room: For the room of Transport, first engage the collectors of Bussard, then walk to the pad of standing whist enhancement of patterns is happily opened. When all patterns are strictly enhanced and no appendages are of any distance from the pad of standing, happy energising may commence. Quantum Torpedoes Place the lines of quantum in the straws aligned for their purpose. When the line of quantum is firmly in the straw the alignment of magnetic corsets will engage. Warp Drive The Engine of extreme speed is standing in the mechanical room. The enemy of matter engines will be ready to march forward when the ratio of matter and it's enemy are married.

This is amazing. I have never seen anyone do something like this before.

PHENOMENAL explanation! Thank you so much!!!

I really love this. Would be interesting to see how long journeys to nearby stars would take - considerably sped up, obviously.

I e come across this video several times in my feed and EVERY single time I watch it. Never get tired of it

They go as fast as the script requires them to

I love stuff like this that gives a visual reference to better comprehend a subject. Earth to Jupiter is a massive distance so the race with the nx 01 and 1701 gave me an appreciation for the speeds being traveled. With that being said it blows my mind at how fast the E and voyager get to interstellar space. Really makes me wish we had this technology today.

how can you not love this!!!

Tom Paris achieved warp 10 in a shuttle craft before evolving into a lizard. That’s significant I feel.

Quantum slipstream and transwarp versus standard warp drives

In the first episode of Enterprise. Archer and Trip mention warp 4.5, and Archer says, "Neptune and back in 6 minutes" funny how that math actually checks out. They really did pay someone in 2004 to sit down with a calculator and AOL to figure out how long it would take for a round trip to neptune from earth at warp 4.5 in the TOS scale. All for a throwaway line that most people forgot.

I LOVE this stuff, thanks for posting!!!

So light we see from Jupiter is 40 minutes old? Wow, I didn't realize just how far away even objects in our own solar system were!

Put Janeway inside Enterprise-E, let it mature and observe how faster it gets. Better yet, put Janeway iniside Enterprise NX-01, let it mature for a whole 4 years and observe it become faster than Enterprise-E. Not possible, I hear you say? Janeway will MAKE it possible! Janeway kicks arses.

great video!!!! love these kinds of vids, reality vs. sci-fi!! and it clearly illustrates how big space is!!!

I really like this video. Nice work. I don't know how much is out there, but it would be neat to see a comparison of how the warp fields are formed around these same ships. Especially since the Intrepid class introduced the variable geometry pylons.

This really helps one understand just how fast these ships actually go on a scale we can easily comprehend. I knew they were fast but never had anything to visually compare them to like this. Someday WARP speed will be a reality for humanity. I doubt it'll happen anytime soon but given enough time I believe anything you can imagine in the mind will eventually be possible in reality.

I love these videos, that rationalise the Star Trek universe. Thank you for taking the time to do these!!

Second comparison is gold-there was that ENT episode where the NX alpha was being tested to go to Jupiter after all.

Great comparison, well put in perspective

I’m sure that it feels faster when you’re listening to steppenwolf.

Looks like it's a logarithmic scale for warp speeds.

Excellent way to demonstrate this visually .

Impressive, I have been looking for a good explanation of this for a while.

ENT Broken Bow, Neptune and back (at Warp 4.5) was said to be 6 minutes.

You forgot ludicrous speed and going into plaid.

The crazy thing about this is that even at these entirely theoretical (and very probably impossible) speeds even our own Galaxy is crazy big and unreachable let alone the Universe.

I always remember in the episode where Captain Jelico is in command of the Enterprise, he tells Data at one point "I want to be at nebula in 15 minutes!" to which data says "Aye, sir!" and gets them to there in 15 minutes. But 15 minutes at warp 9.6 barely gets you anywhere you aren't already more-or-less at.

So Warp Speed is an exponential scale.

This is why I never understood why, in the closing scene, Kirk would often say something like, "Mr. Sulu, ahead warp factor one." At that rate, it would take almost the entire five year mission to reach Proxima Centauri. Or, for that matter, the stars streaming past the viewport at warp one. It just doesn't work that way.

I heard Kirk say, "Take me to Jupiter. *smile+pose till the end of the shot* " and when the race ended I heard Sulu say something about having arrived at Jupiter. The timing on the race was literally how long it would have taken on the show in-between those lines. Maybe there would be a Spock line, like he just questions Kirk like, " *questioning glance* Jupiter?"

Great stuff, @EC Henry!! Subscribed.

Even with Voyager being that fast, they were still stuck in one galaxy.. There are hundreds of billions of galaxies. We are small.

I REALLY want warp speed to be obtainable in real life - in my lifetime!

That was cool! Thanks for this video! Subscribed!

This was an amazing breakdown! Thanks! 👍🏽

The TOS ENTERPRISE was capable of doing 990 light years in 11 hours at warp 8. They changed the warp curve in TNG because they said warp speed was to fast. They needed the Galaxy to be more vast. So TNG crew could continue to Explorer strange new worlds. In TOS Star Base 12 is in the gamma quadrant. It would be interesting to see just how fast and old warp curve really was.

I just watched a video on the speed of fictional ships at 3am......ty KZfaq

I was thinking about the fact that over 4000x the speed of light made no sense for Voyager since Janeway said it would take 75 years to traverse 70,000 lightyears, but then I remembered that cruising speed will be significantly lower. I don’t remember the hard number, but I feel like Janeway often ordered warp 6 towards the ends of episodes. Maybe that was the least strenuous speed on the warp drive. It may be warp 8 though. I haven’t watched Voyager in a couple years though so correct me if I’m wrong

This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Thank you!

To think that all this time, the Federation's just been tooling around our own little galaxy...

2:28 😂😂😂 "engage"

This was exceptional. Thank you.

Great video. Thank you! Very inspiring! Good work! 👾