> PS> > In the episode "All Good Things" the "USS Pasteur" and "USS 
 > Enterprise"
 > PS>do
 > PS> > Warp 13. In the future, that is :)
 > PS>yeah well..  That's just yet another inconsistency. No matter how good 
 > you
 > PS>technology is, you can *never ever* travel faster than Warp 10. This is
 > Well, no, not really.   Actually, that one wasn't a YATI at all,
 > since that was an alternate *possible* future in the Q-altered
 > timeline.
Oh okey. That means it was not neccessarily the same W scale. That's a 
completely different thing - yes.
 > It does however bring up an interesting question.  How many times
 > would it require before the inconsistency becomes the consistency
 > & the former standard then becomes the YATI.  The "O'Brien's rank"
 > thing is a good example.  He started off as what was presumably a
 > LT (& was even specifically addressed as that on at least one
 > occasion). Yet as time wore on it became more & more obvious that
 > he was *not* a commissioned officer, & his rank & insignia were
 > continually redefined (currently holding at "Senior Chief
 > Specialist" ).
I personally don't remember him being refered to as a Leutainent (did I spell 
that right? :), but it's been a while since I saw season 1 of TNG.
 > One of these days, like it or not, we may be faced with even more
 > basic RETCON regarding W10.  At the moment it can be written off
RETCON? I can't find the print-out of all the acronyms :)
 > due to one factor or another, but eventually if history is any
 > indicator it may be something we have to look at.  I hope I'm
 > dead by then. 
:) I wish they'd take more care to avoid these YATIs, both regarding these 
"general" things aswell as the incocsistencies in, and "abuse" of ST 
physics/technology.
They usually have a pretty good explanation of how something works (Warp 
drives, transporters etc) but they don't take the limitations of these 
explanations in acount when shooting the episodes... I can't think of a good 
concrete example right now, but they're there all right...
/ Peter Schuller
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