5*** Quoting Peter Schuller to Joel Scott Kolodziejczak dated 08-26-97 ***
> 
> Oh I'm sure he's right. I just pointed out that it, refering to the 
> show, was 
> wrong. Probably because the writers made a misstake, and simply didn't 
> take 
> the Warp 9 - Warp 10 part of the scale into account.
> 
> Because the thing is, that the "problem" here, isn't the actuall speed 
> a 
> starship can travel, it's matter of what Warp 10 is, and by definition,
> it's 
> infinite speed. Whichever speed that might be. Sorta...
> 
> So I'm not saying anyone here's incorrect, I'm saying the show's 
> incorrect (or 
> maybe I'm having some sort of brain mal function :).
> 
> Personally I don't like the TNG scale really. First of all, you can't 
> calculate the actuall speed from being given a WF above 9, because 
> apperantly 
>  just drew the scale the last part, so that it'd look 
> good or 
> something. I much better system would be to have Warp 10 being, "TOS 
> Warp 10", 
> and Warp 11 being "TOS Warp 20" and so on... Or simply have a 
> "constant" Warp 
> scale or whatever it's called.
> 
> There's really no sense in having a "closed-end" scale, since infinite 
> speed 
> could be expressed in some other way. And besides, if Warp 10 is 
> inifinte 
> speed, than what the heck is Warp 9.999999999999?  How many 9:s can you
> apply 
> till you reach infinite speed? Infinite! You can't, with a Warp scale 
> or any 
> other scale that I can think of, express "infinite speed minus Warp 1" 
> for 
> example. 
> 
> I'll shut up now :)
> 
> / Peter Schuller
> 
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    Ok...what about the episode in TNG when Barkley connected himself into 
the computer!  What kind of travle did he use!  Sure didn't look like warp to 
me!
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