-=> Quoting Joel Scott Kolodziejczak to Peter Schuller <=-
 JSK> 5*** Quoting Peter Schuller to Joel Scott Kolodziejczak dated
 JSK> 08-26-97 *** > 
 
 > 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 
. . . 
 > 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 
The whole point of the TNG scale was to be closed-end.
"" drew it like that because the producers didn't want a 
repeat of what happened in TOS, where one ep the max speed was Warp 11, the 
next it was Warp 14...
How many 9s can you add to 9.9 before you reach 10? to 99.9 before you reach 
100? to 235.9 before you reach 236? Infinite! So what?
Paul
... Excuse me for butting in - I'm interrupt driven.
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