From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: David{at}block.net
Subject: Re: STAR TREK THE WRATH OF KHAN: was What Did You Watch?
2013-06-01(Saturday)

On 6/16/2013 6:24 PM, ~consul wrote:
> 'tis on this 6/6/2013 12:40 PM, wrote David Johnston thus to say:
>> On 6/5/2013 11:35 PM, Wiseguy wrote:
>>> David Johnston  wrote in
>>>> On 6/5/2013 12:41 AM, Halmyre wrote:
>>>>> On Jun 4, 5:06 pm, anim8rFSK  wrote:
>>>>>> The history of the universe and basic physics were already
>>>>>> completely different in the first movie when Nero
first appeared.
>>>>> But the laws of physics are...erm, unchangeable...
>>>> I dunno about that.  The way warp drive works changed
between TOS and
>>>> TNG.  And that wasn't even supposed to be a parallel universe.
>>> They took place several decades apart.  Can't there be any advancements
>>> in what is a FICTIONAL universe?
>> I don't consider changing how speed is measured to a asymptotic scale
>> to be an advancement.
>
> I was wondering what was meant up there, but if that was it, isn't like
> changing the temperature scales? First it was -32F, then it was 0C, now
> it's 273K.

It's more like changing from miles per hour to knots. It isn't just the 
size of warp factors that changed, it's what they are measuring.
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