USS Enterprise Evolution in Photos (Gallery) ![]() Under the new scale, a starship could get from Earth to Alpha Centauri in about 37 hours at warp factor 8. ![]() By the era of "Star Trek: The Next Generation," the warp speed scale was recalibrated. In reality, the script writers arbitrarily allowed the Enterprise to get to wherever it was going, as fast as was convenient for storytelling. Warp factor 8 equals the cube of 8 (8 times 8 times 8), or 512 times light speed.Įven this velocity is too slow to allow starships to travel as quickly as they appear to on TV. ![]() ![]() The crew of the Enterprise measures velocity in warp factors.
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