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In the fictional universe of Star Trek, the warp drive is a form of faster-than-light propulsion that allows a starship to go faster than the speed of light.
On Earth it was invented by Zefram Cochrane, in 2063, as depicted in (though information from The Original Series disputes this date somewhat). According to the latest Star Trek series, Enterprise, many other civilizations had warp drive before humans, notably the Vulcans, who had more advanced warp drive technology than humans even in the 22nd century.
In the Star Trek pilot episode " The Cage", warp was mentioned with the term " time warp". The episode revealed that the "time barrier" had recently been broken, but since this was given as news to a group of shipwrecked interstellar travellers, it could not refer to the breaking of the light barrier, as has been suggested. (It is worth noting that the pilot episode featured a number of things inconsistent with the rest of the series.)
The speed of warp travel is usually given only in warp factors. It is generally assumed that warp 1 is the speed of light, and that at higher factors speed increases exponentially. Several episodes of the original series placed the Enterprise in peril by having it go at absurdly high warp factors, once as high as warp 14.6 ("That Which Survives").
Realising that this was a problem and wanting to remove this plot element, the creators of The Next Generation decided that warp 10 should be the maximum (however even ST:TNG violated this in the episode with The Traveller). Backstage treknobabbleTreknobabble is a portmanteau of Star Trek and " technobabble" (itself a portmanteau of "technology" and "babble"). It is used humorously by fans of the various Star Trek television series, and disparagingly by its critics, to describe the infamous amount suggests that the warp scale was recalibrated, with the new warp 5 being the old warp 6, and warp 10 being infinite speed and unattainable. The VoyagerStar Trek: Voyager (also known as ST:VOY or VOY is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe. It was produced for seven seasons from 1995 to 2001, and is the only Star Trek series to have had a female captain as a lead character. episode " Threshold " agreed with this, in that the characters said it was impossible—but then they achieved it anyway, with the side effect that they hyper- evolvedThis article is about biological evolution. For other possible meanings, see Evolution (disambiguation). Evolution generally refers to any process of change over time. However, in the context of the life sciences, evolution is a change in the genetic make (reversibly) into anthropomorphicAnthropomorphism also referred to as personification or prosopopeia is the attribution of human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, forces of nature, and others. Anthropomorphism" comes from two Greek words, , anthropos meaning human, and , mor newtNewts are small, usually bright-coloured semiaquatic salamanders of North America, Europe and North Asia. The three common British species are the Great Crested Newt Triturus cristatus , Smooth Newt Triturus vulgaris and the Palmate Newt Triturus helvetics.
The term "transwarp" has been used a number of times, referring both to BorgThis article is about a fictional race of aliens. For other uses, see Borg (disambiguation). The Borg are a race of cyborgs in the fictional Star Trek universe. Overview Borg are humanoids of different races that are enhanced with cybernetic implants, giv propulsion, and to a Starfleet development project in . Just as the generation of a warp field around a starship is required to enter warp speed without using infinite amounts of energy, thereby breaking the light barrier (a theoretically impossible event in our universe), so a transwarp field is required to reach very high FTL speeds (making a ship capable of crossing galactic distances in a very short time). At least the Borg (in the Star Trek: The Next Generation two-part episode "Descent" and in the Star Trek: Voyager final episode "Endgame") have discovered anomalies called "transwarp conduits"—regions in subspace that facilitate transwarp travel. Artificial conduits are linked together with transwarp hubs. Six hubs were known to exist, but one was destroyed in the Voyager episode "Endgame".