remember when TNG established that warp travel is causing space climate change and then the writers proceeded to never mention it again except to say that they're ignoring it?
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yeah, they establish that warp travel has cumulative deleterious effects on space and can cause space disasters and at the end of the episode they're all like "wow nothing will ever be the same, we're instituting a warp speed limit of warp 5"
and then only mention it a couple times after that episode and even then only to explain "well this is an emergency so obviously we're ignoring the speed limit"
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I thought the Burn was the big disaster that resulted from ignoring it and then it turned out to be caused by some space baby. -
yeah, they establish that warp travel has cumulative deleterious effects on space and can cause space disasters and at the end of the episode they're all like "wow nothing will ever be the same, we're instituting a warp speed limit of warp 5"
and then only mention it a couple times after that episode and even then only to explain "well this is an emergency so obviously we're ignoring the speed limit"
@SeanAloysiusOBrien @coriander One of the TNG movies has a region of space deeply damage by warp travel, doesn't it?
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@SeanAloysiusOBrien @coriander One of the TNG movies has a region of space deeply damage by warp travel, doesn't it?
I don't recall the TNG movies that clearly but I feel like I would remember if they said that explicitly, idk
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I don't recall the TNG movies that clearly but I feel like I would remember if they said that explicitly, idk
@SeanAloysiusOBrien @coriander I'm in a similar boat -- I think I'm conflating the plots of ST: Insurrection and the episode with the Warp 5 speed limit:
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Force_of_Nature_(episode)
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@SeanAloysiusOBrien stories about everyone trying to come up with a warp alternative and maybe using unscruplous methods or maybe someone does come up with something and its even more dangerous
@Taweret @SeanAloysiusOBrien Personally I would have loved to see the story of people coming up with a solution that actually works well
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@SeanAloysiusOBrien @coriander I'm in a similar boat -- I think I'm conflating the plots of ST: Insurrection and the episode with the Warp 5 speed limit:
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Force_of_Nature_(episode)
yeah the warp 5 speed limit episode is the one I'm discussing in the OP
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