Encounter at Farpoint
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2016 5:41 pm
Ok, so the family and I just watched this episode Sunday Night, and I can't shake something.
When Picard was pushing the Enterprise to "Maximum Acceleration", they were quoted as traveling at Warp 9.5
As I understand this, this would be the speed of light times 10 to the 9.5(th?) power.
When he ordered the saucer to be separated, (which as I understand only has impulse engines), why did the saucer not go flying backward at catastrophic negative acceleration as soon as it exited the warp bubble and returned to relativistic space?
When Picard was pushing the Enterprise to "Maximum Acceleration", they were quoted as traveling at Warp 9.5
As I understand this, this would be the speed of light times 10 to the 9.5(th?) power.
When he ordered the saucer to be separated, (which as I understand only has impulse engines), why did the saucer not go flying backward at catastrophic negative acceleration as soon as it exited the warp bubble and returned to relativistic space?