![]() We might have to assume that transwarp either takes the ship "deeper into subspace" and thus makes it cease bothering the universe, or then "stretches out" the traveler so that the total mass of Tom Paris and his shuttle is distributed across the universe (perhaps with a slightly denser lump here, another there, but never enough of it anywhere to be observed let alone worried about). If transwarp remains the same, then being everywhere at once would mean displacing the entire universe! Every place would have what's usually there and Tom Paris, which would be pretty crowded. ![]() In ordinary warp drive, it appears that the ship doesn't exit the regular universe and completely move over to "subspace" or whatnot - it still interacts with objects in the regular universe, and has to dodge them to avoid collision etc. The bottom line being, transwarp Borg style is fast, but depends. The analogy would extend to all the steering problems our heroes had when using the slipstream tech on "virgin snow", as opposed to the ease of flying along the path of a Borg vessel in, say, "Dark Frontier". And "Dragon's Teeth" speaks of a network of "fast lanes" that is slowly decaying perhaps transwarp of the Borg style, with corridors, is fast in freshly formed ones but gets slower if the corridors are old? And in order to refresh a corridor, you need to hook it up to a hub, or carry a special coil aboard your ship otherwise, the best you can do is sneak in like Picard or the Hansens and hope the corridor doesn't decay on you when you are inside.Īlso, trailblazing an all-new corridor from A to B might be slow work even when you have a coil aboard, analogous to plowing a path through thick snow. Then again, VOY sort of suggests that transwarp can be faster when it's a big ship doing it, or when those hub things are boosting the going. It could be argued that the Borg in "Descent" were not a representative bunch, and that their weird ideas overall might translate to weird technologies that don't work quite as well as the regular Borg ones. So, what does everyone else think? Any ideas? I would, however, make an undedicated guess that it's at least as fast as the Borgs. When it comes to the Voth, I thought I remember reading somewhere that the Voth's transwarp drive doesn't utilize a conduit system. I don't remember hearing or reading how long it took Voyager to go 20,000 light year, but that's pretty far, in what I would assume a short amount of time. Now, Voyager eventually used a Borg's transwarp coil to get 20,000 light years closer to home before the coil burned out. When I started looking around for information on this, I found on Memory Alpha that when Voyager's crew did a test run with the Quatum Slipstream drive in the Dauntless, Arturis', species 116, ship in disguise, they traveled 15 light years in 5 minutes, about 1.6 million times the speed of light. So I got to thinking about these two forms of propulsions the other day and was wondering of the two, which is faster? I'm not sure if it's ever made clear which is faster, so I thought I'd pick the brains of my trek lovers here on the boards for information.
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