At warp factor 5 it's only 27 days away!
The warp factor table at [1] makes absolutely no sense.
Enterprise (the show) warp 4.6: 90 light years in 4 days.
Voyager warp 4.7: 10 light years in 3 weeks.
Enterprise (the show) warp 5: 50 light years in 3 months.
> Although formulas to calculate a relative speed from a warp factor have existed in the writer's guides, these were rarely used for reference in the episodes and films.
They just winged it with the technobabble. They retconned it by explaining that it’s a relativistic measurement which take into account gravity wells and ship size. I.e. even warp factor 10 (infinite speed in Voyager) might not be enough to escape a black hole if it gets too close.
Edit: the ENT/VOY comparison makes no sense even with the retcon IMO, how is warp 4.6 in a mid-22nd century ship an order of magnitude faster than warp 4.7 in a 24th century ship?
Emissions. ;)
I mean there was a TNG episode where they limited warp to factor 5 because of space emissions destroying the space environment or something like that.
> Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual (p. 55) states the actual speed values of a warp factor are dependent upon interstellar conditions, for example gas density, electric and magnetic fields in different regions of the galaxy, and fluctuations of the subspace domain. Also quantum drag forces and motive power oscillation cause energy penalties to a ship using warp drive.
Depends on road conditions, very convenient for plot.
Also known as the scenarium trace mineral commonly found in space.