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Quote from: nslay on May 15, 2009, 02:17:40 pmI can't imagine why you would want to time travel at all. Living in the present while contemplating the future is already quite a lot of effort and work.Because you're returning from a distant planet on a stolen starship and when you approach Earth, there's an alien probe flying above the ocean, emitting high pitched whalesong and trying to communicate with an extinct species of whales, whilst destroying earth. The only way to stop the probe is to return to Earth of the past, beam two whales aboard your stolen starship and return them to the present time.Kirk out.
I can't imagine why you would want to time travel at all. Living in the present while contemplating the future is already quite a lot of effort and work.
Quote from: Joe on June 01, 2009, 02:18:28 amQuote from: nslay on May 15, 2009, 02:17:40 pmI can't imagine why you would want to time travel at all. Living in the present while contemplating the future is already quite a lot of effort and work.Because you're returning from a distant planet on a stolen starship and when you approach Earth, there's an alien probe flying above the ocean, emitting high pitched whalesong and trying to communicate with an extinct species of whales, whilst destroying earth. The only way to stop the probe is to return to Earth of the past, beam two whales aboard your stolen starship and return them to the present time.Kirk out.You're assuming you have the ability to use the sun's gravitational pull to go fast enough that you end up back in time, somehow.
I'd personally do as Joe suggests
You might be right about that, Joe.
"Several episodes of the original series placed the Enterprise in peril by having it travel at high warp factors; at one point in "That Which Survives" the Enterprise traveled at a warp factor of 14.1."
In 24th century warp theory, a warp factor of 10 corresponds to an infinite velocity. Theoretically, a vessel traveling at warp 10 would occupy all points in the universe simultaneously. Warp 10 was the transwarp threshold, representing infinite velocity. (VOY: "Threshold")In theory, it was possible to travel backwards in time by surpassing warp 10. (TNG: "Time Squared")Although considered a theoretical impossibility at the time, Tom Paris of the USS Voyager reached the warp 10 threshold in 2372, using shuttlecraft Cochrane which was equipped with an extraordinarily rare form of dilithium discovered earlier that year. After it was discovered that such travel induces hyper-evolution, this technology was discontinued after the initial test. (VOY: "Threshold")Kathryn Janeway made the observation in 2376 that rumors travel fast on board Voyager. Chakotay agreed with Janeway, quipping at "warp 10." (VOY: "The Voyager Conspiracy")