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Mark wrote:Dude, logorithim sounds like a dance move to me.

Logarithmic scales are the inverse of orders of magnitude. For example, 10^log2 = 2, 10^log3 = 3, etc.

Your not helping

:::scratching head:::

log has something to do with lumber, right?

The Log of 8760 is 3.94250410617.

So the formula just works out to Speed = Warp factor ^ 3.94250410617.

On that scale :

Warp 1 = 1 xc
Warp 2 = 15.37 xc
Warp 3 = 76.04 xc
Warp 4 = 236.39 xc
Warp 5 = 569.76 xc
Warp 6 = 1,169.13 xc
Warp 7 = 2,146.85 xc
Warp 8 = 3,634.43 xc
Warp 9 = 5,782.36 xc
Warp 10 = 8,760.00 xc
Warp 11 = 12,755.43 xc
Warp 12 = 17,975.31 xc
Warp 13 = 24,644.85 xc

Ok, now these numbers I can understand Thanks for translating GK !

that works too.

and yes they will be faster, through regular speeds and i believe the first two levels of transwarp on the TNG Scale after that it's slower.

So, Staplic........your speeds are based on the theory that Starfleet finally managed to come up with a working transwarp drive, or a simple recalculation?

simple recalc on my part.

I wanted a warp scale that was much faster so if you look at it:
At warp 10 your 8760xc
that puts you at 2.628e12 m/s
or 9.4608e15 m/hour
a Light Year is 9.4608e15 m

So at Warp 10 your traveling at 1 Light Year every hour.

Convienient for plot purposes. Wonder why Trek never came up with that?

idk, there not a smart as me, they couldn't use log's either.

I am
and I am pround

The new warp scale is one thing I really disliked about TNG. I would have given the E-D a cruise speed of warp 12 and a top speed of warp 14, plain and simple. None of this 9.9... 9.99 crap.

I also would have called it transwarp drive.

I vaguely recall reading once that Gene didn't like how often TOS generated tension by having the Enterprise go at some super-high warp factor. I get that, certainly that one where the E-nil went at Warp 14.1 was silly, but the TNG scale is a pain in the ass.

The TNG scale only get silly now we have hit really fast speeds. I would find it equally stupid to hear someone go at warp 47.

Stupider than warp 42?

From an OOU, TV-production standpoint, the TNG scale falls down as well. Hearing a starship captain barking out an heroic, hip-shooting order in an attempt to save the known universe, only to have the dialogue bogged down because he has to call out a factor to the third decimal place, is really anticlimactic.