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Originally Posted by **********
Actually they kind of fucked it up.
"Warp" is the ability to travel faster than light but without going back in time.
What they had to do in Trek 4 was go back in time. The movie text basically had them zooming towards the sun using its gravity to pull them past the speed of light without going into warp, thereby sending them back in time. However the dialog is kind of fucked up as they ignored even their own rules, basic science, and even some star trek science. Doesn't really matter though, it was still a fun movie.
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That's right - Warp was actually a way of bending space/time without pushing past light speed - which in theory would take you back in time, force you to confront space/time conflicts, etc...
Warp was actually a measured pop-in/pop-out point that allowed them to retain real space time as an envelope around the ship without losing hundreds or thousands of years in time back on earth or in "real time".
But it still makes sense with Trek 4 since they "used" real light-speed to go back without resorting to warp.
Still, Warp 8 was max in the old show. And they had a higher "cruising" warp speed after the Excelsior or after the next gen show or something... I'm a little fuzzy after or because of the whole weird Crusher/Riker fuzzibiliousness...
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