Notes: Your Fictional Science Moment
I very much enjoyed the recent laser-spaceship movie.

I don't know if this is a Star Trek spoiler, but don't read if you haven't seen the movie and are feeling cautious. Or tribbley. Or just rather salty ... .


Okay, so I used this scale: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Warptable.gif to make a quick calculation.

If the Enterprise was traveling at Warp 5, which is 1000 times the speed of light, for say, six hours (the time Kirk needed to wake up on the ice planet, get chased my monsters, find Old Spock, find Scotty, and start up the transporter), then Kirk and Scotty beamed at least 21.59 Light Years 43.29 Astronomical Units to the Enterprise. That's a little farther than orbit.

I'm going to go have sex with my calculator now and cry myself to sleep.

-Rikki

P.S. Star Trek Online game has more information on what Elder Spock tried to explain during his CSI flashback: http://www.startrekonline.com/node/235

P.P.S.: Was Romulus a binary system?

P.P.P.S.: Spock stood on the surface of Delta 5 and watched a black hole form (and then collapse?) less than an AU away. Did Spock's Genesis Device reincarnation in Star Trek III make him radiation proof? Aaron A. reminds me that Spock also has no salt in his body, according to the Salt Vampire episode of the original series.

P.P.P.P.S.: Is the new Enterprise different in design from the original series Enterprise because all of the engineers who would have designed the original series Enterprise were killed on the U.S.S. Kelvin?

P.P.P.P.P.S.: Can't ... turn ... off ... BRAIN! iiieeeee!!