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Warp Speed FAQ.


Warp
Factor
Speed
(times lightspeed)
Distance
Travel
Time
Source
Comments
TOS Scale
TNG Scale
0.5
0.304 - 0.496 ~3.95 - 6.45 AU (Earth-Jupiter) 1.8 hrs
"The Motion Picture" [ST1]

0.125

0.5
0.411
8 AU
(passing Saturn)
2.7 hrs
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] from shooting script
0.125

1





1
1
2




Neptune class max warp
8
10
3
487
4 ly
3 days
"Damage" [ENT]

27
39
3
39
0.102 ly
23 hrs
"The Most Toys" [TNG]

27
39
4





64
102
4.4
100
30,000,000 km
1 sec
"Broken Bow" [ENT]



4.5
79.7 - 87.2 ~57.5 - 62.92 AU
(Earth-Neptune and back)
6 min.
"Broken Bow" [ENT]
91.125

5




NX-01 max speed
125
214
6
650
0.54 parsec
almost a day's travel "Clues" [TNG] NCC-1701 Cruising Speed
NCC-1701D Cruising Speed
216
392
7
~ 22,242,000 - 43,175,820 17,000-33,000 ly
(Nimbus-3 to Galaxy Center)
6.7 hrs
"Final Frontier" [ST5]

343
656
7.3

300 billion km
couple of min. "Emergence" [TNG]



8

16 ly
3 min.
"Star Trek" [ST2009]
NCC-1701 top speed
Nova class max speed
512
1024
9
834
~ 300 billion km
~ 20 min. "Bloodlines" [TNG]
the time given is roughly correct for warp 7 729
1516
9

>10 ly
51 hrs
"Dreadnought" [VOY]



9
700
70,000 ly
100 yrs
"The Price" [TNG]



9.2




NCC-1701D max rated
cruise speed

1649
9.6
9000
2.7 million ly
300+ yrs
"Where No One Has Gone Before" [TNG] NCC-1701D normal max operating velocity
1909
9.8




NCC-1701D extreme risk


9.9
21,473 ~ 4 billion miles
1 sec
"The 37's" [VOY]


3053
9.975
1,554 - 1,721 132 ly
1 mo.
"Relativity" [VOY]
"Friendship One" [VOY]
Voyager's maximum sustainable cruise velocity

~ 9.975
6667
2 billion km
1 sec
"Maneuvers" [VOY]



9.985




NCC-1701E max
sustainable cruise velocity


9.99






7912
9.9997

17 ly
45 min.
Tech Manual
(derived)
subspace radio speed

~ 198696
9.9999




max boosted
subspace radio speed

199,516
10
infinite
infinite
0
"Threshold" [VOY]

1000
infinite

~ 100,000
~ 1000 ly
(stellar group at the
other end of the galaxy)
> 2 days
"The Cage" [TOS],
"The Menagerie" [TOS]




~ 215,000
1/16 parsec
30 sec
"Bread and Circuses" [TOS]

60
9.9999
8.4
~ 765,000 ~ 990 ly 11.337 hrs
"That Which Survives" [TOS]




~ 10,000
900 ly
< 5 yrs
(mission length)
"The Squire of Gothos" [TOS]



2
~ 80,000
500 parsecs
(1,625 ly)

"Arena" [TOS]
trip back to Cestus-3
to pick up medical teams



2700
7000 ly
2 yrs 7 mo.
"Q Who?" [TNG]
max sustainable warp


2

1.3 parsecs

"Where Silence Has Lease" [TNG]




~ 100,000
(away from inhabited planets)
minutes before
self-destruct
"11001001" [TNG]




~ 1,826,000 - 2,740,000 ~ 20,000 - 30,000 ly
few days
"The Chase" [TNG]




1000
70,000 ly
70 yrs
"Caretaker" [VOY]




8766
2 ly
2 hrs
"Unimatrix Zero" [VOY]



>8
260,000
10,000 ly
2 weeks
"Equinox" [VOY]
an increase of 0.03%
over warp 8



13,000
3 ly
2 hrs
"Critical Care" [VOY]
Voyager top speed



3066
0.7 ly
2 hrs
"Inside Man" [VOY]
USS Carolina max warp



1600
264 ly
2 mo.
"Friendship One" [VOY] Voyager cruise speed



~ 1000
Earth to Qonos
4 days
"Broken Bow" [ENT]




> 1825
>15 ly
(Earth to Rigel)
3 days
"Broken Bow" [ENT]
"Marauders" [ENT]



3
46
0.25 ly
2 days
"Shuttlepod One" [ENT]



>3
63
0.25 ly
34-35 hrs
"Shuttlepod One" [ENT]



269
78 ly
106 days
"Civilization" [ENT]




259
100 ly
141 days
"Silent Enemy" [ENT]




630
5.2 ly
3 days
"Detained" [ENT]




~ 1500
30 ly

"Horizon" [ENT]
detour to investigate planet



Transwarp
Factor
Equivalent
Warp Factor
Speed
(times lightspeed)
Distance Travel
Time
Source Comments

9.6



"Threshold" [VOY]
Transwarp Threshold
>10




"Journey to Babel" [TOS]
Orion scout ship traveled
at higher than Warp 10
>10




"Let that be your Last Battlefield" [TOS]
Bele commandeered NCC-1701,  propeled it past Warp 10
>10




"Where No One Has Gone Before" [TNG]
traveler modifications to
NCC-1701D
11




"The Changeling" [TOS]
Nomad altered ship
11

8,300 2.5 million ly
(to Andromeda)
300 yrs "By Any Other Name"[TOS] Kelvins altered ship
12






13




"All Good Things" [TNG]

14






14.1




"That Which Survives" [TOS] ship sabotaged
15




"The Changeling" [TOS]
Nomad fired energy bolts
that traveled at Warp 15
22




"The Counter-Clock Incident" [TAS]
NCC-1701 linked to Karla-5's ship
by tractor beam
36




"The Counter-Clock Incident" [TAS] Karla-5's ship traveled at this speed



1/2 ly
~ 22 sec
"All Good Things" [TNG]
diabled Klingon ship
Borg conduit

~ 40,000


"Descent" [TNG]
20 x faster than maximum warp
Borg
transwarp

~ 100,000 - 1,500,000 ~ 9500 ly
(Borg space)
~ a few days to a mo.
"Scorpion" [VOY]

Borg conduit

~  200,000,000 65 ly
8-10 sec
"Descent" [TNG]

Borg transwarp Hub

~ 1,400,000,000 ~ 80,000 ly
(anywhere in galaxy)
~ 30 min.
(matter of minutes)
"Endgame" [VOY]



Warp Velocity
Equivalent Warp Speed
How Much
Faster
Source
Comments
34 min @
Warp 7
31 hours @
Warp  2
54.7 x
"Allegiance" [TNG]

Warp 4.8
double that of
Warp 3.9
2 x
"Regeneration" [ENT]

5 yrs @
Warp 3
6 mo. @
Warp 1.8
10 x
"Fortunate Son" [ENT]






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