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 |
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0.5 |
0.411 |
8 AU (passing Saturn) |
2.7 hrs |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] | from
shooting script |
0.125 |
|
1 |
1 |
1 |
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2 |
Neptune
class max warp |
8 |
10 |
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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 |
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4.4 |
100 |
30,000,000
km |
1 sec |
"Broken
Bow" [ENT] |
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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] |
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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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