Why didn't they just go warp 10 all the time?

They can't go warp 10.

>>82977948
Why didn't they just go warp 9 all the time?

>>82978017
This is explained in the episode 'Force of Nature'

>>82978040
And what is the explanation?

>>82978112
That they're powered by the Force of Nature and can't choose their own speed, because they can't control the Force that's behind them

>>82978694
What the fuck that sounds like star wars shit. it's just space wind?

>>82978727
It's to do with their relative position from the Warl Singularity (near the Klingon home planet), can't remember the exact details but there's something in the "engine" that gets pulled towards it

Why don't you drive your car at 160mph all the time?

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>>82977849

Space global warming

Remember that episode about Space Global Warming where they had to keep it under warp 6 afterward or some gay ass shit but then they broke the rule all the time and always had to include a dumb throwaway line like "The Federation has authorized to exceed warp speed limitations" or some shit?

That was fucking lame.

>>82978875
Wait so are there space cops hiding behind asteroids with speed guns

>>82978956
They fixed that. Voyager's nacelles move up precisely to be able to move at any warp speed without causing environmental damage. Because somehow putting your nacelles in a diagonal solves the problem

>>82978017
They can't go warp 9

>>82977849

How come time never slowed down when they warped?

Wouldn't they go back to Earth and find all their family dead and the planet being run by apes?

>>82979098
No, because time in subspace is relative to your speed

>>82978965
No, but there are planets and shit you need to avoid

I think it was vaguely explained one time that faster travel increases disorientation or some shit so its a comfort thing

>>82979206
TNG were explorers

Racing past everything without investigating wasn't the point

Why don't they just replicate data in the replicator?

Why didn't they ever use the teleporters to beam their ship out of harms way?

>>82979280

To where? You need a teleporter to teleport.

>>82979158
Isn't one of them a robot, he can probably react quick enough

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>it's a "we can't beam them out, there's too much interference" episode

>>82979313

I bet you Chief O'Brien could have worked out how to do it

>>82978017

higher warp speeds were a strain on the engines and less fuel efficient

>>82979568
He was a tactical officer during the war with Cardassia

He was a helm officer on TNG's first episode

He was the transporter chief after that

He was a chief engineer on DS9

His career is the opposite of literally everyone else ever

>>82979423
>that episode in TOS that could have been avoided if they just used a shuttle to pick people up

>>82979616

And he said "I bet they fookin love you now" to Gary Busey in Under Siege

>>82979616
>easily one of the most important people in the federation at one point
>outranked by Nog

Climate change.