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

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

They can't go warp 10.

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

This is explained in the episode 'Force of Nature'

And what is the explanation?

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

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

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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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.

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

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

They can't go warp 9

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?

No, because time in subspace is relative to your speed

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

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?

To where? You need a teleporter to teleport.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Climate change.