Posted by Lieutenant Miriam Cross (Chief Medical Officer) in Main Sim - Lecture Hall 2B - Tiastri’s lecture on Beyond Warp 9 - TAG Melissa

Posted by Lieutenant Tiastri Ezial (Chief Engineer) in Main Sim - Lecture Hall 2B - Tiastri’s lecture on Beyond Warp 9 - TAG Melissa

Posted by Captain John Tiberius Glen (Captain) in Main Sim - Lecture Hall 2B - Tiastri’s lecture on Beyond Warp 9 - TAG Melissa
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It was three hours after Williams lecture and the 2b hall called for Tiastri to report to the lecture hall to prepare.

This was another lecture that Glen thought might educate him on science he didn’t completely understand. He knew that “beyond warp 9” was possible, because they had been to the Andromeda galaxy and back. He also knew that it was impossible. It was also classified that they had done that. He couldn’t quite get his head around it all.

Tia walked in shortly after getting the call that the hall was clear and ready for preparations. Her normally wild fire-like tresses were pulled back in a sloppy, but secure knot, at the crown of her head. She was in her cleanest uniform, meaning the one she saved for special occasions, and she was humming as the back of the conference hall opened to admit her. She saw the Captain as she strolled in and smiled. “Sir… I didn’t expect anyone to be here already. I thought I had time to prepare.” She moved down to the console at the side of the stage and pulled a small case of data sticks out of her pocket to set on the table. “Are you here to learn or to evaluate?” She laughed as she asked, hoping he wouldn’t think her rude for asking.

“Oh! To learn, definitely,” replied Glen. “We are all here to learn and be entertained. You’ll not hear any criticism. I order it, so!”

Cross had been sitting next to Glen but apparently the Lt had not seen her. The doctor nudged the Captain ‘’I think she fancies you’’ Cross whispered ‘’Imagine going with her on a warp yet to be invented by Star-Fleet!’‘.

“No, she most certainly has eyes on the XO,” replied Glen. “I thought you were more astute than that and would have noticed.”

‘’Really!’’ Cross exclaimed ‘’Well that’s a better choice having the Cmdr then you’’ the doctor seldom minced her words ‘’Just one kiss from him is something a woman would never ever forget’’ she declared from her own experience…which was nothing but an innocent kiss on her lips from Kord after they made it back to the ship alive.

Then the doctor thought that the Captain would most probably send her as far away from him as he possible could....but she kept that thought to herself and tried her best to focus on the lecture instead.

• Glen, CO

Tia smiled at the others smattered around the room. It wasn’t full, but there were certainly more faces than she had expected. The discussion was mostly boring, so it impressed her there were more there than just three, to be honest. She saw the Captain only because he had been in her line of sight. The rest of the room, including the doctor and probably anyone else from the ship she served on, were mostly a blur. Probably just as well she hadn’t heard the doctor, being embarrassed wasn’t on her syllabus.

After several moments, the small chrono on the console gave a small blip of light only Tia saw. Smiling, she stepped up beside the table and glanced out at her scattered audience. “Warp speed… simple concept, right? I mean, we travel it all the time. Warp six to the nearest Star Base… warp 8 to escape an attack. Perhaps we have even traveled as fast as warp 9.9 in a dire situation where getting TO someplace, or AWAY FROM IT, were a matter of life and death, itself. But can we ‘actually’ go faster?” She tapped the console and the lights dimmed as the main display at the front of the lecture hall lit up with a basic chart (1). “Here we see the basic table almost every child learns in primary school, and nearly everyone here learned more intimately in higher learning including the Academy. We see the differences in warp are similar to the differences measured in old school descriptions of hurricanes. A category two hurricane wasn’t twice the size of a category one. It was ten times bigger. As with warp, warp two isn’t twice the speed of warp one. It’s an exponential growth, not a simply ‘times itself’ measurement.” She let the words sink a moment before continuing. “To begin with, we will discuss what warp 9 truly means as far as speed is concerned. Then I will attempt to answer the question that’s haunted engineer and science minds since the Vulcan’s first made themselves known to Cochran… Can we go faster?”

She paused one more moment then talked for about 15 minutes about how each subsequent increment of warp was not a single digit jump in speed but a folding of numbers and an exponential speed that grew as each level of warp was attained. She paused several times in order to accept questions.

(1) https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Warp_factor
Tia
((Feel free to chime in with questions. I will answer them as I see them… and will post more ‘lecture’ in between as it goes…Meli))

Cross’s hand went up and when she saw that Tia had her full attention she asked ‘’Lt Tia with that increase in warp drive would there not be any issues biological ,
psychological harm to crew members or anything organic that is concerning life aboard the ship?’‘.

Cross Dr.

Tia nodded and listened to the question. “Lots of folks over the decades and centuries since light and warp drive have asked that. As far as we have been able to determine, there is no long term affects from repeated and extended warp drive exposure. The few times that there have been accidents or that have been documented cases of deaths were in relation to the collapse and failure of the warp fields and protective barriers during high speed travel.” She slowly paced the stage as she spoke.

“While there are still no tried and true, hard and fast, definite proof, it’s believed that space is bent around a ship at warp speed rather than the ship actually moving thru space on its own. In several tests, ships were placed side by side and one would transfer to warp. There was no way to tell if the stationary ship was ‘pushed’ away, or the moving ship ‘moved’ away. So in answer to your question…” she smiled, “We have no idea. All anyone can say at this point is that it is not ‘unsafe’ if all parameters of safety and drive are working.”

She tapped her console and the next photos (2) to come up were accompanied with a discussion of the various thoughts of how warp fields were created. While there was an inclusion of what was taught at the Academy level, she kept it equal to the other views that were created and thought of during the evolution of faster than light speed.

Tia
CE

(2) https://phys.org/news/2012-03-warp-killer-downside.html (using the pic of the warp field in the article, not necessarily the article itself.