Screen), Earth’s first Warp Drive was invented by Zefram Cochrane and hisĪssociate Lily Sloane in the mid twenty-first century. Something closely enough akin to it that no distinction has ever been made on Universe, such as the Vulcans, had previously possessed the Warp Drive (or The Facts As We Know Them From the Episodes and MoviesĪlthough other spacefaring peoples of the Star Trek And remember that, "Dammit, Jim, I'm an historian, not a mathematician!" Take it for what it is - one fan's interpretation. My comment on that post led to a very helpful exchange with the author (at least, helpful to me) and inspired me to pull this back out, polish it a bit, and go ahead and post it. In the process of writing the "History of the Twenty-First Century," this kind of went on the back burner until I came upon an article on the blog Occasional Enthusiast entitled "Alternative Star Trek Warp Speed Scale and Related Equations" (2016) which takes a very different approach but has some really cool ideas. It varies considerably from a lot of fan-created Treknological assumptions through the years as well as semi-official resources published and statements made along the way, even by producers and technical advisers to the various series and films. Basically, I wanted to work out an overall rationalization of the development of the Warp Drive that best fits what has been shown on screen and explains certain oddities that manifested themselves along the way. This is another of my "Covid-Projects," consequent to my "Star Trek History of the Twenty-First Century" project (which is drafted but still needs a lot of work).
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