LAST EDITED ON Oct-13-01 AT 04:32 PM (EDT)

>Presumably the 'Will-Be-Was' drive won't show up in UF,
since Truss has standing orders to disintegrate me if I ever adopt anything from L. Ron Hubbard; that would imply that I had read one of his books.

It's a funny coincidence that this should come up now, though. I just dug out my old hybrid copy of "The Cage" (the original unaired Star Trek pilot) last night and re-watched it, and at one point Jeffrey "Captain Wooden" Hunter announces, "Our time warp factor: 7."

Now, chances are all that really implies is that Gene Roddenberry wasn't very good at making up pseudoscientific jargon in 1964, but it amuses me that, if you put that factor aside, what it seems to be implying is that the Enterprise uses a drive system similar to the aforementioned time thingy.

During the actual series, as far as I know, the term never reappeared, and the arbitrary speed units were just called "warp factors", which has since been retroactively explained as a measure of space warpage. Which is good, because it makes for a lot fewer obnoxious complications. :)

--G.
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