Talk:Warp 10

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I was just "testing the waters" with this. Similar to the Wikipedia pages on orders of magnitude (like 1 E-1 s), I think nicely written pages on individual warp factors (within the arbitrary whole number system) could make for get articles (only 14 pages in canon I believe). Unlike other orders of magnitude, Warp factors are tied heavily into Trek, and we know very much about their development (the breaking of the Warp 1/2/3/5/"10" barriers by Humans and the like). Only "notable" uses should be counted, not a minor cruising speed used to get somewhere in a specific episode or assumed speeds (like the never mentioned Warp 12 or Warps 15-29 that had to have been surpassed at times).--Tim Thomason 01:18, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure we'd really need all these articles. Before this article was recreated, I merged the old content to Warp factor (section Warp 10...), which this article pretty much duplicates at the moment. We know that Warp 5 was considered a big achievement at the time, but even there, we don't really know why and what the achievement really was. We know even less about other warp factors, I think. Because of the (production-wise) very arbitrary nature of Warp factors, I think it is much more useful to have a central table listing the few known Warp factor/speed relations than to have 14 separate articles. -- Cid Highwind 10:45, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Suggest Merge

Either this page should be merged with Warp factor#Warp 10..., or we should create separate pages for all different warp factors ever mentioned. --Pseudohuman 23:59, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Support merge – Morder 23:39, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

On the other hand it would be intresting to have specific warp factor pages where relative facts that don't translate to multiples of c are stated about them, such as how much faster warp 3 is relative to 1.8, and collecting a listing of what ships have that specific warp factor as their maximum warp etc. as Tim Thomason suggested above, when the speed was first achieved by which species. Things that we don't cover in the Warp factor-article because it would too much clutter up the page. Not to get insane about it a single article would cover references from warp 1 to 1.999... and so on. If you want to compare facts like this regarding ships now, you needs to read through a lot of articles. It would give you a good place to quickly check out the "which ship is faster" type of questions =) --Pseudohuman 03:57, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

I support a merge with the page mentioned and donÄt think we should have a page for every warp factor. When searching fo a term like this I would search on the warp factor page.