Spock (Ethan Peck) said, "I would like the ship to go... now" after Lt. Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia) asks him what his catchphrase will be. While that particular phrase might be a bit too clunky to stick, here are 17 warp catchphrases that have been used by various starship Captains.
Spock's improvised warp command - "I would like the ship to go... now" - is a pretty funny approximation of what a Vulcan would find cool and authoritative, in keeping with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' portrayal of a younger, more awkward version of Spock.
Captain Janeway of Star Trek: Voyager said “Do it!” in a forceful way that almost commanded immediate compliance. Michael Burnham debuted her Starfleet captain catchphrase recently on Star Trek: Discovery, commanding, “Let's fly!”
The warp drive has a natural physical or economical limit beyond which higher speeds are no longer possible. The reference work Star Trek Fact Files indicates this limit at warp factor 9.99.
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Is warp 10 possible in Star Trek?
Warp factor 10 was set as an unattainable maximum of a theoretical infinite speed, at which an object would occupy all points in the universe simultaneously (according to the new scale, reaching or exceeding warp 10 required an infinite amount of energy).
Dilithium may be a fictional crystal from Star Trek, but in that world, it is composed of traditional baryonic matter (which is the stuff all the atoms and elements on the periodic table are made of) as well as complex subatomic particles which exist in subspace that allow the crystalline structure to form.
Warp factor 1 is the speed of light which is — depending on which kind of measurement you want to use — 299,792,458 meters per second or 186,000 miles per second. Crank it up to warp factor 2, and you're going the speed of light times ten.
Kirk uses "Take us out," but as will become apparent from this list, Kirk doesn't have one particular catchphrase. Kirk orders his crew to initiate Warp Drive in many different ways, often specific to the situation he and his crew are in.
Captain Kirk had some memorable catchphrases, like "Beam me up, Scotty!" when he wanted to return to the starship, and "I'm givin' her all she's got, Captain!" from Scotty, the chief engineer. He's also known for saying "KHAAAN!" during overly dramatic moments.
What is Captain Picard's catchphrase? Captain Jean-Luc Picard has a few catchphrases, but his most popular catchphrase is "Make it so." Others include "Engage" and "Tea. Earl Grey. Hot."
Nimoy stated that after "The Naked Time", in which a disease causes Spock to cry, "I knew that we were not playing a man with no emotions, but a man who had great pride, who had learned to control his emotions and who would deny that he knew what emotions were. In a way, he was more human than anyone else on the ship."
Spock quickly perishes, and, with his final breaths, says to Kirk, “Don't grieve, Admiral. It is logical. The needs of the many outweigh . . .” Kirk finishes for him, “The needs of the few.” Spock replies, “Or the one.”
Galef highlights Spock's weakness in understanding the illogical nature of human behavior and his failure to adapt his approach despite repeated mistakes. Spock's inability to learn from interactions with non-Vulcans exposes a fundamental blind spot in his logical framework.
The science fiction vision of stars flashing by as streaks when spaceships travel faster than light isn't what the scene would actually look like, a team of physics students says. Instead, the view out the windows of a vehicle traveling through hyperspace would be more like a centralized bright glow, calculations show.
In The TOS scale the warp factor cubed gives the actual speed compared to the speed of light. So Warp 3 is 3x3x3 or 27 times the speed of light. By the TNG era warp speed was a scale in which warp one was the speed of light and warp 10 was infinite speed. So warp 3 works out as being 39 times the speed of light.
According to the book Star Trek: Federation - The First 150 Years, dilithium was first discovered in an excavation site at Earth's south pole, apparently having come to Earth in a meteorite.
As far as we know, the laws of physics prevent us from travelling faster than the speed of light. This would make warp drive impossible without some major breakthroughs in science and engineering.
In Star Trek lore, Vulcan is the home of logic, learning and the deeply beloved first officer Mr. Spock. While Vulcan is fictional, the star system it belongs to–40 Eridani–is very real. It's located only 16.5 light-years away from Earth and its primary star can be spotted with the naked eye.
The Enterprise-D made first official contact with a number of species (see below). According to Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual (p. 55), the ship didn't actually achieve warp 10 or go beyond it, but it did travel at the speed of about warp 9.9999999996.
So, Voyager was hurled into the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker's array, getting stranded at 70000 lightyears from Earth. This was supposed to be a trip of approximately 70 years (Caretaker (1.1/1.2)) at standard warp (probably Warp 5 = 125 * lightspeed).
