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Warp scale

How far does a warp factor really get you? Pick somewhere, from the Moon to Andromeda, and race there.

The ladder

Every stop from the Moon to Andromeda. Tap one to race there.

How the scale works

Warp 1 is the speed of light, exactly. Above that, Star Trek’s scale since The Next Generation climbs as the warp factor to the power of ten thirds, so warp 5 is about 214 times light and warp 9 about 1,516 times. Past warp 9 it gets steeper and steeper, and warp 10 can never be reached: it would mean being everywhere at once.

The speeds above warp 9 come from the figures in the Next Generation technical manual, the same ones the bridge uses, with warp 9.975 in between them at about 6,750 times light.

The Solar System’s distances are for today: the planets and Voyager 1 move, so the Sun is nearer in January and Mars is anywhere from 3 to 22 light-minutes away. Stars are at the distances in the catalogue the bridge flies by.