This episode features the Voth, a species descended from Earth's dinosaurs. The second Voyager version of transwarp was that seen in the episode 'Distant Origin'. To be honest it reminds me of the claims for what would happen to the human body if one travelled faster than a horse, or flew at the speed of sound. Again the fact that whoever took the jolly would turn into a slug at the end of it we will discard, at least for the time being. The first being the all ready hinted 'Threshold' episode, where it was blatently stated that at Warp 10, the ship would be present etc. Voyager on the otherhand offered us a lot of alternatives:. The important thing here is that they achieved this without special modifications in anyway what so ever to the ship. At that speed they could set off at breakfast, fly to the Caretakers abode, rescue Voyager and still get home in time for a late tea the same day. In the episode Descent Enterprise entered a Borg conduit and travelled some 65 light years in less than ten seconds. TNG introduced us to Borg Transwarp Conduits, almost fixed corridors down which a ship could fly at many times normal warp speed. Since, of course, we have had TNG and worse Voyager to introduce us to the theories and practical details of Transwarp. They knew it existed and was probably faster than Warp 10! The fact they would have achieved visitation to every point of the Galaxy, by virtue of blowing up when the drive was engaged, is probably irrelevant at this point. Starfleet's involvement with Transwarp first came to light in 'The Search for Spock', where Excelsior, Starfleet's newest and most powerful ship, was instructed to aprehend Enterprise. Whatever figure one uses, from 70 years A to B, to instant visitation to every point in the Galaxy, is still a major jump, even on the wildly erratic logarithmic warp scale. Given that it was going to take 70 years to travel the 70,000 light years at her maximum warp of 9.975 we get 365c (actually Warp 5 on the TNG scale). Whilst Voyager herself could maintain speeds within a few decimals of that magical figure anyhow. Of course, they then damned their own statements by proceeding to travel faster than Warp 10. To add to that, in at least one episode each of both TNG and Voyager it was claimed that Warp 10 was infinitely fast- Effectively meaning, like Douglas Adams' Infinite Improbability and even faster Bistro Drives, your ship would instaneously pass through every point in the Galaxy. Starfleet tried it, the Borg have it, the Caretaker (among others) didn't need it and, presumably, the Galaxy is the playground at the end of the street for Q. Often inferred to, as being faster than 'Warp 10'.

It is faster than any speed anybody in Trek has travelled under their own power.

Or: What has Warp 10 got to do with anything?

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