[jla1987]

Originally Posted by Captain Tom Coughlin

I think the point of their relationship was to further reinforce for new viewers the dual nature of Spock. It was a contrast to the cold Vulcan way in which he reacts to Kirk.

I understand that and I don't dislike Spock having a girlfriend. I just would have preferred someone other than Uhura.

[Captain Tom Coughlin]

I was alright with it, a little shocked, but alright.

[starwarsrcks]

well it is too bad for the people that didn't like the JJ Abrams film a sequel will be on it's way and I am looking forward to it in my opinion off course

[starwarsrcks]

Spock's Brain I watched tonight what a weird episode

[Tiberius1964]

Originally Posted by Futureguy

Possibly by then warp had been refined to the point that it was ok in "most" circumstances. Probably could compare it to the progression of transporter capabilities. Use of the transporter on biological forms was not perfected until some time after it was approved for use on inert materials such as supplies and equipment.

Enterprise had plain old fashioned warp drive. Excelsior had "trans-warp drive". It would make sense that by the time of TNG, all starships have "trans-warp drive", to save time people were dropping the "Trans".

So it's possible that Excelsior could warp out from planetary orbit with precision, while Enterprise could not.

Of course, this would violate the canon of TOS which has several episodes ending with
Kirk: Take us out of orbit. Ahead, warp factor one.

If the Star Trek Technical manual is authoritative, and warp speed is warp factor cubed times the speed of light, then warp one is the speed of light. At that speed, it takes 8 minutes to travel the distance from the sun to the earth. At warp 4 (64c), it takes a bit less than 8 seconds.

Even middling warp speeds inside a planetary system could be dangerous if you're manually controlling your ship's course, and/or if you don't know where everything is going to be when you get there.