Physicists Say a Faster-Than-Light Spaceship Would Actually Look a Lot Like Star Trek’s Enterprise

Physicists discovered that the famous ‘Star Trek’ spaceship got a lot right about designing a ship to jump from galaxy to ...
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59 Years Later, Star Trek Just Proved It Still Needs Its Oldest Sci-Fi Plot Device

After almost six decades and hundreds of years of future history, the fastest way to travel in the final frontier is still by firing up your faithful warp drive. Star Trek’s famous faster-than-light ...
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Star Trek just became more like Star Wars in one major way

In most Star Trek episodes and movies, the title of the franchise tells you that one thing is pretty easy to do in the future: Space Travel. Since 1966, Trek's future worldbuilding has always made one ...
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Warp speeds in 'Star Trek' are achingly slow, and a simple animation by a former NASA scientist proves it

In the sci-fi universe of "Star Trek," spaceships with warp drives can zoom past the normally impenetrable limit of light speed, or about 186,282 miles per second (299,792 kilometers per second) in a ...