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Even by Star Trek standards, the latest Strange New Worlds has an impressively poor concept of scale: we are trying an experimental long-range transport to another ship 30,000 km away. The nearest ship is two days away. Making the top speed of a Federation starship around 625km/hour, or a bit slower than the speed of a commercial jet.
@david_chisnall now was that in human distance or puppet distance?
Scotty knew what would happen and converted to puppet kilometers without a thought. Lol
@david_chisnall to be fair though, the bit where Pike and the admiral discuss the fact that the nearest ship is 2 days away was all part of a dream and so it doesn't have to make sense with the non-dream bits. The fact that that's a lazy trope is a different problem.
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it way just a context to get the muppets on. however, a story like that would have better suited lower decks.
@david_chisnall are they taking directions from google maps?
TVTropes: Writers can't do math. 🤣
"Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale"
And they really, really don't. It pops the bubble for me, Star Trek is one of the worst for it.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale
Original Star Trek was notorious for the ‘The Enterprise is the only star ship in range of this thing, even though the thing is near the heart of the Federation’ trope. And the ‘we are exploring months of travel beyond the border of the Federation but we popped home for lunch’ trope.
@david_chisnall @Perrin42 Star Trek 6 (the unmentionable one), they fly to the centre of the Galaxy and back like everyone does it, and then it's never mentioned again in universe. The inconsistency makes the burden of disbelief harder.
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