>Edit: the ENT/VOY comparison makes no sense even with the retcon IMO, how is warp 4.6 in a mid-22nd century ship an order of magnitude faster than warp 4.7 in

>Edit: the ENT/VOY comparison makes no sense even with the retcon IMO, how is warp 4.6 in a mid-22nd century ship an order of magnitude faster than warp 4.7 in a 24th century ship? Emissions. ;) I mean there was a TNG episode where they limited warp to factor 5 because of space emissions destroying the space environment or something like that.