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Edit      Not to throw a spanner in the works, but in the
episode "The Expanse", Archer said that Enterprise had travelled
for seven weeks at Warp 5 (I hope I'm not mistaken) to reach the
Expanse. If we go along with the cubed warp scale then they had
only travelled (5^3)*(7/52) light-years, which is about 17
light-years. But I thought the Expanse was 50 light-years from
Earth? They would have to have travelled at warp 7.2 for seven
weeks. What then, an elusive 'warp highway'? A wormhole? A
miscalculation? Wrong warp scale?      Your information is
accurate, although the two facts are not contradictory. In a log
entry, Archer says that Enterprise has travelled for seven weeks
at Warp 5. However, the starship could have been traveling at
much slower speeds before going to Warp 5, seven hours before
the log entry is made. --Defiant | Talk 20:21, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I know this is a very