Re: TNG: Peak Performance
Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2021 4:59 am
Measure of distance. If you are traveling at 100 times the speed of light, you will be there in a year. 1,000 times the speed of light you will be there in over a month. Which is just under Warp 8.TGLS wrote: ↑Sun Jun 27, 2021 4:54 amI'm still a bit fuzzy as to what 100 light years means exactly... Anyway, my memory of the situation played out like this:McAvoy wrote: ↑Sun Jun 27, 2021 3:06 amNot really. 16th century California or just the whole West Coast was very very sparsely populated. Like it was actually brand new to European explorers in the 16th century.
Whereas, he know that probably within 100 light years of the wormhole, there were civilizations who knew what the Dominion were or did active dealings with them. The Founder homeworld wouldn't be that far either. Unless you think those missions on runabouts or the Defiant lasted weeks or months. I know, I know, the power of the plot decides the speeds of the ships in episodes.
So yeah I think the Alpha and Beta Quadrants were trespassing on Dominion territory. The way the Dominion responded though was unacceptable.
-> Federation/Bajorans begins exploring/settling the area on the other side of the wormhole.
-> Alpha-beta quadrant hears rumors of the Dominion
-> The Dominion kidnaps a bunch of people and asserts their claims on everything in the Gamma quadrant.
Now, by my estimate, this maps roughly to how a completely foreign power would receive Spain's claims on the Pacific Ocean and all it's shores. If they're asserting that they can tell anyone to leave the Gamma Quadrant by virtue of owning the entire quadrant, then they also ought to be able to get their tributaries/vassals/etc. to tell the foreigners to piss off.
Anyway, Warp speeds has always been powered by plot. But if we are talking about time frames here. No way to think trips in runabouts or the Defiant took weeks or months. So all of the episodes unless specifically stated was short term. Which means the Founders Homeworld isn't that far from the wormhole.
Where as California in the 16th century was barely and I do mean barely explored. By anyone!
To compare your analogy, California in the 16th century would be an area of space devoid of intelligent lifeforms with the exception of a alien space station. Not claimed by anyone, but full of habitable worlds.
Whereas in DS9, it would be like Japan trying to colonize California and claim it as its own during the 1930's but without knowing who the United States was.