We have no meaningful understanding of how FTL works. It is presented to us as an active process, something that must be maintained, unlike normal space velocity.
No, if warp speed has to be maintained, then when it stops being maintained, you stop moving at warp. This is very well outlined in the show. It doesn’t work with our understanding of, well, anything, but that’s covered under “we have no meaningful understanding of FTL.”
You’re trying to impose real world physics on something that has no real world analogue.
We have no meaningful understanding of how FTL works. It is presented to us as an active process, something that must be maintained, unlike normal space velocity.
But, again, no meaningful understanding.
Either way, you need power.
If warp speed respects inertia, you need power to stop.
If it’s an active process, you need power to keep going.
I like the system the writer came up with in ‘The Forever War.’ Einstein rules until you get to specific stars with ‘wormholes’
No, if warp speed has to be maintained, then when it stops being maintained, you stop moving at warp. This is very well outlined in the show. It doesn’t work with our understanding of, well, anything, but that’s covered under “we have no meaningful understanding of FTL.”
You’re trying to impose real world physics on something that has no real world analogue.