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From: jimc@haddock.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Enterprise vs. Galactica
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Date: Sat, 18-May-85 10:59:00 EDT
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/* Written 12:49 pm  May 16, 1985 by ron@wjvax in haddock:net.startrek */
> Speaking of which, I wonder if [the Einsteinan time dilation] effect
> has ever been mentioned in the ST universe?
> 
> 	Ron Christian  (Watkins-Johnson Co.  San Jose, Calif.)
> 	{pesnta,twg,ios,qubix,turtlevax,tymix,vecpyr,certes}!wjvax!ron
> 	"What do you mean you backed it up the wrong direction???"
/* End of text from haddock:net.startrek */

	In a vague sort of way, yes.  In "The Cage"/"The Menagerie",
	Captain Christopher Pike referred to the warp drive as
	a "time warp."  Later in that same episode, one of the 
	crewmembers told one of the human survivors on Talos IV
	that the "time barrier had been broken."  From what I can
	gather of this, the inhabitants of the Star Trek universe
	had found a way to bypass the time dilation problem
	when travelling at or near light speeds.  Certainly
	much of the limits imposed by the Einsteinian universe
	would had to have been overcome, so that the ship could
	exceed the speed of light.

				Jim Campbell
				..!{bbncca, harvard}!ima!haddock!jimc