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Bookmark or Share- What does the "they've gone to plaid" joke mean?It's a play on the phrase, "They've gone to warp," from Star Trek, and the warp trail effect a ship causes when it goes to warp speed. The ship has hit ludicrous speed, so they chose a "ludicrous color" such as plaid to represent that.
- What happened to warp drives destroying the universe?The council further ordered Federation ships throughout the galaxy to restrict their maximum speed to warp 4.7. (TNG: Force of Nature). The Starship Enterprise-D and other ships observed the "warp speed limit" for the remainder of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
- spaceballs - Why did they go to plaid? - Science Fiction & Fantasy ...It's a play on the phrase, "They've gone to warp," from Star Trek, and the warp trail effect a ship causes when it goes to warp speed. The ship has hit ludicrous speed, so they chose a "ludicrous color" such as plaid to represent that. However, user @BrettFromLA provides an answer that, while not the accepted one, is also interesting:
- In Star Trek, how fast is warp 9.99?A problem with the warp chart is that warp 5 is shown to travel 214 times the speed of light, but that is incorrect according to Star trek enterprise. In Enterprise, the ship can only go at top speed of warp 5, meaning Enterprise could travel 214 light years in one year.
- Can ships be tracked and chased through hyperspace?Ludicrous Speed – Cody. Commented Jan 10, 2017 at 16:36. 1. In the canon novel Twilight Company, the ...
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