(C) 2012 D. S. DURFEESQCOMIC.COM Strange Quark (c) 2012 Dallin S. Durfee sqcomic.com IN STAR TREK TOS THEY DEFINED WARP SPEED USING A POWER LAW RATHER THAN A LOGARITHMIC SCALE. ENSIGN MANDI, INCREASE WARP POWER BY 3 DECIBELS! BY THE TIME TNG CAME AROUND, THEY REALIZED THE LIMITATIONS OF THEIR SCALE. ARE WE THERE YET? WE'LL GET THERE WHEN WE GET THERE, NUMBER ONE. BUT, INSTEAD OF STARTING OVER AND DOING IT RIGHT, THEY ADDED A KLUDGE ONLY BETWEEN WARP 9 AND 10. THIS MAKES IT NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO SOLVE INTEGRALS USING WARP UNITS. THIS KIND OF STUBBORNNESS IS WHY THE FEDERATION OF PLANETS NEVER ADOPTED THE METRIC SYSTEM. OUR SPEED IS 400 LEAGUES PER JIFFY. WHAT IS THAT IN RODS PER PARSEC? PER PARSEC, NUMBER HAN? The Next Denigration keywords: Star Trek Star Trek TOS Star Trek TNG Warp Warp Drive Mandi Paul Ingenio Jimmy Maxwell Integration Metric System Number One Han Solo Parsec Leagues Rods Jiffies Logarithmic Scales Decibels Kludges Integration