BEND MOTOR

 The ability to manipulate space is the most important concept in relation to warp speed. If the Enterprise could bend the space-time continuum by expanding the area behind it and contracting the area in front, the crew could avoid reaching the speed of light. Because it creates its own gravitational field, the spacecraft could travel locally at very low speeds, thus avoiding the pitfalls of Newton's Third Law and keeping the clocks in sync with the launch and destination locations. The ship isn't really traveling at "speed" per se - it seems more like it's pulling its destination toward it while pushing back its starting point.

As the ideas behind Einstein's General Theory of Relativity are complex and still open to interpretation, this leaves the possibilities largely open to science fiction writers. We may not know how to distort time and space with our current technology, but a fictional civilization of the future may be quite capable of inventing a device with the right imagination.

In the Star Trek universe, warp speed is in line with the use of warp space. Warp space is triggered by antimatter reactions to matter, which are regulated by a substance called dilithium. This reaction creates a highly energetic plasma, known as electroplasm, a type of matter with its own magnetic field, which reacts with the spacecraft's warp coils. These coils are typically placed in what Star Trek authors call a warp nacelle. The entire package creates a "warp field" or "warp bubble" around the Enterprise, allowing the ship and its crew to remain safe while space acts. Sometimes, between the first television series (Star Trek: The Original Series) and Star Trek: The Next Generation, the writers decided to set a limit on the speed of warp space - using a scale from Bend-1 to Bend-10, the Enterprise could not travel anywhere at any time, as that would make the plot too easy. In the program, Warp-19 became an impossible top speed, an infinity in which the spacecraft would be everywhere in the universe at once. The 9.6-Bend, according to the TNG technical manual, is the highest allowable achievable speed - it is set at 1909 times the speed of light.

As science fiction progresses, Star Trek is highly regarded by its fans for keeping the physics relatively plausible. Although no one will propose a spacecraft that travels at warp speed, no one denies the possibility of this fact. Star Trek also focused on other big concepts throughout the series, including the notion of time travel through black holes or wormholes. The writers also had to correct several details, such as the fact that there is no sound in space. While George Lucas features laser bursts and bursts of laser in the Star Wars series to keep the dramatic tone, Star Trek is a little closer to reality by not including any space sound effects. Mostra meno