It takes, or rather would have taken, Voyager 70 years to reach home. how then does Enterprise-A reach the center of the Galaxy in a matter of hours
- Yeah... Paramount usually sweeps that movie under the rug. Just pretend it never happened. --Vedek Dukat Talk | Duty Roster 03:11, 30 Nov 2005 (UTC)
- But as far as I know, ST5 is Canon for MA. --TOSrules 03:27, 30 Nov 2005 (UTC)
- Then I guess we could always come up with some sort of explanation involving the damage the warp engines did to subspace in that one TNG episode, and thus the time it takes to get across the galaxy increased a hundred fold. --Vedek Dukat Talk | Duty Roster 03:55, 30 Nov 2005 (UTC)
- But as far as I know, ST5 is Canon for MA. --TOSrules 03:27, 30 Nov 2005 (UTC)
- Unfortunately for us all, yes Star Trek 5 is considered canon, like lots of other badly written projects. It is inexplicable with canon material just how the Enterprise crossed such a great distance and through the barrier in such a short time.
- Although there are speculative explanaitions (maybe "God" supplied Sybok with directions to, or manufactured, a space-time shortcut like a wormhole), there's nothing concrete to confirm or disconfirm those theories. Although Roddenberry was loathe to admit it himself, he said he considered "some" of the movie apocryphal, he didn't write off the whole film. And, I can understand that line of reasoning. There are plot elements which are pretty good and explain background information about the characters (like McCoy's painful decision to euthanize his father). With some further editing, it could have been fixed up a little bit. But, Paramount decided otherwise and that's what we're left with.--Mike Nobody 05:43, 30 Nov 2005 (UTC)
- Even if "God" gave Sybok information to get to the Great Barrier faster, it wouldn't explain how the Bird of Prey gets there too. If it was a wormhole they could of followed them through. Of course, since the wormhole theory isn't mentioned on screen we can't be sure. -- <anon>
- There is reference to phenomena other than wormholes that can move things faster than their normal speeds through space. The original encounter with the barrier outside the galaxy by the Valiant was the result of being swept along by a magnetic storm. It is possible a vastly powerful being like the "god" in this could locate eddies and currents in spacetime that most science couldn't yet detect. In which case, when the Enterprise... and the ship following it... hit this particular course they got swept along. There are plenty of cases of things getting places faster than they should in Trek, this is a decent explanation without requiring wormholes or unprecedentedly advanced technology. Or even extra FX. --JCoyote 15:46, 1 November 2006 (UTC)