Starfleet Jedi

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Franchise: Star Trek Series: The Next Generation Season: 06 Episode: 20 Title: The Chase wrote:
PICARD: For how long? 


GALEN: Three months, perhaps a year. If I had complete diplomatic access and a starship, it'd be a matter of weeks. But as it is, we'll have only my shuttle and whatever arrangement we can make with transports, combined with our talents. 


PICARD: Why do you need my help in this? 


GALEN: I'm not a young man. There will be hazards along the way. I don't want my own inadequacies to jeopardise the completion of this work. 


PICARD: I'm deeply honoured that you'd think of me, but I have responsibilities. 


GALEN: To History. What if you could have helped Schliemann discover the City of Troy, or been with M'Tell as she first stepped on Ya'Seem. How could anything compare?

Franchise: Star Trek Series: Voyager Season: 04 Episode: 08 Title: Year of Hell Part 1 wrote:
SEVEN: Astrometric sensors measure the radiative flux of up to three billion stars simultaneously. The computer then calculates our position relative to the centre of the galaxy. 


KIM: This mapping technology is ten times more accurate than what we've been using. Seven, will you do the honours? We've plotted a new course home. 


SEVEN: By my estimates this trajectory will eliminate five years from your journey.

% years was subtracted from Voyager's trip home with better maps

Franchise: Star Trek Series: Voyager Season: 04 Episode: 26 Title: Hope and Fear wrote:
ADMIRAL HAYES [on monitor]: Apologies from everyone at Starfleet Command. We've had our best people working around the clock, trying to find a wormhole, a new means of propulsion, anything to get you home. But despite our best efforts. I know it's not what you were hoping, but we've sent you all the data we've collected on the Delta Quadrant. With any luck, you'll find at least some part of it useful. Maybe enough to shave a few years off your journey. Safe journey. We hope to see you soon.

A few years was removed from Voyager's trip home simply by getting better maps

Franchise: Star Trek Series: Voyager Season: 07 Episode: 19 Title: Q2 wrote:
Q: Oh, before I leave. (gives her a PADD) I did a little homework for you. Consider it a thank you for everything you did for Junior. 


JANEWAY: Not that I don't appreciate it, but this will only take a few years off our journey. Why not send us all the way? 


Q: What sort of an example would I be setting for my son if I did all the work for you?

A few years was subtracted from Voyager's trip home with better maps

Just better a tiny bit of navigational data seems to have nocked about 10 to 15 years off Voyager's trip home.

Picard wrote:I have a theory that since warp drive apparently warps timespace, and gravity also warps timespace, ship has to compensate for all gravitational effects along the way. So while in a well-charted space high speeds might be achievable at some routes by using stars' gravitational fields to speed up the ship, in an uncharted space ship's speed is limited by its sensors. This would explain both great variances in speed as well as Voyager's unusually low sustained speed.