Star Trek: When Traveling At Warp, How Do Ships Avoid Collisions?

In Star Trek, warp drives allowed ships to travel at the speed of light. This brings about questions as to how ships traveling at warp speed don’t collide with each other. The explanation seems to be that if a ship could travel that fast, it enters into some type of different layer, where collisions wouldn’t happen. However, there is another school of thought that says those trips are in fact in the physical plane. Neither theory is officially confirmed in Star Trek.

Key Takeaways:

• Star Trek writers invented the warp engine to help their heroes explore the entire expanding universe of the story.
• The warp drives work by helping the ships to travel faster than light.
• While the ships may stay in the physical world, space is simply so huge that they’re not likely to collide with anything.

“A lot of people jump to the magical science to explain how ships avoid other ships, planets, stars, and other random space detritus, alluding to how the warp drive allows the ship to traverse through non-physical space.”

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