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At the very least, most of the show treats the issue of getting home as a speed issue, and not an engine-durabilty issue.

If that was the writer's intention, that's a very esoteric way of stating it.

It's still idealized because they're not actually going to shoot straight through the galaxy without ever stopping, but they're calculating based on the ship being able to run the distance. There's no reason to do the math on something that the ship isn't capable of.

I assumed that meant the maximum they could reasonably sustain.

At the end of "Caretaker," Janeway's log says, "Even at maximum speeds, it would take seventy five years to reach the Federation." Emphasis on the "even at maximum speeds." This figure was never meant to be a practical figure, but an optimal one.

Remember that to get home, Voyager is running a marathon, not a sprint. That's pretty damn good for a ship that maxes out at 9.975-which, as previously stated, will kill the engine if they go that fast for too long. But remember: that's "average," meaning that in order to compensate for them stopping for fuel, supplies, and whatever else they might wanna do, they'd probably have to be sustaining warp 9 for significant periods. Actually, if Voyager is averaging 1000 LY/year (which is what it would take to get them home in 70 years), that means that they're doing an average speed of warp 8, which is pretty fast.To put it another way: Slow and steady wins the race, because the guy who had the pedal-to-the-metal ran out of gas and melted his warp core before he made it half way. That means flying home at Voyager's cruising speed, warp factor 6, instead their unsustainable maximum speed. For a ship that's so far out of its element, the name of the game for Voyager is "efficiency:" operating in a way that gets the most out of their limited resources. The people who designed Voyager's Intrepid-class never dreamed that one would have to cross 70,000 light years on its own without regular support, maintenance, and resupply. We are finishing minor repairs before returning to Federation territory." That's just a few days of Enterprise traveling at near-maximum warp before they needed to stop for maintenance-and the Galaxy-class was actually built to handle long-range, multi-year missions. Our frequent use of high warp over the last few days has overextended the propulsion systems. In TNG: "The Chase," Picard gives the following log entry: "Captain's log, stardate 46735.2. You can't red-line an engine that long without completely breaking it.Twenty-six years for Voyager to get home, not 70.Įven if they set "It's gonna take 'X' years to get home (whether 8 or 26), and not 70, that would make for some compelling drama and a healthy "Oh, shit." moment. Voyager should take around 8 years to get home, not 70.Įven more frustrating, when you divide 2700 LY/year (the second Ent-D speed) into 70k LY, you get 26 years. When you divide 9k LY/year (the first Ent-D speed) into 70k LY, you get 7.8.

Voyager is only 70,000LY from Earth, and is faster (Maximum Warp = 9.975) than the Enterprise. That gives the Enterprise a speed of 2700LY/year. Then, in "Q-Who", Data says that the Enterprise is thrown 7000LY from the nearest Starbase, and that it would take 2.5-2.6 years to get there at maximum warp. In the TNG episode "Where No One Has Gone Before", the Enterprise is propelled 2,700,000 LY from Earth (into the M33 galaxy), and La Forge states that "at maximum warp, it will take over.300 years, to get home"! With the Enterprise maximum warp velocity being Warp 9.6-9.8, that equates to 9,000LY/year. Are they sight-seeing? Are they trying to "not wake the neighbors"? Are their engines irreparably damaged or something?

70 years to get home would mean that Voyager is strolling along at only 1000LY/year. 70,000LY takes SEVENTY YEARS to get HOME? Why it took a whole generation (whether writer error, or bad math on the part of the crew) always bothered me.