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Originally Posted by antelope526
No ship in the rag tag fleet was capable of light speed. With that being said TOS could have never taken place beyond the original star system.
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Yet clearly they ARE travelling great distances by the plotlines.
Poppa Larson left us no credible technical explaination for this.
Either everyone had a way of travelling at or near light speed (freighter and cylons included) or no one had it
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If no one had it, they wouldn't have got out of their own back yard, and to Carillon, let alone to Kobol or beyond.
Instead we have to accept that there are HUGE holes in the tech cred of the base story line, but it is a good intellectual exercise to consider, debate, and dodge them.
I like JJR's take on it with the space currents. It was a good peice of speculative fiction and a masterful use of the assumption: going just beyond our own limits of knowledge without resorting to 'magic'
Cheers,
Lara
