FoxTrot by Bill Amend for May 31, 2009

Warp factor 11?

Indeed. Obviously not the trekkie he pretends to be.

..if I only worked sundays I could be this stupid….

Yes, the Enterprise is now being built by Ferrari.

“This one goes all the way up to 11 …”

rofl factor 11, sigh well maybe we can just pretend he meant it in roman numerals or soemthing and they printed 1’s

I think there was an episode in STTNG where they went beyond warp 10. The visitor showed Wesley how to do it. Maybe Jason is just merging the two in his twisted little mind…

NERD ALERT!!!!!!

I love when the latest movie gets put in the strip with Jason…

Assaulted by ”a little squirt!”

Didn’t the movie already have a kid Kirk? And BTW, for prequels they probably couldn’t go beyond Warp 2 1/2…

On Voyager there was an episode where Tom And B’lana went to warp factor 11.

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I think Rayannina is right. Adams was making a Spinal Tap joke when Jason said ‘Warp Factor 11”. These go to 11, indeed.

It could also involve the fact that the “warp 10 is the maximum possible speed” rule wasn’t in place until TNG – and even there it was ignored in the future parts of the series finale.

As with everything else even remotely appealing to nerds, there is a wiki that explains it: http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Warp_factor

Knowing Jason, he’s probably talking in binary, as in:

There are 11 kinds of people: those who know binary and those who don’t.

@morton115

I’m afraid you can count yourself among those that don’t. 11 is 3 in binary, whereas 10 is 2. Or perhaps that’s the joke.

Thanks SaintRCat. I was about to say the same thing.

Senior moment. I don’t post very often. Thanks for correcting what I should have caught!

So, there are 11 kinds of people: those who know binary, those who don’t and those who used to but are out of practice. :-)

love that saying rofl

warp 11 sir? no its still to bleeep slow

11?! come on! he would NEVER do that unless time traveling!

Gweedo, that couch is so you!

…what..one strip a week too much work?…

Agreed, 3hourtour, what has happened to the “At least give us one strip a week if you’re taking away the dallies ”?

Senior moment, senior moment. Move along! Nothing to see here…

Funny how the inky stinky news inky paper can have a new Fox Trot cartoon but all the internet sites are still showing last weeks.

Was Peter driving Bills late submission right past all the electronic sites - failing to stop along the way?

I did better as a young child creating superlight velocity scales for my own fiction than STAR TREK has ever done. But then, I knew how to use actual star charts and to calculate interstellar distances and travel times, something that most STAR TREK writers never bothered to do. (I still do this, using a log ten scale of superlight velocities and the best star data I can get.)

It cracks me up to see the STAR TREK writers and fans try to back-pedal and justify a completely arbitrary, inconsistent and ad hoc system of measurement. And I find it hard to imagine that Jason wouldn’t complain about it, or not fall prey to it. Hey, Mr. Amend, how about a Sunday strip where Jason does just that: complain about STAR TREK’s sliding velocity scales and technobabble?

(Sorry, my Jungian Extraverted Thinking is screaming here like the frustrated Inner Child that it is. ;) )

billamend; thank you so very much. Very nice to see the latest strip. I have been getting such a kick of Jason’s antics of late, that I am going to have to go to the local book store. Why? I want to start a buying some of the Foxtrot collection books. I have them for Calvin and Hobbes, Peanuts, Far Side and Dilbert. I need some fresh laughs that I can quickly share with others. Thanks again.

In the original series of star trek the warp scale went further than 10 to at least 14. In the next generation it was changed so that 10 was the limit.

A reboot of a reboot? That sounds like what they’re trying to do with the new Superman movie.

Lol, anyone notice how whenever someone talks to the blonde kid with the glasses, they have apple juice XD LOL

Que Star Trek Discovery, 8 years, 5 months later

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Paige got burned there. She can be an alien sometimes.