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43-608: There was also a special Planet Hulk: Gladiator Guidebook publication by Anthony Flamini and the storyline's main writer Greg Pak, similar to the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe detailing the characters, races and cultures within the storyline. Elements from the storyline have been adapted into other media, including an animated film of the same name , as well as the live action film Thor: Ragnarok . The storyline's main writer Greg Pak describes

86-560: A formula based on the original one but with an important difference: In the half-open interval from 9   to 10, the exponent   w increases toward infinity. Thus, in the Okuda scale, warp velocities approach warp 10 asymptotically . According to the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual there is no exact formula for this interval because the quoted velocities are based on

129-401: A hand-drawn curve; what can be said is that at velocities greater than warp 9, the form of the warp function changes because of an increase in the exponent of the warp factor   w . Due to the resultant increase in the derivative , even minor changes in the warp factor eventually correspond to a greater than exponential change in velocity. Warp factor 10 was set as an unattainable maximum of

172-411: A matter/anti-matter reaction which powers the two separate nacelles (one on each side of the ship) to create a displacement field. Enterprise , set in 2151 and onward, follows the voyages of the first human ship capable of traveling at warp factor 5.2, which under the old warp table formula (the cube of the warp factor times the speed of light), is about 140 times the speed of light (i.e., 5.2 cubed). In

215-483: A miniseries titled "Planet Hulk" written by Sam Humphries and penciled by Marc Laming . It follows a variation of Steve Rogers and a variation of Devil Dinosaur as they fight their way through the Battleworld domain of Greenland, a region filled with an assortment of Hulks. The series has been collected into a number of individual volumes : Anthony Flamini Anthony Flamini (born October 3, 1978)

258-404: A natural physical or economical limit beyond which higher speeds are no longer possible. The reference work Star Trek Fact Files indicates this limit at warp factor 9.99. This is the highest conventional warp speed mentioned for a spaceship (Borg cube). Also in the episode Threshold ( Star Trek Voyager ) the warp factor 9.99 is suggested as the limit. This is the last warp factor mentioned before

301-637: A popular hero for his actions in the arena, and a group of insurgents try to recruit the Hulk to their cause. The Hulk declines, but Elloe chooses to go with the rebels. During their next gladiator fight, Lavin Skee is killed. As the others come closer to winning their freedom, the Red King's lieutenant, Caiera , arranges for them to fight the Silver Surfer, who is also controlled by an obedience disk. During

344-470: A recording from the Illuminati explaining their actions, his shuttle crashes on the planet Sakaar . Weakened from the crash, Hulk is fixed with an obedience disk and taken into slavery. He is forced to fight gladiator battles for the planet's emperor, the Red King. Hulk forms a "Warbound" pact with his fellow gladiators Miek , No-Name Brood , Elloe Kaifi , Lavin Skee, Hiroim and Korg . Hulk becomes

387-642: A simplified Okuda scale and some reference values for warp speeds from onscreen sources. In the episode " Where No One Has Gone Before " the Traveler's modifications to the Enterprise -D's propulsion system allowed the Enterprise to travel 2.7 million light years from the Milky Way Galaxy to M 33 , effectively blowing past several smaller galaxies, in a few minutes, which according to La Forge,

430-488: A subspace field, the warp field or a warp bubble , which distort space-time and propels the bubble and spaceship in the bubble forward. That is similar to the Alcubierre drive , but with some exceptions as the maintenance of sub-light velocity and inertia. This means that a spaceship does not come to a complete standstill after the warp flight, but that superluminal and subluminal speeds flow directly into one another. It

473-506: A theoretical infinite speed, at which an object would occupy all points in the universe simultaneously (according to the new scale, reaching or exceeding warp 10 required an infinite amount of energy). This is described in Star Trek Technical Manuals as "Eugene's limit", in homage to creator/producer Gene Roddenberry . As stated in the collection Star Trek Fact Files , no ship, including highly developed ships like

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516-469: Is also possible to ram another object at warp speed that is outside the warp bubble. This necessitates the existence of fictional deflector shields that protect the spacecraft from damage from collisions with interstellar dust particles and asteroids. The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " By Inferno's Light " indicates that flying at warp speed inside a planetary system is not recommended. The warp core can be designed in various forms. Humans and most of

559-545: Is an American freelance comic book writer. He served as Head Writer and Coordinator for the "Civil War: Battle Damage Report" and "Civil War Files." He wrote three volumes of short stories and profiles as part of the Marvel Comics adaptation of Stephen King's Dark Tower series which have since been collected in the Dark Tower Omnibus. He also contributed to the development of the world of Planet Hulk and

602-505: Is generally expressed in "warp factor" units, which—according to Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual —corresponds to the magnitude of the warp field. Achieving warp factor   1 is equal to breaking the light barrier, while the actual velocity corresponding to higher factors is determined using an ambiguous formula. According to the Star Trek episode writer's guide for The Original Series , warp factors are converted to multiples of

645-452: Is rarely the subject of explicit expression, and travel times for specific interstellar distances are not consistent through the various series. In the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual it was written that the real warp speed depends on external factors such as particle density or electromagnetic fields and only roughly corresponds with the calculated speed of current warp factor. The reference work Star Trek Maps established

688-401: Is the foretold savior, "Sakaarson". Hulk denies this title. Caiera finally confronts the Hulk, but their battle is interrupted by an invasion of "spikes" that cause monstrous mutations and death to anyone they touch. Caiera calls the Red King for assistance and learns that he ordered the spikes to be deployed there. Horrified at what her king has done, Caiera joins the Hulk. Hulk leads a raid on

731-546: The Hulk to lose control and attack Las Vegas, the Illuminati decide the Hulk is too dangerous to remain on Earth. With the help of the Hulk's friend and psychiatrist Doc Samson , they trick him into entering orbit to destroy a rogue satellite, and then use a shuttle to jettison him from the solar system. They intended for him to land on a peaceful planet, but the shuttle passes through a wormhole on its way. As Hulk listens to

774-466: The Star Trek franchise, subspace communications have a limit of just over 20 light years before they must be boosted, although this limitation has been ignored in several storylines. Warp drive is one of the fundamental features of the Star Trek franchise; in the first pilot episode of Star Trek: The Original Series , " The Cage ", it is referred to as a "hyperdrive", with Captain Pike stating

817-556: The hyperspace that appears in Star Wars and other works of science fiction. In most Star Trek series, subspace communications are a means to establish nearly instantaneous contact with people who are light years away. The physics of Star Trek describes infinite speed (expressed as "warp factor 10") as an impossibility; as such, even subspace communications which travel at speeds over Warp 9.9 may take hours or weeks to reach certain destinations. One exception to this impossibility

860-463: The Borg cube, may exceed warp factor 9.99 with their normal warp drive. To achieve higher speeds, the use of transwarp technology is required. In the book Star Trek Encyclopedia and the compilation Star Trek Fact Files , some warp velocities are given directly. For comparison, the following table shows these values and also the calculated speeds of the original warp scale, the calculated speeds of

903-447: The Red King's capital, culminating in a one-on-one battle between the two of them. The Red King is defeated, and Hulk is named the new king. He takes Caiera for his wife, and the two are able to broker peace among the various conflicts which had festered under the Red King. Caiera becomes pregnant with Hulk's child. Meanwhile, the shuttle that brought the Hulk to Sakaar is being turned into a monument. As part of its self-destruct sequence,

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946-670: The antimatter warp core engine detonates in a massive explosion. The whole city is destroyed, and Caiera dies. Enraged and blaming the Avengers who built the shuttle for the damage, the Hulk and his Warbound leave Sakaar and head for Earth. Arriving on Earth, Hulk and the warbound begin World War Hulk . Sakaar rebuilds after the explosion with the help of the Hulk's two surviving sons, Skaar and Hiro-Kala . A special issue of What If? featured three alternate versions of Planet Hulk: The 2015 Secret Wars crossover included

989-498: The battle, the Hulk breaks the Silver Surfer's disk, freeing him. After the Hulk and Warbound refuse to kill a captured Elloe alongside two other rebels, the Silver Surfer then destroys all the obedience disks of everyone in the arena. As he leaves Sakaar, he offers to return Hulk to Earth. Hulk chooses to stay behind. The Hulk and his Warbound, now re-joined by Elloe and on the run from the Red King, are hunted by Caiera. As they travel through villages, Hulk finds followers who believe he

1032-518: The exact details of the first warp trials were not shown until the second Star Trek: The Next Generation movie, Star Trek: First Contact . The movie depicts Cochrane as having first operated a warp drive on Earth in 2063. This successful first trial led directly to first contact with the Vulcans . It was also established that many other civilizations had warp drive before humans; First Contact co-writer Ronald D. Moore suggested Cochrane's drive

1075-573: The form of interstellar travel or the transmission of information. Faster-than-light warp drive travel via subspace obeys different laws of physics. The name "subspace" has also been adopted and used in other fictional settings, such as the Stargate franchise, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, the Bobiverse series, and Descent: Freespace . Narratively, it plays a similar role to

1118-587: The histories/biographical information of several members of Big Hero 6 . Writer This profile of an American comics creator, writer, or artist is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Warp core The fictional technology in Star Trek has borrowed many ideas from the scientific world. Episodes often contain technologies named after or inspired by real-world scientific concepts, such as tachyon beams, baryon sweeps, quantum slipstream drives, and photon torpedoes . Some of

1161-444: The leap takes place in the transwarp state. In the book Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual the authors describe the idea of transwarp: Finally, we had to provide some loophole for various powerful aliens like Q, who have a knack for tossing the ship million of light years in the time of a commercial break. .. This lets Q and his friends have fun in the 9.9999+ range, but also lets our ship travel slowly enough to keep

1204-428: The only action of escaping, he announces to the crew they have no choice but to leave, stating "Our time warp factor   ..." before the ship's systems start failing. In the second pilot for The Original Series , " Where No Man Has Gone Before ", time was dropped from the speed setting with Kirk ordering speeds in the simple "ahead warp factor one" that became familiar from then on. The basic functional principle of

1247-411: The origin of the ideas: "The inspiration for sending Hulk to an alien planet where he'd battle monsters as a gladiator came from Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada . I loved the idea from the minute I heard it, so I was blown away when they told me I had the gig and even more blown away when they basically cut me loose to create the whole world". He also drew from real-world history: "I got inspiration for

1290-427: The other fictional races use a moderated reaction of antideuterium and deuterium with Dilithium . The Romulans, however, use artificial micro-black holes called quantum singularities . The episode " Metamorphosis ", from The Original Series , establishes a backstory for the invention of warp drive on Earth, in which Zefram Cochrane discovered the "space warp". Cochrane is repeatedly referred to afterwards, but

1333-407: The series pilot episode " Broken Bow ", Capt. Archer equates warp 4.5 to " Neptune and back [from Earth] in six minutes" (which would correspond to a distance of 547 light-minutes or 66 au , consistent with Neptune's being a minimum of 29 au distant from Earth). For Star Trek: The Next Generation and the subsequent series, Star Trek artist Michael Okuda drew up a new warp scale and devised

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1376-435: The speed of light by multiplication with the cubic function of the warp factor itself. Accordingly, "warp 1" is equivalent to the speed of light, "warp 2" is eight times the speed of light, "warp 3" is 27 times the speed of light, etc. Several episodes of The Original Series placed the Enterprise in peril by having it travel at high warp factors. However, the velocity (in present dimensional units) of any given warp factor

1419-411: The speed to reach planet Talos   IV as "time warp, factor 7". When beginning to explain travel times to the illusion survivors (before being interrupted by the sight of Vina), crew member Jose Tyler stated that "the time barrier's been broken", allowing a group of interstellar travelers to return to Earth far sooner than would have otherwise been possible. Later in the pilot, when Spock is faced with

1462-531: The story by reading about the real lives of gladiators in ancient Rome and from the stories of figures like Genghis Khan and more contemporary warlords, dictators, and political leaders. Sun Tzu 's Art of War and Joseph Campbell 's Power of Myth played a big role in helping me think through other aspects of the story". The story's roots began in the New Avengers: Illuminati one-shot and Incredible Hulk #88–91. The main storyline

1505-434: The technologies created for the Star Trek universe were done so out of financial necessity. For instance, the transporter was created because the limited budget of Star Trek: The Original Series ( TOS ) in the 1960s did not allow expensive shots of spaceships landing on planets. Discovery Channel Magazine stated that cloaking devices , faster-than-light travel, and dematerialized transport were only dreams at

1548-572: The theory of subspace (or warp) highways. In certain regions, a spaceship can fly at a multiple of the speed that corresponds to the current warp factor. In The Original Series , warp factor   6 was established as the common speed of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701. In some cases, the starship traveled at warp   7 or above, but with risk of damaging the ship or the engines. Warp   8 in The Original Series

1591-486: The time TOS was made, but physicist Michio Kaku believes all these things are possible. William Shatner , who portrayed James T. Kirk in TOS , believes this as well, and went on to co-write the book I'm Working on That , in which he investigates how Star Trek technology is becoming feasible. In the Star Trek fictional universe, subspace is a feature of space-time that facilitates faster-than-light transit, in

1634-426: The warp drive in Star Trek is the same for all spaceships. It was originally conceived of by a strong energy source, usually called a warp core or sometimes intermix chamber , generates a high-energy plasma . This plasma is transported to warp field generators via lines that are reminiscent of pipes. These generators are effectively coils in warp nacelles protruding from the spaceship. The warp nacelles generate

1677-585: Was in some way superior to forms which existed beforehand, and was gradually adopted by the galaxy at large. The following table shows the gradual evolution of the warp drive and the warp speeds of humanity and later the United Federation of Planets. For better comparison, the warp factors of the TNG scale, based on the values given in the book Star Trek Encyclopedia , have been converted to cubic warp factors from TOS. The warp drive velocity in Star Trek

1720-638: Was in the Star Trek: Voyager episode " Threshold " where Lt. Paris breaks the Warp 10 barrier. In the Star Trek universe subspace signals do not degrade with the square of the distance as do other methods of communication utilizing conventional bands of the electromagnetic spectrum (i.e. radio waves), so signals sent from a great distance can be expected to reach their destination at a predictable time and with little relative degradation (barring any random subspace interference or spatial anomalies). In

1763-572: Was off the charts, surpassing Warp 10 of the known scale. According to the Technical Manual the authors estimated the speed of this episode at warp factor 9.9999999996. Upon further modification, the Enterprise -D was thrown over a billion light years into an uncharted place in the universe in a matter of seconds with a warp factor that is, according to Data, no greater than 1.5. Transwarp generally refers to speeds and technologies that are beyond conventional warp drives. The warp drive has

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1806-400: Was the "never exceed" speed for the hulls and engines of Constitution- class starships. Warp   6 was the maximum safe cruising speed for that vessel class. Later on, a prequel series titled Star Trek: Enterprise describes the warp engine technology as a "Gravimetric Field Displacement Manifold" ( Commander Tucker 's tour, " Cold Front ") and describes the device as being powered by

1849-703: Was told in Incredible Hulk #92–105, and Giant-Size Hulk vol 2 #1. It led directly to the World War Hulk crossover, and inspired the Son of Hulk series. The story was re-examined in What If? : Planet Hulk . In October 2017, a sequel, titled Return to the Planet Hulk , starring Amadeus Cho as the Hulk, was released as a part of Marvel's Marvel Legacy initiative. When a Gamma bomb causes

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