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On 2002-11-07 20:51, daver wrote:
> Here's what I remember from the dialogue on the bridge after the HMS Bounty took off from Golden Gate Park:
Kirk: "Wing, cruise configuration. Full impulse power."
This has one of two implications:
If you were to argue that the ship were accelerating at full impulse, you still have the issue of about two minutes of dialogue from San Francisco to the Alaskan coast.
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I think it would be a pretty bad idea to use full acceleration for the entire trip inside the atmosphere. The huge speeds generated would either do damage to the ship, or (more likely) cause serious shock-wave effects on the outside. So I would assume that there is a maximum speed set for atmospheric travel. They may have gone to full-impulse to start with, but once they reached maximum safe speed, they would have cut the acceleration. They would have needed some de-acceleration time at the end also.