186,000 miles per second. It's not just a good idea, it's a law we can all live with
-Sign on the TNG set (too small to read)...;)
I wonder, if you're at the speed of light, you'd have to have an external light source to cast a shadow in the first place..;) Past it, I dunno..been too many decades since college (well 2, but who's counting..;) Supposedly the Star Trek ships cross the lightspeed barrier in Planck time (sp? it's the shortest amount of measurable time..), entering subspace, and each succeeding field allows for further multiples of Lightspeed. On the TOS scale, it was the cube of the warp; by TOS it had expanded to larger numbers..there's graphs out there on the web for the fanciful-minded among us. It was mainly set by the idea that you didn't want to make the galaxy too small, which makes for more stories..what were we talking about again?..;)

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)