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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: In this case, they have no sense of either [[SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfDistance distance]] or [[SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfVelocity velocity]]. Here's how: Archer says that ''Enterprise'' can get to "Neptune and back in six minutes"; a bit later, he says that it will take them less than four days to get to Qo'noS. Later still, he says that they're traveling at 30 million kilometers per second, which is ''broadly'' consistent with the Neptune travel distance (it would mean a round trip of five minutes rather than six, but maybe their speed is slightly greater later in the voyage). Doing the math will show that for all statements to be true, Qo'noS would have to be ''less than one light-year'' from Earth. (For comparison, the closest star system -- Alpha Centauri -- is 4.3 light-years from Earth. At this speed, it would take 19 days to get there.) Whoever wrote the dialogue fails math forever. (Granted, that math assumes instant acceleration.)
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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: In this case, they have no sense of either [[SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfDistance distance]] distance or [[SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfVelocity velocity]].velocity. Here's how: Archer says that ''Enterprise'' can get to "Neptune and back in six minutes"; a bit later, he says that it will take them less than four days to get to Qo'noS. Later still, he says that they're traveling at 30 million kilometers per second, which is ''broadly'' consistent with the Neptune travel distance (it would mean a round trip of five minutes rather than six, but maybe their speed is slightly greater later in the voyage). Doing the math will show that for all statements to be true, Qo'noS would have to be ''less than one light-year'' from Earth. (For comparison, the closest star system -- Alpha Centauri -- is 4.3 light-years from Earth. At this speed, it would take 19 days to get there.) Whoever wrote the dialogue fails math forever. (Granted, that math assumes instant acceleration.)
