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Because (1) the episode where the problem came up was in the show\\\'s last season (not \\\"early in \\\'\\\'TNG\\\'\\\'\\\"), (2) while the original comment was correct that worrying about doing \\\"environmental\\\" damage in space - which has no environment - would be silly, the problem wasp travel was allegedly causing was damage to the fabric of reality, which presumably does extend into space, and (3) the problem was never handwaved onscreen. It came late enough in the show\\\'s run that it rarely even came up for the remaining episodes, and since the solution was just a speed limit that only the Federation and Klingons were said to agree to, it could be assumed that any time a ship was explicitly stated to be going faster than Warp 5, they met whatever guidelines were in place for declaring their trip \\\"an emergency.\\\"

Because (1) the episode where the problem came up was in the show\\\'s last season (not \\\"early in \\\'\\\'TNG\\\'\\\'\\\"), (2) while the original comment was correct that worrying about doing \\\"environmental\\\" damage in space - which has no environment - would be silly, the problem wasp travel was allegedly causing was damage to the fabric of reality, which presumably does extend in space, and (3) the problem was never handwaved onscreen. It came late enough in the show\\\'s run that it rarely even came up for the remaining episodes, and since the solution was just a speed limit that only the Federation and Klingons were said to agree to, it could be assumed that any time a ship was explicitly stated to be going faster than Warp 5, they met whatever guidelines were in place for declaring their trip \\\"an emergency.\\\"