Editing Star Trek Starships (section)

===Drives===
Unlike other franchises, the vessels in Star Trek have three different types of engines. Warp Drives, Thrusters, and Impulse Engines. The main means of FTL travel in Star Trek is the Warp Drive, which distorts space-time around the ship, forming a bubble around it. Anything within that bubble can move along at superluminal speeds. In order to keep the crew from being turned into flesh paste, ships also have "Inertial Dampening Fields".

Roughly speaking, by the late 2370s, Starfleet ships could keep up a pace of about 1,000 times the speed of light (given that it would take Voyager about 70 years to cross about 70,000 light years) and could sprint faster still.

For STL travel, Impulse Drives are used. These work on a broadly similar principle to Warp Drive, but don't need Antimatter Reactors to work. In a Pinch, they can work as a low-end Warp Drive. Most of the Impulse is used for inner solar systems and planetary orbits.

Thrusters are mainly used for maneuverability, while moving while inside or docking with Starbases/Spacedocks. Some vessels have Thrusters that allow 600 meter plus ships to pull off feats [[what|typical of space fighters in other franchises.]] Something more commonly seen in the post-TNG era. This is actually somewhat realistic. As there is little to no atmosphere in space to provide resistance, the primary limiting factor to your speed is the output/specific impulse or your engine, fuel reserves and ''"How many G of acceleration until the humans turn into chunky pasta sauce"'', with a secondary concern of when the hull it self will fail but generally the organic part is the weakest link of a ship. For the sake of simplicity. We'll assume that Inertial Dampening Fields are on during emergency and combat maneuvers too. However, said feats are mainly exclusive to Federation vessels such as the Galaxy and Sovereign classes. On the other hand, since Feddie Engineers have a large enough reputation to have memes about them in the universe. Even by factions they fought against. Such as "one of those famed Starfleet engineers who can turn rocks into replicators, " coined by one of the Dominion's Vorta commanders. Maybe they are nearly just that good.