Hey! I just thought of something. Maybe i'm dumb for not realising this before, but.... I did A levels in Maths and Physics, and one of the things i studied was Einstein's theory of special relativity. Once you reach approximately 1/3rd the speed of light, e no longer equals mc squared. Einstein came up with a new formula that took into account all sorts of effects, i can't remember the exact formula but i don't think it matters. Now i had a really cool set of teachers, who let us theorise about things like warp and lightspeed. We decided that the first major problem was reaching anything close to light speed in a human life time. The accelaration needed to reach light speed in less than 80 years would kill a human. BUT!!! What if the vehicle was substantially massive enough that if it were imparted a spin, it generated it's own grivitic effect due to the centrifugal force imparted by the spin. This would then mean that the vehicle could accelarate at a much greater rate, and get much closer to light speed. You then reach the problem of infinite mass in relation to light speed, but i haven't come up with anything for that yet. AND!!! Even at the speed of light, it would take several years to cross a section of our galaxy, which i believe is what is essentially going on in ST Voyager. However in SW the galaxy can be crossed in what? a couple of weeks? Which means that 'light speed' in SW must be SEVERAL HUNDRED times the speed of light. Assuming of course that there isn't a significant difference in the size of the galaxies that these dramas take place in. Thoughts please.