Warping the rules of Physics - how accurate is Trek Science?

We try to keep the science as accurate as possible. Obviously, we have to take some liberties with it because, in fact, it's seemingly impossible to go faster than the speed of light. There are a lot of things in Star Trek that have to be fictional. If we are going to be limited in the future to travelling at the speed of light, no one's ever going to really be able to get anywhere, because other inhabited worlds are so far away that it would take so many years to get there, even if you were travelling at the speed of light.

That's that why Gene Roddenberry came up with the concept of Warp factors, which go up logarithmically. If you're travelling at Warp 5 or 6, you're travelling at hundreds of times the speed of light, which makes things available to us. So, in terms of real science and fictional science, we do our best to try to keep them kosher, and we have a lot of people helping us to do that.