GoKawiilBrazilian physicist validates the physics behind Star Trek's Picard Maneuver
Physicist NÃckolas de Aguiar Alves of the Federal University of ABC revisited the 'Picard Maneuver' from Star Trek: The Next Generation's episode 'The Battle,' in which Captain Picard jumps to warp speed and stops abruptly to create a visual double image that confuses an enemy ship. Working through the relativistic math, he found the tactic holds up better than the show's writers likely realized, tying it to real physics involving objects moving faster than a medium's speed of light.