10 Awkward Things That Must Have Happened After Star Trek Episodes

We've talked a lot about the Next Gen episode Force Of Nature, which showed that warp travel was slowly damaging space. At the end of the episode a speed limit of warp 5 was put in place throughout Federation space except in extreme emergencies. As we've gone over before, Starfleet never really followed this limit and we never got any solution to the problem in canon.

One thing we haven't really discussed was the fact that the Federation authorities would likely have to patrol their space to catch any civilian ships exceeding the speed limit, sort of like interstellar traffic cops.

We can only imagine the outrage of civilian freighter captains, who would almost certainly have their profits cut down because of the warp 5 limit. Who knows, the damage could've been minimised with new technology some time shortly after the episode, or Federation authorities may have continued to impose this speed limit on the civilians in their space, while allowing Starfleet to continually and blatantly ignore it.