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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kreynolds" data-source="post: 487709" data-attributes="member: 2829">It was spewing radiation to a great distance in only three directions. The last direction wasn't as extensive. Tapal even states this towards the end of the episode.It's generally a bad idea to navigate near a black hole at warp, especially since the navigation systems of the day didn't auto-correct your course because of obstacles and/or dangers.It's a big area. If they go through it, it will take less time, but this brings me to the next point...That's because the radiation wasn't spread out evenly (also, see first answer). Our own sun doesn't even emit radiation in a perfert circle. Solar winds can interfere with it.No. They would clear the area in 17 minutes because they were already deep into the field, and the field did not extend equally in all directions. Tapal even stated this to Archer (also, see first answer).Nope. I payed attention. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Seriously though, I do remember that in TNG, they avoided black holes like the plague because Enterprise wasn't capable of escaping gravity wells at all. Not even by a long shot. Voyager, on the other hand, was a more advanced ship, and actually managed to escape a black hole, though it nearly destroyed their ship, and IIRC, they were making repairs for at least a few episodes (well, ok, they were always making repairs <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />).</blockquote>

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