Is Star Wars Hyperdrive Faster than Warp Speed?

Today we ask how fast ships in Star Wars go, and also take a look at how a hyperdrive works, asking is it faster than Star Trek's Warp drive?
(Note to Trek fans: this is not comparing to the Transwarp technology of the Borg etc...)

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[pocketheart]

Why do people argue about SW vs. ST being better? That's dumb, they're completely different things, and it's possible to enjoy both.

[ralphglatt]

Silly question! All space travel is at the speed of the plot! ;-)

[jwatson]

Hyperdrive: Faster but limited to the hyper space lanes. Warpdrive: Slower but able to fly nearly any course.

[massaweed]

No offense meant of course, but Ben looks like someone who would try to sell me deathsticks lol

[banzeyegaming]

The Millenium Falcon took 3 days to travel from, say, Coruscant to Corellia. You could use that, and I’ve heard people say it would take roughly 2 weeks to travel from point A to point B (The Galaxy). Hope that helps!

[friday]

hyperdrive is faster but more indirect and more restricted. Warp is slower but more free and direct

[rolkflameraven]

Well yes, hyperdrive is faster, but it's complicated as hell. Warp is far, FAR more flexible. Trek now has Quantum Slipstream, which is an obvious Hyperdrive ripoff, but the better sensor tech of Trek allows them to simply go into it and out of it will.

[vooligan]

Though neither is fast than Ludicrous speed.

[zackboone]

Piett has a good line about this. When they are hunting the Falcon, he brings up the possibility they escaped and they could be "halfway across the galaxy by now"

[resurrectedstarships]

Hi gen tech! thanks for this video and thanks for the link at the end!! I am not sure if it was deliberate but people are saying you 'sent them'!! :) Keep up the great content!

[thetapl]

"light speed is not fast enough we must go ludicrous speed"
"ludicrous speed?"
"ludicrous speed."

[OriginalMergatroid]

Did we miss the part where Han Solo says the Falcon will make ".5 past light speed"? Enterprise will go WAY faster than that.

[borgkube]

Since ships in Star Wars 'jump' to hyperspace, I have always assumed that they used an Einstein-Rosen Bridge, ie a 'aryificial' wormhole to travel between points. Because you are folding space the distance between any two points is the same, up to the range of the hyperdrive unit. If a destination is out of your range then you have to make more than jump. Therefore the speed in Star War is rather unimportant. Even though the M Falcon is rated at .5 over lights peed in the first movie, the never really talk about speed of ships. All journeys seem to take less than a day. They never talk about it taking a week to reach Dantooene like they alway do in Star Trek. Finally, I don't think I remember an occasion in Star Was where someone left after another ship and got to the same destination before the ship they were chasing. That would same support the idea that time to destination is a constant and that physical distance between points in real space makes no difference. This is entirely different than Star Trek where a warp field bubble is generated and normal space is pulled and pushed past the ship so that the ship inside the bubble never actually exceeds the speed of light and thereby violating the laws of physics but still effectively traveling faster than light . I think as a practical matter, Gene Roddenberry was always interested in keeping it scientifically accurate within the Canon of the universe, where as George Lucas was interested in story and the science was whatever sounded cool and later authors have tried to find science that would explain Lucas' ideas. Not that Star Trek doesn't fudge it sometimes.

[haku]

well, basicly the hyperdrive is for planned routes and the warpdrive is for people flying arround whereever they want.

[luismanfredoreyes]

The new Spore Drive used in Star Trek Discovery allows to ship to travel across all the galaxy instantly

[SFtheGreat]

Long story short: with full warp Voyager would take 75 years to get home, while in Star Wars ships travel from one corner of th e galaxy to another in a matter of hours.

[michaelmartin]

You forgot TransWarp hubs - the borg used them to traverse the galaxy in a matter of mins/hours

[Iffy]

My favorite part about Star Trek is how illogical they are when it comes to distances and measurements. A swarm of alien vessel is 10, 000 klicks away and can be visibly seen a few seconds later swarming the ship. VOY The Swarm

[ralphglatt]

Joss Whedon said it best - "All spaceships travel at the speed of the plot."

[the_old_crimge]

what about transwarp from star trek? it could be described similarly