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Well, it's not really a 'speed' per se.

 

The warp field supposedly has two functions - distort space (compressing it ahead of the ship and expanding it behind), and create a barrier that excludes relativistic effects.

 

It's a safe bet that we are a lot further than 300 short years from that kind of technology, but I wouldn't rule it out completely.

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That's where the "barrier to exclude relativistic effects" bit comes in ;)

 

Incidentally the stardate system was adopted to allow ships travelling at different sub-warp speeds to stay synchronised with all the different panets in the federation, which obviously have different rotational and orbital periods.

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