They don’t directly mention it, but as I recall after that episode traveling at high warp speeds was greatly diminished and warp speeds above certain thresholds were only used in emergency situations/required special authorization. So not completely abandoned but they certainly didn’t build on the premise, which is a shame because I thought it was one of the cooler plot elements that was introduced in the series.

I’d be fine with it if we could get some good “once in a lifetime” events occasionally. I’m in my 30s and pretty much every single one has been bad so far.

Ya know now that you mention it, I don’t recall Congress ever explicitly delegating the selection of the “go” and “stop” colors to any government entity. Wonder if you could now use this as a defense against running a red light…

Just fyi the term for molecules with hydrophobic and hydrophilic regions is amphipathic not bipolar.