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* ''[[Blake's 7|Blakes Seven]]'' gave the Federation "Time distort" drives, which appear to be a kind of warped space drive. The Liberator and Scorpio both employed even more exotic propulsion systems whose principles were different and unknown. However, [[Bellisario's Maxim|the show never really made a big deal]] of these mechanics.
* ''[[Andromeda]]'' uses slipstreams, a kind of portal drive, which requires a [[Humans Are Special|human pilot]]—well, an organic lifeform, anyway (a computer can only navigate slipstreams accurately if it has access to a [[Plot Coupon|one-of-a-kind perfect and complete map]] of all slipstreams, or the willingness to use, [[Brain In a Jar|less savory tactics]]) and is described as "not the best way to travel faster than light, just the only way".
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' allowed ships to travel faster than light using "hyperspace", envisioned here as an alternate dimension in which travel is much more rapid (possibly due to distance compression). More advanced (or, at least, bigger) ships could enter and exit hyperspace at will, by using a "jump engine" (really more of a projector) to create a temporary "jump point" (portal) in their own flight path, while less advanced or powerful ones (even single-seat fighters!) could still travel faster than light by either accompanying a jump-capable ship or using a [[Portal Network|network of stationary
** The ''White Star'' class warships were noted as the smallest vessels equipped with their own "jump engine".
** There was a combat tactic, known as the "Bonehead Maneuver", which involved using a jump engine to create a portal overlaid on an active jump gate portal; this would overload the jump gate's power supply, causing a catastrophic explosion. It was done once during the series, and was said to have been named during the [[Backstory|Earth-Minbari]] War, about a decade prior.
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'': The gates themselves act as portals, generating wormholes between planets. Ships too large to fit through a gate usually travel through hyperspace. However Earth-made hyperdrives are the textbook examples of [[Tim Taylor Technology]],<ref>and [[Explosive Overclocking]]...</ref> due to their use of highly unstable [[Made of Explodium|Naquadria]].
** Season 9 introduced supergates (really big stargate, needs a planet-mass black hole to power it) that were used to send ships from one galaxy to another quickly.
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* Varies in ''[[Power Rangers]]'' depending on the season. They use Jump travel when not using a ship ([[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]], [[Power Rangers Zeo]], [[Power Rangers Turbo]]), and Warp travel ''with'' a ship ([[Power Rangers in Space]], [[Power Rangers Lost Galaxy]]). Occasionally they use slower than light craft and wormholes.
* ''[[Space: 1999]]'' was entirely due to [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]: The MOON gets blasted out of not only Earth orbit, but the Solar System due to a frickin' EXPLOSION (somehow without being blasted apart by it), and is left [[Travelling At the Speed of Plot]], such that it hangs around in the vicinity of an interesting planet just long enough for the crew to fix whatever is wrong with it and fail to settle there, and STILL get to the next star system by next week's episode.
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