How long would it actually take a Starfleet starship to travel from Earth to the Andromeda Galaxy?

Andromeda is roughly 2.5 million light-years from Earth — an almost unimaginable distance. But what happens when we apply Star Trek’s TNG-era warp scale to that journey?

In this video, we travel from Warp 1 all the way to Warp 9.999, calculating approximately how long a starship would need to cross the enormous gap between the Milky Way and Andromeda.

At Warp 1, the journey takes around 2.5 million years.

At Warp 9, it’s still roughly 1,650 years.

At Warp 9.9, that falls to around 820 years.