Cochrane (Star Trek)

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In the Star Trek fictional universe, the cochrane is a unit used to measure the subspace distortion of a subspace field. In the measurement of warp fields — subspace fields of one cochrane or greater — the number of cochranes is equal to the velocity in multiples of the speed of light that the field could move an object. Fractions of cochranes (most commonly the millicochrane, one one-thousandth of a cochrane) are often used to measure lesser subspace fields generated by such spatially distorting devices as tractor beams, deflector shields, and synthetic gravity field generators.

The cochrane was named in honor of Zefram Cochrane, the inventor of warp drive.

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