GUIDANCE AND NAVIGATION

	Critical to the flight of any vehicle through interstellar space are the 
concepts of guidance and navigation. These involve the ability to control 
spacecraft motions, to determine the locations of specific points in three and 
four dimensions, and to allow the spacecraft to follow safe paths between 
those points.

	The theater of operation for the USS Enterprise takes it through both 
known and unknown regions of the Milky Way galaxy. While the problems of 
interstellar navigation have been well-defined for over two hundred years, 
navigating about this celestial whirlpool, especially at warp velocities, still 
requires the precise orchestration of computers, sensors, active high-energy 
deflecting devices, and crew decision-making abilities.  Æ