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FTL (Faster Than Light) Technologies in popular science fiction
The issue of faster than light travel is addressed differently in each science fiction franchise. This article briefly discusses three of the most popular franchises

Star Trek
Star Trek is an enormously popular science fiction franchise that includes five series, ten full length motion pictures, comic books, and hundreds of licensed novels. FTL travel in Star Trek is centered around the Warp Drive technology. Most advanced civilizations eventually develop this technology, which acts as a right of passage of sorts for a species.

Interstellar starships are equipped with Warp engines, which allow for travel at several times the speed of light.

Star Wars
Perhaps the most universally known science fiction franchise of all time, the Star Wars universe is made up primarily of six full length movies, with thousands of licensed additions. Together, these licensed works create a vibrant fictional universe.

FTL in Star Wars comes in the form of the Hyperdrive, which allows ships to travel many times faster than the speed of light. The origin of this technology is lost in antiquity, but some of the licensed works it has been implied that the technology for the hyperdrive actually originated outside of the known galaxy.

Battlestar Galactica
Battlestar Galactica is more of a niche franchise, with a cult following. The series was originally aired in the late 70s, with a reboot series that ran four seasons in the late 2000s.

The technology for FTL in Battlestar Galactica is simply called FTL. Rather than travelling in a trajectory at faster than light speed, the vessels will simply plot and perform a "jump," which instantly transports the ship across lightyears.