Warp speed and travel times
A star Trek example of 'speed of plot' was this
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Originally Posted by Memory Alpha Wikia
In late-2373, the Valiant began a three month training cruise mission to circumnavigate the entire Federation before returning home. The plan was for the cadets to run the ship while the officers aboard observed and critiqued their performance.
A Defiant class vessel is capable of sustaining warp 9.2 and the trip would take 6 YEARS (circumnavigate the Federation)
Yeah I had forgotten about Han and the whole parsec quote, poor writing and displays a level of ignorance that is infuriating.
a parsec is a unit of measure and is equal to about 3.26ly. BTW the word parsec is named from an abbreviation of the parallax of one arcsecond
As I mentioned in previous posts the whole hyperdrive reliability issue was really over the top, they were always broken.
The best way I can explain the difference between SW vs ST is Star Trek is science fiction, Star Wars is science fantasy.