No matter how contracted relativistic time on ship was, the external time would keep ticking normally.
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Actually warp drive is only THEORETICALLY capable of faster than light speeds, but going faster than light by warping spacetime would require more energy than is present in the entire universe. That's kind of impossible.
In reality what space warping WILL be used for is going at a fraction of the speed of light, like .1c which is still enough for moving around the solar system in moments. It'll let us populate this system, which has enough real estate and different environments for hundreds of human-based species.
If star trek was realistic it would be based here, with terraformed venus, mars, luna, jovian moons… populated by genetically engineered human races that would probably look exactly like star trek characters…. and humanity has more cultural diversity than Roddenberry could think of….
>cue butthurt autists