We didn't really leave Earth until after breaking the warp barrier. There were a few sleeper ships that left, but they were lost.
[It's sort of macabre once you think of it. There could still be sleeper ships out there, lost...and space is so large that they might never be found.]
Now, we can travel from Earth to the farthest reaches of Federation space in a few days. It'd take lifetimes otherwise.
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We didn't really leave Earth until after breaking the warp barrier. There were a few sleeper ships that left, but they were lost.
[It's sort of macabre once you think of it. There could still be sleeper ships out there, lost...and space is so large that they might never be found.]
Now, we can travel from Earth to the farthest reaches of Federation space in a few days. It'd take lifetimes otherwise.