The Star Trek television series and films use the term “warp drive” to describe their method of faster-than-light travel. Neither the Alcubierre theory, nor anything similar, existed when the series was conceived—the term “warp drive” and general concept originated with John W. Campbell’s 1931 science fiction novel Islands of Space. Alcubierre stated in an email to William Shatner that his theory was directly inspired by the term used in the show and cites the “‘warp drive’ of science fiction” in his 1994 article. A USS Alcubierre appears in the Star Trek tabletop RPG Star Trek Adventures. Since the release of Star Trek: The Original Series, more recent Star Trek spin-off series have made closer use of the theory behind the Alcubierre Drive incorporating warp bubbles/fields into the in-universe science.
And all it would require is more energy than exists trapped in all the matter in the galaxy!
I thought someone redid the math a while back and got the energy requirement down to simply the mass of Jupiter.
Corrct, but, it also still requires local negative energy density to be a conceptually and physically possible thing.
Which is… currently not understood to be possible, or exist… so that basically does violate the laws of physics.
There have been even more recent attempts to… reconceptualize the whole idea, which have resulted in less required negative energy density…
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.06824
… but not 0. So this is still sci-fi, untill we discover… anti-energy, or… something like that.
Pretty good recent recap of the current status of this line of research, if you look past the misleading headline:
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a71362600/scientists-say-physical-warp-drive-possible/