Technical details:
Acoording to the plans for the drive presented in the TNG technical menu, the impulse drive uses a bunch of fusion reactors to power up a set of subspace driver coils (which seems to explain how they can go in reverse if the engines are only on the back). However, they do have to deal with the prior mentioned relativistic effects, I think, so they normally stick around .25 c.
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