Thanks MaJoC. I thought that travelling at the actual speed of light would be instantaneous to the traveller and your explanation seems to confirm that. As you rightly point out though, the traveller could not have a non-zero mass so we could not achieve actual light speed. The comment I was questioning was about traveling 9 billion light yeas in 250000 years. That would entail a factor of around 0.003% of what we would see from Earth. I think! What percentage of the speed of light would need to be achieved to do that?

Discounting warp factor 10 of course:-D