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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: I 'tink I'm going to be spacesick
Message-ID: <424@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Apr-85 12:33:01 EDT
Article-I.D.: psivax.424
Posted: Fri Apr 26 12:33:01 1985
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References: <267@moncol.UUCP>
Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley friesen)
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In article <267@moncol.UUCP> john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer) writes:
>As long as we're talking about inconsistancies, let's mention the one that
>crops up in almost *every* episode- how the Enterprise orbits a planet.
>
>If you look at the viewscreen on the bridge, the planet is always turning
>underneath the ship. The filler shots during the log entries, etc. show the
>ship moving across the face of the planet with the saucer perpendicular to
>the ground.
>
>If the latter is the case, then the planet should show up on the left side
>or even the top of the viewscreen. I have trouble believing that the screen
>is "corrected" as this would be very disorienting to people on the bridge.
>
	Actually this may well be the case, the viewscreen is *not*
a window, it is a computer display. It may be set to show any
arbitrary view, as in several episodes where Kirk orders a *rear*
view, which then shows up on the screen the same as a front view.
Or how about the episodes in which it is used for a data display,
such as a "map" of a solar system. There is no particular reason
why it should always "face" forward.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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