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From: zubbie@ihlpa.UUCP (Jeanette Zobjeck)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: I 'tink I'm going to be spacesick
Message-ID: <210@ihlpa.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-May-85 13:20:48 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihlpa.210
Posted: Thu May  2 13:20:48 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 3-May-85 04:36:58 EDT
References: <267@moncol.UUCP> <1711@ut-sally.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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> > 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.
> > 
> > Does anyone care to even try to explain this one?
> > 
> > Name:		John Ruschmeyer
> > UUCP:		...!vax135!petsd!moncol!john	...!princeton!moncol!john
> > 						   ...!pesnta!moncol!john
> 
> Hmmm... Would _you_ build a viewscreen that could only be connected
> to _one_ camera?
> 
> It seems reasonable to me to have visual sensors that operate in ALL
> directions -- interesting things aren't always going to cooperate and
> approach the Enterprise from head on, right?  And, while in orbit, 
> the most interesting thing is the planet's surface, so that's what
> they put up on the screen.  Reasonable?
> 
> 
> Lewis Barnett,CS Dept, Painter Hall 3.28, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX 78712
> 
> -- barnett@ut-sally.ARPA, barnett@ut-sally.UUCP,
>       {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech,ctvax}!ut-sally!barnett

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If you refer to the scene in the movie which has the Enterprise manuvering
in a nebula the main thought is that Khan has a 2 dimensional idea of
battle tactics and so movement in the y direction is Jim's means of
sneaking up on him for the kill. 

It should be obvioius that here is a good case of the same thing.
The orientation of the Enterprose really has no relation to the
view shown in the main screen ( assuming that it is not a window.)
since space crews by that time will need to be able to envision
their environment in 3 dimensions. Except for any pilots among us
I dont think too many people are comfortable in doing this.

jeanette l. zobjeck
ihnp4!ihlpa!zubbie