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From: zubbie@ihlpa.UUCP (Jeanette Zobjeck)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re:sideways planets
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Date: Thu, 2-May-85 13:42:05 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  2 13:42:05 1985
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> >From: dr37@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Joanna Bryson)
> >Organization: U. Chicago - Computation Center
> >Message-ID: <364@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
> >
> >I've always assumed the view screen wasn't a window, but a visual representation
> >of what the scanners are picking up.  After all, what is it made of, glass? ...
> 
> Obviously, it's not a window, but a video screen. The question remains,
> however, is why does it show a view which contradicts the exterior shots of
> the Enterprise?
> 
> If you were designing such a scanner (screen), would you "correct" it so
> that the planet always appeared on the bottom? It might make for nicer
> esthetics or "human design factors", but I would find it hard to trust it
> to be reliable, particularly in a crisis situation where I don't want a
> bridge crew having to take the split second to re-orient the screen in
> their minds.
> 
> 
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Also obvioiusly the view can be of any point of the globe of space
which the command crew desires, this means they might have it showing
the area of the world **below** which is generally where a beam dowm might
be targeted, in which case there would be intense interest in the 
psycological sight of the adventure. If that happened to be such as 
to place the globe of the planet at the bottom of the scanner so be it.

Besides (again) 2 dimensional minds of novice viewers would find anything 
else confusing and would diminish the intended scale of the size and
distance effects the producers were searching for.

jeanette l. zobjeck
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