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From: gts@wjh12.UUCP (G. T. Samson)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Viewscreens
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Date: Wed, 1-May-85 19:25:20 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  1 19:25:20 1985
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> 
> People have been calling the viewscreens "windows" or "crts from different
> cameras around the ship."  Well, this can't be.  The Enterprise is moving
> at trans light speeds.  Disregarding the possibility of moving at such
> speeds, how are normal 'video cameras' going to function at such speeds?
> Any image would be highly distorted and probably obsolete by the time a
> human eye could see it.
Well, whatever WEAPONS they're using probably have the same problems, right?
If the phasers move at lightspeed (and not through whateverspace as I've
assumed from the phaser scene in Wink Of An Eye), then since the eye couldn't
see the motion in time, neither could an attempted phaser strike hit the
ship.

> A more reasonable devise would be a tactical map using the sensors.
> A one dimentional view of three dimentional space doesn't seem to be the
> best way to determine what is around you.  Maybe this is why Saavik is so
> easily ambushed in the KM test.
> 
> 	Kevin Chu
> 	Computer Center @ UC Davis
> 	...ucbvax!ucdavis!vega!ccs020
> 

They DID indeed use a tactical map.  But that wasn't as interesting to look
at, was it?  (I love the way the new photon torpedoes scintillate...)

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