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From: root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith)
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Subject: Re: I 'tink I'm going to be spacesick
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Date: Mon, 6-May-85 16:33:59 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  6 16:33:59 1985
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> 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.
> 
> Does anyone care to even try to explain this one?

Easy.  The viewscreen has MANY cameras hooked into it... one aft, one
starboard, one port (the one that always points at the planet they are
orbiting) and so forth.  Recall in one of the episodes that Kirk has
Sulu give him a look aft by switching to the viewscreen aft.
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