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From: kevin@voder.UUCP (The Last Bugfighter)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: More Dumb Captains, Stupid Viewscreens, and a net.astro Question
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Date: Tue, 28-May-85 18:07:57 EDT
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   Reguarding comments about why Kirk just didn't look out a port during
the Reliant/Enterprise battle in the Mutara nebula,  I never said that
this would give you as good a view as the main viewscreen with all its
computer enhancements etc..., I simply said it would have been better than
what they had, which was nothing!
   Besides, couldn't they have used a telescope?  I assume such mundane
things still exist in the 23rd Century.  It was also commented that the view
wouldn't be very good with out computer enhancement, so why not use some-
thing like a viewer that reads in the infra-red (or whatever wavelength
one uses in a nebula)?  The information could still be computer-processed,
it just would becomming from an optical source as opposed to an electronic
one (like a CCD).
   One question though, just how dense is a nebula?  They may be dense
enough to totally block seeing through from earth, but how dense is one
when you're floating inside it?

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Kevin Thompson   {ucbvax,ihnp4!nsc}!voder!kevin

"It's sort of a threat, you see.  I've never been very good at them
  myself but I'm told they can be very effective."