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From: brown@utflis.UUCP (Susan Brown)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: WHHHHOOOOSSSSHHHH!!!!
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Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 12:54:21 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 31 12:54:21 1985
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In article <2160@sdcc6.UUCP> ix925@sdcc6.UUCP (Steve Lau) writes:
>   Okay everyone, here's a challenge. Everybody knows
>sound doesn't travel through space and therefore
>outside space scenes shouldn't make any noise, but we
>all have seen scenes from sci-fi where the spacecraft
>makes a whooshing noise as they go by. My challenge to
>you is this...
>      Has anyone seen a space scene in Star Trek 
>      where they have noise? I haven't. The only
>      blatant misuse, of course, is in the opening
>      credits, but during the show, things in space
>      are silent. Yes, sometimes you do hear the
>      Enterprise hum a bit, but that could be taken
>      as an internal sound that you hear from inside
>      the ship, not like the "whooshes" and "boooms"
>      of Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica. Did they
>      do this on purpose when they created Star Trek
>      or was it just cheaper? (!!)The movies don't
>      seem to follow the traditon. You hear booms
>      and whooshes everywhere. Anyone have any
>      explanations?
>		      Steve Lau
>      
I have read that most recently, in ST III, there was considerable 
discussion about whether Excelsior should make all that racket grinding
to a halt, and they decided to go for the big laugh instead of accuracy.
Probably this decision was taken in the other movies too.
sb