Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utflis.UUCP
Path: utzoo!utcsri!utai!utflis!brown
From: brown@utflis.UUCP (Susan Brown)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Small inconsistency
Message-ID: <254@utflis.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 10:16:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: utflis.254
Posted: Tue Aug 27 10:16:30 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 27-Aug-85 12:43:21 EDT
References: <3703@decwrl.UUCP>
Reply-To: brown@utflis.UUCP (Susan Brown)
Organization: FLIS, University of Toronto
Lines: 17
Summary: 

In article <3703@decwrl.UUCP> mraspuzzi@kl2137.DEC (Michael Raspuzzi) writes:
>In STIII, Kirk goes to warp speed awful close to the solar system
>wouldn't you say? Never mind the solar system, he was still VERY
>close to earth. We all remember the TV series, risking warp speed
>near a body of significant mass would cause the whip-lash effect
>and hence, back in time (maybe). Comments are welcome.

Good point, Mike.  In ST, The Motion Picture, Kirk says, "In order to 
intercept the intruder at the earliest possible time, we must risk engaging
warp drive while still in the solar system."  But in the very next line,
Decker says "upon leaving the solar system" and the viewscreen has shown
the ship pass three planets beyond Jupiter.  Peculiar.  In several ST
novels over the years (including those written by authors of "other"  
science fiction - let's not get into THAT again) dodging about suns at
high warp speeds has been used to make the sun nova - hardly something
one would want to risk in an inhabited system. More comments needed.
sb