NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #16/NN_1992_16.iso/spool/sci/space/10903

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From: [e-mail] (Bill Johnson)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Star Trek Realism
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Date: 29 Jul 92 00:55:39 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (tom) writes:
|> As long as we're on the Star-Trek vs. reality thread, here's a question
|> that used to come up before my housemate Doug said "Shut up and just watch
|> the show!":   When the ship is streaming through space, stars moving past
|> at several per second, how is it that the ship is steadily lit from one
|> side?  What is the source for this light?  It's pretty bad when you aren't
|> even into the actual show, and it's already violating known principles :-)

Much as I enjoy Star Trek, this has always bugged me.  Another thing
which bugs me is the way stars stream rapidly past the ship when they're
traveling within the same star system.  AND the "whoosh" noise you hear
when they're showing the Enterprise (from the outside) cruising through
interstellar space.  AND the way the shuttles bank and turn as if they're
airplanes.  AND the fact that the Enterprise can accelerate at accelerations
which *must* be many multiples of one gravity, with no perceived acceleration
inside the ship, but a phaser hit knocks the crew out of their chairs.
AND...

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