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From: Heiny.henr@XEROX.ARPA
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Subject: Re: Shades of 1984 (st III)
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Date: Sun, 10-Jun-84 14:11:26 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 10 14:11:26 1984
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From:  Chris Heiny 

	'It's amazing how the enterprise can film everything that is going on
	even during the most critical battle situations (that is when you would
	want to see everything isn't it?). Maybe 1984 is only 300 years away as
	it is in ST III?'

Perhaps there are recorders not unlike the "black boxes" found on
commercial airplanes.  They'd cover critical areas like the bridge,
engine room, weapons control, etc.  If you run an endless tape (say 2
hours on Enterprise.  It's about 30 minutes on airliners), you will
constantly overwrite the normal, uninteresting stuff.  When something
interesting occurs (like a space battle, or running into a star, or
someone jumping into the engines), you remove the tape for the records.

				Hail Eris,
					Chris