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From: ix925@sdcc6.UUCP (Steve Lau)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: The controls
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Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 03:02:57 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 10 03:02:57 1985
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Organization: U.C. San Diego, Academic Computer Center
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	Has anyone noticed the LACK of controls 
on board the Enterprise? For such a complex ship, you
would think that there would be a lot more controls
then they have. My only explanation for this and for
the lack of labels is that maybe the controls had more
then one use. When in flight between planets, there
would be no need for controls to run short range
planet scanners or atmosphere readings or
"dyno-scanners." I say that instead of taking up so
much room, they would automatically switch the same
controls to stuff like monitoring navigation, warp
engines etc. If they did label them, it would be
confusing and would take up a lot of space. 
     This still doesn't explain how everyone could run
the ship, but remember, the people running the
Enterprise are highly intelligent. Maybe they are
forced to learn all the controls. It's a
semi-military enviorment and they could be easily trained.

                 Steve Lau
    		 UCSD Academic Computing Center
		 

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