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From: chrisa@azure.UUCP (Chris Andersen)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: the controls
Message-ID: <350@azure.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 13-Jul-85 01:29:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: azure.350
Posted: Sat Jul 13 01:29:55 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 01:28:46 EDT
References: <1783@aecom.UUCP> <344@ll1.UUCP> <418@moncol.UUCP>
Reply-To: chrisa@azure.UUCP (Chris Andersen)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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Summary: 

In article <418@moncol.UUCP> john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer) writes:
>]From: erosenth@aecom.UUCP (Elazar Rosenthal)
>]Message-ID: <1783@aecom.UUCP>
>]Organization: Albert Einstein Coll. of Med., NY
>]
>]I always liked the idea that the controls where not labled or "modernized"
>]otherwize they would become dated . (rember the led watches in Battlestar)
>
>Too late, look at the ship's chronometer. It is a MECHANICAL digital clock.
>(There is a great shot of it in "The Naked Time".)

That's another thing, when the Enterprise travelled through time (like 
in 'The Naked Time'), what did the chronometer use as a reference when it
started going backwards?  Perhaps they've discovered absolute time by the 23rd
Century.

Chris Andersen

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