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Subject: Re: How to fix bad SF
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Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 20:36:51 EDT
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From: ncsu!ftsjmd (Mike Davis)

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There is one segment of a Dr Who episode that has been bothering me for
some time.  Usually Dr Who has imaginitive (sp?) scripts and well thought
stories.  The sf isn't hard core but when they show something it usually
is correct, or good enough that I would allow them "poetic license".
Example: the episode Enlightment, dumb premise, a yacht race in space,
but the explaination of the wind being the solar wind and the gravity
of the planets providing the force to steer against the wind was quite
good.  What gets me is Four to Doomsday, where the Doctor is stranded
in space midway between another space craft and his Tardis.  He pulls
a cricket ball out of his pocket and throws it at the space ship, when
he catches it on the rebound he has the momentum to reach his Tardis.
He should have also gotten some momentum from throwing the ball!!!
If the writers had figured out the solar sailing business I would have
thought they would have figured this out too.

Mike
Davis