Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site azure.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!teklds!azure!chrisa 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 Lines: 20 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 -- "Roads? Where we're going we don't need any roads!"