Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!JAFFE From: JAFFE@RUTGERS.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: How to fix bad SF Message-ID: <2596@topaz.ARPA> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 20:36:51 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.2596 Posted: Mon Jul 8 20:36:51 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 10-Jul-85 23:43:34 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 20 From: ncsu!ftsjmd (Mike Davis) <> 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