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From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: the controls
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Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 14:14:54 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 11 14:14:54 1985
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]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".)

By the way, the labelling problem seems to have been licked by the time of
the second movie. Take a good close look when Kahn is searching the
Reliant's controls looking for the override.

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