Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!dartvax!zeke From: zeke@dartvax.UUCP (Edward M. Zebrowski) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: WHHHHOOOOSSSSHHHH!!!! Message-ID: <3455@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 15:46:26 EDT Article-I.D.: dartvax.3455 Posted: Fri Aug 9 15:46:26 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 08:26:56 EDT References: <2160@sdcc6.UUCP> Reply-To: zeke@dartvax.UUCP (Edward M. Zebrowski) Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 33 In article <2160@sdcc6.UUCP> ix925@sdcc6.UUCP (Steve Lau) writes: > > Okay everyone, here's a challenge. Everybody knows >sound doesn't travel through space and therefore >outside space scenes shouldn't make any noise, but we >all have seen scenes from sci-fi where the spacecraft >makes a whooshing noise as they go by. My challenge to >you is this... > Has anyone seen a space scene in Star Trek > where they have noise? I haven't. The only > blatant misuse, of course, is in the opening > credits, but during the show, things in space > are silent. Yes, sometimes you do hear the > Enterprise hum a bit, but that could be taken > as an internal sound that you hear from inside > the ship, not like the "whooshes" and "boooms" > of Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica. Did they > do this on purpose when they created Star Trek > or was it just cheaper? (!!)The movies don't > seem to follow the traditon. You hear booms > and whooshes everywhere. Anyone have any > explanations? > Apparently they add the sound to enhance the action going on. They think that action without the sound is boring and the public won't like it. I remember reading in one of those "All about Star Trek" books that in certain places they added the "whoosh" sound in the movies for this very reason. Ed Zebrowski "Jim--your name is Jim!"