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From: marcum@sun.uucp (Alan Marcum)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Enterprise Gravity
Message-ID: <2643@sun.uucp>
Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 11:01:19 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 15 11:01:19 1985
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Reply-To: marcum@sun.UUCP (Alan M. Marcum)
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Keywords: artificial gravity
Summary: Constraints of television

In article <2672@ut-sally.UUCP> barnett@ut-sally.UUCP (Lewis Barnett) writes:
>Just as they moved into the barrier, he said, "Gravitation on
>automatic."  A bit later, one of the damage reports was, "Gravitation
>down to 0.8." ...
>                 ... And, even better, in all the times we've
>seen the Enterprise badly damaged isn't it funny that the
>gravity never goes out?

This is probably one we can attribute to the impact of doing a television
series -- especially at that time, and with the budget constraints Gene and
company had.  Imagine the cost and production difficulties of having the
entire bridge crew floating a few feet above the deck!

I agree, though, that in the "real" Star Trek universe, the designers would
have planned for that.
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Alan M. Marcum			Sun Microsystems, Mountain View, California
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