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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
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Posted: Fri Aug  9 15:46:26 1985
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Reply-To: zeke@dartvax.UUCP (Edward M. Zebrowski)
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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!"