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From: raiche@dartvax.UUCP (George A. Raiche)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Enterprise Gravity (a correction)
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Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 21:02:07 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 18 21:02:07 1985
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> 
>    I must make a correction to an earlier posting, `The Making Of Star Trek'
> was written by Stephen E. Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry, not the individual
> I mentioned earlier.
>    Also, I perused `The Making Of Star Trek' and could find no mention of
> gravity control at all.  Even the Star Fleet Technicle Manual (long out of
> print), which goes into a lot of detail over such things as the navigational
> system and orbital approaches makes no mention of gravity.  There must be
> some information somewhere.
> 
> ---
> Kevin Thompson   {ucbvax,ihnp4!nsc}!voder!kevin
> 
> "It's a sort of threat, you see.  I've never been very good at them
>   myself but I'm told they can be very effective."

*** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR rubber walls! ***

I believe that in "The World of Star Trek", David Gerrold discusses
why the crew doesn't get turned into  "brown slime" every time
Enterprise goes to warp drive.  He also asks why the gravity never goes
out. It's in the chapters that he's pussing on the series.  I also
seem to recall a discussion of why Enterprise seens to have lots of
power problems, considering the power available from the matter/antimatter
drive.

				George Raiche
				Dept. of Chemistry
				Dartmouth

"Aye, and if my grandmother had wheels she'd be a wagon."