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From: barb@oliven.UUCP (Barbara Jernigan)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: WHHHHOOOOSSSSHHHH!!!!
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Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 19:25:34 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 21 19:25:34 1985
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> 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.  
>

   It also has to do with point of reference.  To be completely accurate,
   all the discovered aliens in the galaxy shouldn't speak American English,
   either.  But the creators must use tools in the common viewer's (as which, I
   doubt, we classify) experience.  Ergo, ships speeding by make WHOOSHING
   sounds, phasers go zing, and the gravity field of the ship gets real 
   finicky when there are nearby (or even not so nearby) explosions.

   Admittedly, WE know better -- so it's good for a few laughs.  After all,
   Star Trek was created for the popular audience, not we specialists --
   which makes it the more remarkable.  On the other hand (and off the
   force field around the galaxy*) won't WE be surprised when, passed by a 
   starship, say four hundred years from now, it goes WHOOSH?  So much for 
   speculation.  (Ain't it fun?)

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   *Speaking of the force field around the galaxy, anybody out there 
    have a pseudo-explanation why it's a RING rather than a sphere-edge?
    I mean, going by the way it was represented, why didn't they just go
    around it????  Huh?  Huh?