Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site oliven.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!oliveb!oliven!barb From: barb@oliven.UUCP (Barbara Jernigan) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: WHHHHOOOOSSSSHHHH!!!! Message-ID: <395@oliven.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 19:25:34 EDT Article-I.D.: oliven.395 Posted: Wed Aug 21 19:25:34 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 14:36:18 EDT References: <2160@sdcc6.UUCP> <3455@dartvax.UUCP> Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino, Ca Lines: 34 > > 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?) ___________________ ______________\ Barb ___________ | ______ / . / / o .ooo. ./ /. . o@ooo0 .ooooo. .ooooo. .oooo oo..oo oo...ooo ooo..ooo \ .oo oo oooooo oooooo ooo ooo *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?