Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!dartvax!raiche From: raiche@dartvax.UUCP (George A. Raiche) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Enterprise Gravity (a correction) Message-ID: <3496@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 21:02:07 EDT Article-I.D.: dartvax.3496 Posted: Sun Aug 18 21:02:07 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 14:20:17 EDT References: <849@voder.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 33 > > 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."