mraspuzzi@kl2137.DEC (Michael Raspuzzi) (08/16/85)
----- Delivered by TOPS-20 Message Services --- Date: 16 Aug 1985 1445-EDT From: Michael Raspuzzi <MRASPUZZI at KL2137> To: """net.startrek""" at decwrl Loc/MS: "MRO1-2/H22 (Pole H2)" Phone: "DTN 231-4320 (617-467-4320)" Quote: The Human Adventure is just beginning..... Subject: Small inconsistency Message-ID: <"MS11(2411)+GLXLIB5(0)" 12135636994.33.227.76480 at KL2137> In STIII, Kirk goes to warp speed awful close to the solar system wouldn't you say? Never mind the solar system, he was still VERY close to earth. We all remember the TV series, risking warp speed near a body of significant mass would cause the whip-lash effect and hence, back in time (maybe). Comments are welcome. Mike Raspuzzi DEC Software Specialist ARPA: mraspuzzi%kl2137.dec@decwrl.arpa UUCP: decwrl!rhea!kl2137!mraspuzzi --------
brown@utflis.UUCP (Susan Brown) (08/27/85)
In article <3703@decwrl.UUCP> mraspuzzi@kl2137.DEC (Michael Raspuzzi) writes: >In STIII, Kirk goes to warp speed awful close to the solar system >wouldn't you say? Never mind the solar system, he was still VERY >close to earth. We all remember the TV series, risking warp speed >near a body of significant mass would cause the whip-lash effect >and hence, back in time (maybe). Comments are welcome. Good point, Mike. In ST, The Motion Picture, Kirk says, "In order to intercept the intruder at the earliest possible time, we must risk engaging warp drive while still in the solar system." But in the very next line, Decker says "upon leaving the solar system" and the viewscreen has shown the ship pass three planets beyond Jupiter. Peculiar. In several ST novels over the years (including those written by authors of "other" science fiction - let's not get into THAT again) dodging about suns at high warp speeds has been used to make the sun nova - hardly something one would want to risk in an inhabited system. More comments needed. sb
tom@utcsri.UUCP (Tom Nadas) (08/28/85)
We've seen the Enterprise floor it (warp out of planetary orbit) many times. I think what Kirk meant when he talked about risking using warp drive while still in the solar system referred to the fact that the new engines had not yet been tried at warp speed. Ordinarily, their first trial would take place in interstellar space, lest a matter-anti-matter imbalance cause an explosion that could shower antiparticles onto inhabited planets and throughout well-travelled space lanes.