[net.startrek] The reason for mistakes

svw (02/20/83)

 James Doohan (who played Scott) spoke here at MIT a coupla weeks
back; he said that the reasons for all the sciences mistkes and
technical inconsistancies in the show were because the creative
staff (Roddenberry included) had no idea they would be taken to
task. Honestly, if you had a week to produce a show in which
every prop had to be custon made, would YOU have put more than a few moments
thought into where to put an pod-ejection button?

				--- Ensign Applejack Spinelli
 					U.S.S. Yorktown
					Quadrant 13

mat (02/21/83)

	Regarding the pod eject ... here is ONE way it could have been
	done.

	As the Enterprise moves into the storm, the storm changes, and
	the ship is suddenly thrown about in typical ST fashion.
	This time, Kirk is thrown out, and he ends up as the
	person closest to the panel with the EJECT control ...
	while the person who should have been there was across the
	bridge.

	Still not perfect, but in hindsight it is an improvement.