Heiny.henr@XEROX.ARPA (06/10/84)
From: Chris Heiny <Heiny.henr@XEROX.ARPA> 'It's amazing how the enterprise can film everything that is going on even during the most critical battle situations (that is when you would want to see everything isn't it?). Maybe 1984 is only 300 years away as it is in ST III?' Perhaps there are recorders not unlike the "black boxes" found on commercial airplanes. They'd cover critical areas like the bridge, engine room, weapons control, etc. If you run an endless tape (say 2 hours on Enterprise. It's about 30 minutes on airliners), you will constantly overwrite the normal, uninteresting stuff. When something interesting occurs (like a space battle, or running into a star, or someone jumping into the engines), you remove the tape for the records. Hail Eris, Chris