I always imagined there was some agreed universal standard of orientation of the ships in Trek (probably the galactic plane) just to stop ship-to-ship encounters looking absurd.
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This is why all ships should be spherically symmetric... or at least rotationally.
ReplyDeleteOliver Hamilton which would be even worse, visually. Imagine every sci-fi you love, only with all the cool starships being differently sized balls.
ReplyDeleteThis is Reality is Unrealistic, my favorite tvtrope.
The Borg were the closest, they had spheres and cubes.
ReplyDeletepaging Winchell Chung :-)
ReplyDeleteThis is the infamous Rockets Are Not Boats fallacy, near the top of my list of most hated scientific inaccuracies.
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Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, pretty much all media SF is guilty.
Of course if you had nothing but spheres and cubes it would look at least as ridiculous as drunken starships... :P
ReplyDeleteI always imagined there was some agreed universal standard of orientation of the ships in Trek (probably the galactic plane) just to stop ship-to-ship encounters looking absurd.
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