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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
I mentioned the "fun" aspect of SF before, and I agree the idea is "fun." But when it is proven to be so glaringly inaccurate, sometimes you have to let the "fun" stuff go...
(...says the guy with FTL drives in 4 of his novels and who backs up a Trek movie...)  |
Trek seems subject to less stringent restrictions than other SF.
A friend has written Trek novels, and has friends in NASA. She once asked one about a spacecraft executing an Immelman Turn. The response was that it didn't work that that way in space, and you wouldn't
do an Immelman Turn. "Look, this is for
Star Trek!" she replied, to which the response was "Oh. It's for Star Trek? In that case, you just..."
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Dennis