Re: Star Trek Teaser Trailer Now Up On The Internets

"Anybody" <anybody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote...
> I would have thought all those "tedious details" would have been the
> navigation / pilot's problem anyway, not the captain's. The captain
> simply needs to say "enter orbit" and the crew take care of the details
> by assuming a "standard" distance unless told otherwise.


The existence of "standard orbit" automatically implies the
existence of "nonstandard" orbits the ship may need to assume
from time to time, even if we never saw it happen onscreen.
If you don't create some sort of shorthand name for those
different types of orbits, then there is no other way for the 
captain to specify any orbit *but* to use the "tedious details."

GeneK