Re: Star Trek Teaser Trailer Now Up On The Internets

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:37:28 GMT, "Kweeg" <kweeg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>> The captain could easily say "Enter orbit" which automatically always
>> means a 'standard' orbit. If he wants an orbit other than 'standard',
>> then he would specifically say so for that ocassion (eg. "Go to low
>> orbit", "Orbit 5bazillion miles out", etc.). Having the word "standard"
>> in there every time is a bit of overkill.
>
>Buzzt... look "Anybody" is wrong again.
>Allot of the writers and production staff were WW2 vets and carried over
>some *actual* military jargon to the show.

>"Standard" orbit is probably a variation of "navalise" where the captain
>might say to the officer of the watch, "come left (to course XXX)
standard
>rudder," to which the OOW would order the helmsman to alter course to
port
>using the "standard" rudder  In allot of cases that would be 15 degrees
of
>rudder (out of 30) sometimes more or less for a particular class of ship.


You claim "Anybody" is wrong on the basis of *this*? Chutzpah there,
Kweeg!   :-)

Anybody's explanation makes infinitely more sense and "standard orbit"
fits perfectly with Star Trek's penchant for using terminology that
*sounded* technical, but was really meaningless. Sure sounds better
than "they picked up the terminology in the Navy", especially when
none of the big brass of Star Trek were Navy veterans (Roddenberry was
Army Air Corps, Coon was a Marine. Justman and Solow never served in
the armed forces.)

Brian