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Posted by targetemployee (Member # 217) on :

Here is a snippet of dialogue from "Who Mourns for Adonais?"

Background
Spock: To shoot through. It might also relieve Lieutenant Uhura's communications problem. Take these equations to the nuclear electronics lab. I want them to work on the problem of negating the force field in selected areas. We might generate a strong pinpoint charge of M-rays on some selected wavelenghts and tie them in with the combined output of all our engines.

Questions
1. What is the use of a nuclear electronics lab aboard a starship?
2. Is the nuclear electronics lab one of the 14 science labs on the USS Enterprise NCC-1701?
3. What are M-rays, and do they exist?

Another sets of question from the same episode.
Background
1.) When Lt. Uhura is bypassing the communications grid and Cmdr. Spock is speaking with her, there is a bright red circle between them. I haven't been able to place the circle on the bridge.
2.) Capt Kirk mentions a story named the "Cheshire Cat".

Question
1.) What is this circle?
2.) What is the story of the "Cheshire Cat"?

Posted by pIn'a' Sov (Member # 293) on :

Well, the cheshire cat probably comes from the character with the same name in "Alice in wonderland"

Posted by Identity Crisis (Member # 67) on :

1. Nuclear Electronics makes very little sense in terms of modern phyisics. I wouldn't even want to go out on a limb and speculate what it is.

2. I'd say that the Nuclear Electronics Lab, is part of the Physics Lab and that the Physics Lab is one of the 14 on board. I would say that most of the 14 major labs (Physics, Botany, Zoology, Space Sciences, Social Sciences, etc.) would have specialised labs within them.

3. Nope the don't exist in the real world.

1. No idea.
2. A character in Alice in Wonderland. Famous of vanishing into thin air, it's smile being the last thing to disappear.

Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :

Nuclear Electronics *does* exist:
http://www.ftj.agh.edu.pl/wfitj/english/departments/done.htm

Amazingly (or not), this science does deal with radiation. (www.cremat.com)

Posted by Identity Crisis (Member # 67) on :

Hmm, okay so it exists, but only in Poland.

"Development of electronic instrumentation for physics experiments. The main area of our interest is the front-end electronics for radiation detectors"

Not really a branch of science at all. The physics department I belonged to would just carry out that work under the overall banner of nuclear physics or possibly solid state physics.

Anyway didn't TOS ships use multitronics not electronics?

(BTW I don't see any reference to Nuclear Electronics on the www.cremat.com site)

Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :

(look at the title.. That's about the only reference

)

The closest thing to a 'front end of a radiation detector' seems to be the main deflector. So perhaps the Nuclear Electronics Lab deals with special radiation emissions. Probably part of larger Lab.

Posted by Treknophyle (Member # 509) on :

Damn, damn, damn.

When I was researching to create the 1701 deck plans, I searched high and low for enough science specialities to fill up lab space.

Now I find out there was a 'Nuclear Electronics lab"????

What the hell is nuclear electronics?