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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ryan McReynolds: [QB] There was an old [i]Best of Trek[/i] article with an interesting idea about "standard orbit." It supposed that a standard orbit is a powered synchronous orbit at low altitudes. On the shows, the ships are never seen orbiting at synchronous height*, yet they are always within line-of-sight for transporters, communications, the rare orbital bombardment, etc. This is impossible that close to a planet, due to the way that simple orbiting works. In TOS, orbits often "decayed" rapidly when the ship lost power. Why would this happen? Obviously, power was required to keep the ship in its orbit... a "standard orbit" would then be a hovering operation over a certain spot, maybe the capital of an inhabited planet. * Granted, the shows also show the ship visibly moving over the planet's rotation, but this is clearly a visual effects contrivance. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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