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colin
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Background
In the last three years, there have been three sci-fi movies or series where a crew member controlled a ship with a joy stick. They are: Galaxy Quest, Farscape, and Insurrection.

Enterprise
Enterprise is now joining this group. Along with the joy stick, we have a steering wheel.

"Steady and straight"-Capt. Archer

Source: TrekToday


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Hobbes
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Helm: "Watch me fishtail this bitch Cap'n!"

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Siegfried
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Where's the picture of the steering wheel?
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colin
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The steering wheel was seen by visitors to the set of the bridge yesterday.
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TSN
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In the past fifty years, there have been probably hundreds of sci-fi shows and movies that involve a spaceship of some sort. Uh-oh. ENT has one of those. Damn them!
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The Mighty Monkey of Mim
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But TSN, even you have to admit that the joystick in Insurrection was just plain dumb, and a steering wheel is...even more so.

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The_Tom
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Well, Enterprise has both, so that makes it double-dumb...

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TSN
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The joystick in Insurrection was dumb because it was nothing but a store-bought computer joystick, and it just popped straight up out of the floor on a four-foot-tall pedestal. There was nothing wrong w/ the joystick in Galaxy Quest, though.

Besides, joysticks and steering wheels are useful means of navigation. That's why we use them. As long as they don't look goofy (like in Insurrection), I don't see the problem.


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Yah, I mean what the heck was up with that? Did the Writers and Executives go to the special effects department and say we need a joystick for the enterprise in "Insurection", what do you got? Then the SFX guys looked aroud blankly for a second or two. Then one got a flash of insight. "I got a great stick for ya, use it every night on my own pc, ill bring it over tomorow." And thus stupidity found a home! If you want to use a joystick (silly, but fine by me) at least attempt to modify it a bit. Maby it was a product plug, like some movies get paid money by cola companies to use their product in the movie. Still silly though.

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Siegfried
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I'm still trying to figure out the need for a steering wheel, though. I mean, it can be of some use for sublight speeds and thruster maneuvers, but at warp speed that's not a very useful device. Accidentally bump into the damn thing and the ship warps into a sun. Plus, the only real way I can see this steering wheel being useless at sublight speed is if it has an airplane's steering control; you know, turns left and right and pulls in and out.

By the way, Hobbes, that is one of the funniest things I've read all night.

[ July 17, 2001: Message edited by: Siegfried ]


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Aban Rune
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Hobbes: ROTFLMAO!!

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Dukhat
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Hopefully the steering wheel will be just a Tom Paris/Delta Flyer type gadget that serves no purpose except for just set decoration.

And once the gimmick wears off, it'll probably be gone after a few episodes (hopefully along with Porthos).

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Omega
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Don't forget Andromeda. It has joysticks.

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Fabrux
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And Chang's ship from TUC. It had a steering wheel.

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OnToMars
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And Starship Troopers had a 747 style wheel/joystick controller thinger, IIRC

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