Another one of my pointless nitpicks. The Badges and ship diagrams have an ISA logo on them, yet Chakotay refered to them as "NASA" wouldn't it be "ISA" (international space administration).
Actually, Chakotay could be quite correct, and so could the screens and stickers and patches and whatnot with the ISA logo.
In TNG "The Royale", we learn that NASA was still up and running in 2037 when it sent a ship outside the solar system. So this ISA apparently is an organization that was created for this Ares mission but did not replace NASA in any way. And NASA might have been the only partner in this ISA that really mattered (at least to Chakotay).
Timo Saloniemi
Posted by Sunspot (Member # 77) on :
On one of the dispalys that is close to the camera on the Ares, there is ISA/NASA or something similar down in the corner in white text.
If I dont go out tonight, then I'll watch it again.
Perhaps ISA being an international collaboration, meant NASA built one mission, ESA another, etc. And the Ares in question constituted NASA's contribution to the overall plan.
Or Commander Chuckles could just have been being Americocentric, (as if he would! )
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Posted by Wes (Member # 212) on :
I didn't think of it that way. NASA being a PART of ISA. Thanks for the input...
Well, now that I've seen the ep, I can comment on this... All Chakotay said was something about NASA's receiving (or lack thereof) a message from the CM. Perhaps the ISA was more of a loose confederation than a single entity, w/ each constituent group still using its own name. In this case, NASA may have had the best monitoring equipment, so they were in charge of sending and receiving messages to and from spacecraft.
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Posted by Galen (Member # 72) on :
Commader Kelly's taped log entries do show ISA/NASA in the lower left corner.
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Posted by Jim Phelps (Member # 102) on :
The actual display reads NASA/ISA 456/54 (I might have transposed the numbers/names). One of the numbers might be a ISA mission designation, the other a NASA number.
Boris
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