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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by AndrewR: [qb] Very nice work. Just something - the position of the windows in the 'tower' made me wonder if there was a gravity system. Then I thought about The Botany Bay - Did Kahn's ship have gravity in Space Seed? Does this then meen?mean? by the 1990's they had artificial gravity? Andrew [/qb][/QUOTE]Yes this is a sticky problem indeed. The Botany Bay did indeed have gravity when Kirk & co beamed over, now you can look at this in two ways; 1 - Scotty beamed over a gravity generator ahead of the away team so they wouldn't have the inconvenience of a zero-G environment. 2 - The Botany Bay had it's own gravity generator/plating, something far in advance of the level of technology available at the end of the 20th century...not that they knew that back in the 60's. For me the second option seams the most inviting, especially given that the design of Botany Bay set certainly didn't look like the inside of a zero gravity ship. In actuality it looks exactly like a room that people are meant to walk through instead of float. What I consider a fair explanation of how a gravity generator found it's way onboard such an old ship is that it was invented by Khan and/or those 80 or so super geniuses who were frozen aboard. Indeed the cryo freezers and ship itself is apparently far too advanced a technology so you could propose that the entire ship was designed by these people and most of it's advanced secrets were lost when they fled earth, which is why later ships such as the Aries IV were apparently less advanced. So, to answer your question no, I don't believe this DY-300 had gravity since Khan and his followers took all of their knowledge with them, leaving only a construction company and a set of structural blueprints. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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