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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lee: [QB] Star Trek and Star Wars ships shjould really be disqualified from such a General-Sci-Fi-oriented discussion anyway, because they operate from a different set of physical assumptions. The "reality," of combat especially, would preclude ships interacting at close visual range at near-identical relative velocities. The Discovery may look fragile and near-motionless but in fact it's moving at a great clip (I'm not sure of what speeds Clarke specifies in the book version) and - although not mentioned in the film and likely ignored by the designers, probably because the film had Jupiter as the destination, not a way-station - was intended to use the Jovian upper atmosphere for aerobraking (as Leonov did in the sequel). [/QB][/QUOTE]
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