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Here is a snippet of dialogue from "Who Mourns for Adonais?"
Background Spock: To shoot through. It might also relieve Lieutenant Uhura's communications problem. Take these equations to the nuclear electronics lab. I want them to work on the problem of negating the force field in selected areas. We might generate a strong pinpoint charge of M-rays on some selected wavelenghts and tie them in with the combined output of all our engines.
Questions 1. What is the use of a nuclear electronics lab aboard a starship? 2. Is the nuclear electronics lab one of the 14 science labs on the USS Enterprise NCC-1701? 3. What are M-rays, and do they exist?
Another sets of question from the same episode. Background 1.) When Lt. Uhura is bypassing the communications grid and Cmdr. Spock is speaking with her, there is a bright red circle between them. I haven't been able to place the circle on the bridge. 2.) Capt Kirk mentions a story named the "Cheshire Cat".
Question 1.) What is this circle? 2.) What is the story of the "Cheshire Cat"?
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Well, the cheshire cat probably comes from the character with the same name in "Alice in wonderland"
-------------------- "The Starships of the Federation are the physical, tangible manifestations of Humanity´s stubborn insistence that life does indeed mean something." Spock to Leonard McCoy in "Final Frontier"
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1. Nuclear Electronics makes very little sense in terms of modern phyisics. I wouldn't even want to go out on a limb and speculate what it is.
2. I'd say that the Nuclear Electronics Lab, is part of the Physics Lab and that the Physics Lab is one of the 14 on board. I would say that most of the 14 major labs (Physics, Botany, Zoology, Space Sciences, Social Sciences, etc.) would have specialised labs within them.
3. Nope the don't exist in the real world.
1. No idea. 2. A character in Alice in Wonderland. Famous of vanishing into thin air, it's smile being the last thing to disappear.
-------------------- "My theories appal you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters and you don't like my tie." - The Doctor
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Hmm, okay so it exists, but only in Poland.
"Development of electronic instrumentation for physics experiments. The main area of our interest is the front-end electronics for radiation detectors"
Not really a branch of science at all. The physics department I belonged to would just carry out that work under the overall banner of nuclear physics or possibly solid state physics.
Anyway didn't TOS ships use multitronics not electronics?
(BTW I don't see any reference to Nuclear Electronics on the www.cremat.com site)
-------------------- "My theories appal you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters and you don't like my tie." - The Doctor
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(look at the title.. That's about the only reference )
The closest thing to a 'front end of a radiation detector' seems to be the main deflector. So perhaps the Nuclear Electronics Lab deals with special radiation emissions. Probably part of larger Lab.
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