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Don't be dense. He's talking about the travel pods that were seen to slow down and stop when Spacedock lost power... If the interior of Spacedock is a vacuum, they should have continued at the same speed at which they were travelling when they lost power, and run into whichever wall was in the way of their last vector at several tens of kilometers per hour.
The larger ships are indeed moving along with Spacedock, and are indeed motionless relative to that frame of reference... but he wasn't talking about them.
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Perhaps craft intended to be used within Spacedock are equipped with some sort of emergency deceleration procedure. When the pods registered a loss of power they instantly squeezed the last remaining seconds worth into the thrusters, stopping the craft in relation to the dock.
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Well, it's certainly better than losing molecular cohesion, vaporizing, and blowing away in the wind, isn't it?
Vessels already in motion wrt Spacedock are a different matter entirely, of course. But Simon's explanation sounds as plausible as anything...
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...it maybe a bit late now...but i reckon that we should take 'canon' to be wat is in the final version of the script..
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Didn't someone mention a few weeks ago, that he has TNG and DS9 scripts? I'd like to see them.
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1) spacedock and pod in orbit, pod on landing pad. They're at the same speed.
then) spacedock in orbit, pod takes off landing pad. The pod's speed in relation to spacedock and earth has changed... but I get the feeling that the pod is in orbit still just like spacedock. Thus the only concern is the speed difference between the pod and spacedock.
This is like a person jumping in an airplane. You don't fly back and go splat [unless of course the plane suddenly fires some type of rockets while you're in mid-air].
So, as long as spacedock was in a stable orbit before the pod took off, and remained in the stable orbit until power was shut off on the pod--- the pod will hit the wall at a speed relative to it's movement in spacedock. I don't think the the crash would be worse than a car accident [I haven't measured the vessel's speed onscreen though].
And if the pod just suddenly stopped, then maybe it was using a subspace or gravity drive instead of plain ole RCS.
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I have TNG and DS9 scripts. Cost me $50 for two CD-ROMS
Nowadays, however, you can buy both CDs and the Encyclopedia CD, along with Star Trek Borg (I believe I have this right) for only $20 in a gift-pack. Check your local computer stores.
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I don't think I can buy them in Austria. Maybe I can order them at Amazon.
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If the travel pods and whatnot operate by means of intertial control rather than reaction control, then shutting off power could restore the inertia to normal and slow the speed to balance the equations.
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