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They'd have to be pretty advanced cameras to cover that kind of distance with high speed and resolution. Star Trek always called them "visual" or "optical sensors" I believe.
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I always figured the stuff you see on the screen in Trek wasn't actually direct optical imagery, but something created by the computer as a composite of sensor data. For one thing, it's *dark* in space
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Yeah, but, if you're talking about replacing a window with a viewscreen, all you really need is a camera. It can see everything you'd be able to see through the window. More, really, if you can adjust it into the non-visible spectrum.
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Well what I meant by replacing the window with a viewscreen was to replace it with a screen that would show some composite of sensor data. Perhaps not any 'visual' representation, but at lest some kind of large tactical display. You might as well have solid bulkhead as a window on the bridge, is my point. It's probably weaker than the hull and it isn't offering anything except aesthetics (and then only when you're close to a planet).
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Maybe they discovered that people go batshit crazy on spaceships without windows.... Hell even the Asgard ships have them (and I cant see Thor really stargazing from some hallway window).
It gives the audience a sense of scale for the ship() to have windows. Something sorely lacking on designs without them (shadow ships anyone?)
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lol I'm feeling a bit like escallum in my single-minded insistence, but...they can have windows. They can have thousands of windows. I still don't see the point of having a large on that everyone on the bridge faces during tactical situations.
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Yah, that is kind of silly. Especially when people are constantly looking forward like it will tell them exactly what's going on outside. 99% of the action will take place outside their field of vision.
quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Maybe they discovered that people go batshit crazy on spaceships without windows....
You mean like the sailors who serve on submarines?
I think that the Odyssey bridge's window is just a manifestation of Stargate's tendency in recent years to rip off certain elements from Star Trek as blatantly as possible. (For example, beaming, tricorders, sensors, and so forth.) They just decided to put the bridge in an exposed position just like every other Starfleet ship...
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Y'know, I considered the whole submarine angle and rejected it- the crew of the Daedalus class ships seem kinda....candyass? I mean, check out the quarters shown on Unending- a faaaar cry from "hotracking" on a sub. Lots of folks recruited from the civillian sector serve in Stargate Command- all it takes is for one twitch to open an airlock to ruin an otherwise routine mission to get killed by the Ori toilet-ships.
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I liked Caldwell's line about trying to remove Solitaire from the Daedalus's computers, but the crew kept putting them back. I *assume* he meant the terminals for private use. If they were putting them on the bridge computers...
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