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Just something I read off the wall behind Khan in Star Trek II, while he's about to put the critter into Chekov's ear. Has this been known?
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Christ, and it's not even season hiatus yet. What thrills will we have to look forward to then? A comparative analysis of the number of stars seen in any particular space scene, throughout the history of Trek? Waste reclamation systems of the Sequoia-class starship? Learned discussions as to what the joke symbols on Okudagrams - the duck, the DC-3, the Porsche - might actually represent on a MSD?
I mean, so what? A frelling cargo ship has a bay that's about two metres by four metres by 5 metres? Wow.
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Don't know why that is Boris... 310 is practically heading away from the galactic core [directly towards is 0* mark 0*, directly away on horizontal is 360* mark 0*, vertical it's 0* mark 360*]. But 37's is a Voyager show, shouldn't they be heading 47* mark 0* [ok, so I had to use 47 ]. Just enough to skirt the edge of the galactic core?
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Perhaps I'm confusing the two, but as per the TNG tech manual, a heading is calculated based on the ship's current position in space. That is, a heading of 310 mark 215 would turn the ship 310 degrees from its present direction on the horizontal access, and 215 from the vertical access.
What you're describing, I believe, is a bearing.
Of course, I suspect that the two terms are used largely interchangably, but that's what the manual said, and what presumably existed in a writer's bible, long ago.
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I don't know if it's been known or not, Boris, but I actually just noticed this a little while ago when TNN ran The Wrath of Khan. Of course, I seem to be a bit slow about noticing the details of the sets. I also found with that same viewing that the Reliant bridge only had one turbolift.
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even though i have watched Wrath of Khan several times a year for the past 15 years (wow i feel old).. i find that im noticing a lot of this i never saw before.. a lot of the dynamics of the real-life feelings of the situations escaped me, since i was so young (only 6! i cried when spock died!), so i notice new stuff all the time. I also never quite grasped the differences in Reliant's bridge. The other day i noticed how the blood on Kirk's tunic moves around between scenes, or the names of the books on Khan's shelf. or wondering what the hell the guy was vacuuming up behind kirk and spock.
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Actually, I don't know if any of the reference works have gotten it right. 'Heading' is the direction of ship's travel relative to some outside reference. 'Bearing' is pinpointing something relative to ship's direction of travel.
That is you would set course heading 240 mark 5 to go from Earth to Bajor, say, but then alter course along the way to intercept that Breen ship at bearing 347 mark 315.
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