Ncc-1701-e
 

Why does it have strobes and what I'm assuming is Star Fleet's equivalent of navigation lights?

Does it matter to me if the strobes are working or the green/red lights are working when something is doing Warp 9.9? No. Why?

BECAUSE THEY ARE FASTER THAN THE LIGHT ITSELF. SO BY THE TIME I SEE THE LIGHT, THEY'VE ALREADY RUN MY SORRY BUTTOCKS OVER!

Sorry, I've been sucked into the world of Trek tonight and can't seem to escape.

Make it so, numbah won! ENGAGE!

-mini

Alas, we are seeing that the FAA buracracy is so slow, they have been unable to remove the FAR about the lights. Also, Capt Picard is still most likely laboring under the old rest rules. :eek:

FAA (or is FSpaceA)
 

don't forget about the SFRA/TFR still in effect for Talos IV

ummmm dude,

everyone in the universe speaks English, but it is the flashing nav lights that you find hard to swallow?

Easily explained away in several episodes, the most notable being the DS9 episode when Quark and his brother and nephew end up flying through a temporal rift and end up as the Roswell aliens of days gone by. Long story short the universal translators installed behind their ears suffered due to the nuclear radiation from the weapons of the time period.

As for the running lights, those are mentioned more than once in space dock and could even be used to prevent collisions with shuttle craft flying in formation, even at warp speeds.







God I miss not having my wife around to keep me from doing this crap.

I thought it was going to be a thread about who was logging PIC, and how many hours they had when they got into those seats.

What sucks is being a shuttle craft FO for 10 years making 20K/year, being away from home for so long, then they raise the retirement age to 95. I'm stuck here forever.

Tough Trek
 

And then your job is outsourced to an alien with Shiny Saucer Syndrome! :mad:

I remember a film from college physics that simulated driving at the speed of light. As you got close to the speed of light, say .9 Warp, the telephone poles along the road appeared to bend. The light reflected from the tops of the poles took longer to get to your eye than that reflected from the bottom, so you were seeing the tops at a different time than the bottoms.

You'll see the shuttle craft where it was, unless it's behind you. Then you'er out running it's lights and reflected light and you won't see it.

What I always think is awesome is seeing Spock in the original series working out some problem on his whiz wheel.