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    Just How Big Is the Enterprise's Viewscreen?

    Samsung LCD to Enable Bigger, Sharper Viewscreens on Digital Cameras

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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/06/09

    In reply to Just How Big Is the Enterprise's Viewscreen?
    did anyone else notice it seems to be the only viewscreen that captures the top of the ship was well? camera appears to be fixed up top instead of up front. with that -- can they rotate the camera around to view 360 degrees?
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    Image of bonedog73 bonedog73
    05/06/09

    @You gonna eat that?_Nick: That's what I'm thinking but it also makes it easy to take down the Enterprise, one hit to that camera and it's game over..
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    Image of TheCrudMan TheCrudMan
    05/06/09

    @bonedog73:

    You don't even need a camera...you can do it all with sensors, the viewscreen is a luxury. Anyway, these magical sensors are what supply the screen anyway, not cameras as we now think of them.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/06/09

    @TheCrudMan: well, i wouldn't call it a luxury. you need the screen for video conferencing.
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    Image of frigg frigg
    05/06/09

    In reply to Just How Big Is the Enterprise's Viewscreen?
    If your ship has a holodeck, wouldn't the idea of a fixed screen modeled after the set of Wolf Bllitzer's "The Situation Room" be... anachronistic?
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    Image of General Halfshaftery General Halfshaftery
    05/06/09

    In reply to Just How Big Is the Enterprise's Viewscreen?
    26 feet wide? Cripes, how many stuck pixels would it take on that thing before the manufacturer replaces it.. in the future of course.
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    Image of ImTheGarbageman ImTheGarbageman
    05/06/09

    @General Halfshaftery:

    In the future, there will be no stuck pixels.
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    Image of alphanumeric1971 alphanumeric1971
    05/06/09

    @ImTheGarbageman: Now that you mentio it, I never noticed that no matter how badly the enterprise got damaged, nothing ever seemed to happen to the bridge display!


    They shoulda just made the entire ship outta that!

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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    05/06/09

    @alphanumeric1971: Make the entire ship out of hologram? Great idea!
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    Image of russdanger russdanger
    05/06/09

    In reply to Just How Big Is the Enterprise's Viewscreen?
    More lens-flare!
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    05/06/09

    @russdanger: Hundreds of years into the future, and they still can't fix the glare problem.
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    Image of Mac the Tard Mac the Tard
    05/06/09

    In reply to Just How Big Is the Enterprise's Viewscreen?
    Why don't they just wear goggles that simulate a Mega Wide Screen?
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    05/06/09

    @bleuray vs. honeydijondvd: Deep Space 9 - the Jem Hardar Ships used something like that to look round the entire ship.
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    Image of victorkruger victorkruger
    05/06/09

    In reply to Just How Big Is the Enterprise's Viewscreen?
    but why stop at a ring of a viewscreen, why not make it a view dome? since you are floating in space you need total 360 view to see what's below you and what is above you.


    Maybe they'll reserve that for the neo-star trek voyager....

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    Image of crackblind crackblind
    05/06/09

    @victorkruger: You know, I never understand why all the ships seem to fly on the same plane. Did the Enterprise ever approach a ship that was flying upside down from its perspective?
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    05/06/09

    @crackblind: Tactical reasons. Because armaments such as phasers are placed along a certain plane, it would be more advantageous to align the ship with the other ship's attack plane. You could have a non-planar ship too, I suppose, but that would make the ship very impractical and unnatural.
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