This email was delivered to you by The Free Internet, a Business Online Group company. http://www.thefreeinternet.net --------------------------------------------------------------- Thinking about the voyage of the London set me thinking about what made the spaceships go in the future. It seems the Liberator was different - the alien in Sarcophagus said that it could go indefinitely by recharging itself (on what?), but we do not hear about this with the Federation ships. I presume they do not use some type of petrol, as they would keep running out in the middle of a battle. You can just imagine it - all pursuit ships stranded somewhere and Travis having to walk back with an empty can! So they must also have either had some sort of recharge facility, or else refueling tankers every so often. I guess the London being a much slower type of ship hardly used any juice of whatever sort, but you can hardly imagine Servalan putting up with an 8 month trip - she seemd to be jetting about all over the place. It can't have been some sort of drawing energy directly from vacuum as that would imply limitless energy, but you never hear of any of the ships either refuelling or doing anything similar. The Liberator could recharge itself quite quickly.
Debbie