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
Deborah Day said:
Thinking about the voyage of the London set me thinking about what made
the
spaceships go in the future.
There's a real Paging Dr. Freud refueling scene in Gold.
You can just imagine it - all pursuit ships stranded somewhere and Travis having to walk back with an empty can!
In my Sopranos crossover, Dr. Carnellfi has his cognac served to him in a glass from a petrol station because they only have two brandy snifters and Blake and Jenna get those.
The Liberator could recharge itself quite quickly.
Not always--there's that whole business in Duel about the energy banks being drained. -(Y)
From: Dana Shilling dshilling@worldnet.att.net
The Liberator could recharge itself quite quickly.
Not always--there's that whole business in Duel about the energy banks being drained.
There does seem to be the implication that Liberator can recharge itself in flight, maybe through sucking up hydrogen through those gill-like thingies halfway up the hull (though I've read of the Bussard Ramscoop making for a very efficient way of *slowing down* a spacecraft, due to the build up of mass as the ship goes faster and faster. Maybe things work differently in Distort Space). There's also that ring of solar panels immediately behind the gills, though I would expect them to be used while orbiting a star.
I did an article in an early AltaZine outlining my case for Liberator being an asteroid mining vessel rather than a warship but I don't think that one made it to Judith's website.
Neil
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