Andrew

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Okay, so why is it that if Space Command is a rotating space station (or

series of stations, as has been suggested), the view out of Servalan's window is always static?

Oh, this is an apposite question to me, because I am just wrestling with the same issue in a story I am writing (non B7). In this there are two human cultures in space, one of which has artificial gravity, and the other does not. There are a lot of knock-on effects.

The Liberator appears to have artificial gravity, but that could be Alta technology. The pursuit ships seem to have it too, and they are Federation. The scientific research station (forget name) in 'Breakdown' doesn't spin does it? I'm blanking out on Space Command. Are we sure it spins?

I think that if you have artificial gravity you can get by with much lower tech in respect of everything else that you do. Also you can use artificial gravity in a kind of hand-waving way to get round various scientific and logical anomalies, on the basis that you can prove anything once you have believed one impossible thing before breakfast. So I'd always go for space-and-time warping and artificial gravity as one big package that lets you close your eyes to a lot of the illogical plot stuff in B7.

Alison

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