Star Trek: Balance of Terror: DD vs Sub
 

Just watched the original series episode of Star Trk called Balance of Terror. The Enterprise encounters a Romulan ship that just destroyed a Federation Outpost. The Romulan ship can cloak (submerge).

SOme of the corny things related to ASW that made me laugh:

- While the Enterprise waits quietly for the Warbird to run out of energy and decloak, Spock asks for permission to fix some equipment. Kirk says "To work quietly" as if sound can carry through space.
- The Enterprise fires its phasers at the aproximate location of the warbird similar to depth charges
- The warbird commander moves his ship into the tail of a comet without thinking about the fact that this would make him visible.
- The warbird commander jetisons debrie and bodies to try and fool the Enterprise that the warbird was destroyed.
- Kirk orders the Enterprise crew to monitor for the attempt of the warbird to "slip away under us" (In space?)
- The warbird jetisons a nuclear warhead in the path of the Enterprise which was narrowly avoided when Spock recognised it as a trap.

These are just some goofy things I observed. If you get a chance watch the episode and see it from a submarine view.

did you notice that part where people were engaging in combat in outer space in futuristic flying battleships and that they had teleport systems, photon guns, and alien species amongst their ranks? That was pretty crazy too.

I recognized the story when I first saw it - first-run back in the sixties.

It's called The Enemy Below:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050356/

Did you ever notice that in the original Star Trek series, any time the Enterprise was "disabled" in battle, it always tilted... Tilting in space?

you have to remember when the original series camer out they didnt have full time scientists working with the producers to get it all right and in the 60s how much did we really know about space?

yes we did but we also didnt know about inflation the big bang black holes quasars the list is endless

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed Star Trek when it first came out when I was a kid.

I just have to remember that science is sometimes "overlooked" for the sake of entertainment.

I can recall my brother pissed at me for "questioning" how the X-Wings and TIE fighters in Star Wars could fly like atmospheric aircraft in the vacumn of space. He was adamant that it could happen.

I guess you have to "dumb down" physics or the general audience would not get it.

It wasn't tilting, it was listing...filling up with...um...

LUDDITE!

I could just imagine Kirk ordering "Counter flood damnit, counter flood!"

Don't laugh. In the episode there is a scene where the weapon control room is "flooding" with some kind of gas (water?) and Spock runs in to save the crew trapped in the compartment and fires the weapons..

Shatners Ego ;)

The galaxy would not be big enough

OH NO! We are taking on ...ego!

http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/8454/elistza0.jpg

Tilting is to help you visualize the fact the Enterprise is not in a healthy state! Now quit ruining it for me! :D