2007-03-27 04:39:36 · 5 answers · asked by PT109 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
It's television. This category is for real life science. Scotty, beam this guy up!
2007-03-27 04:47:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
While I'm not as proficient as Cmdr. Spock or Lt Cmdr. Scott, the ship's gravity falls under the life support systems, regulated by the ship's computer. All the life support energy is sustained via the ship's engineering section, through the matter/antimatter crystals which is the fuel.
2007-03-27 11:49:05 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was only addressed once, in an early episode of Enterprise, when the gravity malfunctions while Capt Archer is in the shower and he calls Tripp in Engineering and tells him to get it together.....as the other poster said, its tied to inertia dampening so you don't get plastered against the aft bulkhead when accelerating from rest to > 186,000 miles per second...it's one of those technical underpinnings to the Star Trek universe that Roddenberry and Berman and all of them decided not to get into too deeply so the shows didn't bog down in techno-jargon......for example, how DO the warp drive engines work? Yes I know matter/anti matter annihilation........but what does that do,,,,,,where are you when you're in warp drive etc etc etc............
2007-03-28 09:05:45 · answer #3 · answered by yankee_sailor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I'm not mistaken, it has something to do with the 'Dampening Systems'. I think they're one in the same. It's what also prevents them from becoming putty on the wall when the ship travels in space.
2007-03-27 11:49:20 · answer #4 · answered by AJD 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it was addressed in DS9 but I only saw a part of the episode.
2007-03-27 11:45:53 · answer #5 · answered by Vacationer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋