Timeline for Starship Enterprise: Always flying left-to-right?
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| May 5, 2021 at 20:04 | comment | added | nurettin | @PaulSinclair I know, I wrote a master's thesis on a similar subject. But it is subjective nevertheless. | |
| May 5, 2021 at 19:54 | comment | added | Paul Sinclair | @nurettin - The left-to-right for progress & right-to-left for setbacks is a well-known and widely utilized paradigm in the entertainment industry. You can find numerous references to it. It would be quite surprising if the Star Trek production team had not considered it when designing the prop. | |
| May 5, 2021 at 19:42 | comment | added | nurettin | @MJ713 there is no contradiction, but it may well be a coincidence. It is just a subjective evalution. | |
| May 5, 2021 at 17:52 | comment | added | Bobson | It might be worth adding a reference to the other answer here, or at least something along the lines of "They chose to fly from left to right because...". Just to make it explicit how this mental bias would have led to the setup that got built. | |
| May 5, 2021 at 17:14 | comment | added | MJ713 | @MatthewWhited And why did they decide to put the cables on that side of the model, instead of the other side? There's no contradiction between their explanation and your explanation. | |
| May 5, 2021 at 13:34 | comment | added | Matthew Whited | This isn't the case at all. The fact of the matter is only one side of the ship was fully detailed. The other had cables for lighting hanging out of it. | |
| May 3, 2021 at 10:49 | history | answered | Henning Kockerbeck | CC BY-SA 4.0 |