Timeline for Is there a canon explanation for why Star Trek ships bank when turning?
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| May 13, 2020 at 15:42 | comment | added | Sovereign Inquiry | @user11145 The only explanation I think I have is that the RCS thrusters are more powerful on the bottom or top of the ship or are in more abundance in those positions, so it's easier to turn when banking. | |
| Dec 27, 2019 at 19:22 | history | edited | T.J.L. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 24, 2016 at 20:27 | answer | added | Sascha | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 26, 2013 at 8:46 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Feb 21, 2013 at 6:45 | answer | added | jason | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 20, 2013 at 22:20 | answer | added | John Bode | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 22:15 | comment | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | @Solemnity - the problem isn't with "no other answer" answer, it's with how it's framed and how it's backed up. | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 19:56 | comment | added | Solemnity | @DVK Sorry, you're right. Sometimes there isn't an alternative, though. But it may be out there. | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 18:22 | comment | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | @Solemnity - meta.scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/957/… . People usually are smart enough to know the out-of-universe obvious reasons, and aren't seeking that as an answer. | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 17:32 | answer | added | BBlake | timeline score: 16 | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 17:24 | history | edited | user11154 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 19, 2013 at 16:53 | answer | added | Caimen | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 15:15 | answer | added | user11295 | timeline score: 18 | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 13:21 | comment | added | jwenting | to summarise: not everything you see in fiction has an in-world reason. Quite often it's either poorly researched (like this) or done for visual effect (like this) or simply the result of using real earth models and sets in lue of the target universe (like this). | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 6:31 | comment | added | Solemnity | Gene Roddenberry was a B-17E pilot with 80 successful missions. Here's a 'banking' image of such a plane. He wrote TV shows later, and didn't plan for scrutiny. I don't have the balls/rep to answer this one with a 'No, dude. Accept'. | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 4:33 | comment | added | Mark Rogers | Star fleet captains are trained to impress less advanced species by banking. Similar to the Corbomite maneuver. | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 2:39 | comment | added | Solemnity | And that's what the answer I linked to suggests. | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 2:38 | comment | added | Goodbye Stack Exchange | @Solemnity - That question answers it from a real-world standpoint, but not in-universe, as this question requests. Although I don't think there actually is a canon explanation. | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 2:35 | comment | added | Solemnity | An answer here actually addresses this question. | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 2:27 | history | edited | Solemnity |
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| Feb 19, 2013 at 0:26 | comment | added | Izkata | Star Trek has its own section on TVTropes's SpaceIsAnOcean. So, tradition? | |
| Feb 18, 2013 at 22:58 | history | edited | user11154 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 18, 2013 at 22:44 | comment | added | user11154 | Aren't the technologies completely different between Star Wars and Star Trek? Probably another question there... | |
| Feb 18, 2013 at 22:20 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSciFi/status/303629997602648064 | ||
| Feb 18, 2013 at 20:08 | comment | added | Xantec | The answers here may apply to this as well: scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7408/… | |
| Feb 18, 2013 at 20:05 | history | asked | user11154 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
