Star Trek-RM: The Cloud Minders… Grading/Discussion

[Timo]

...One wonders if they aren't in fact unreal.

That is, since the surface seems so utterly arid, perhaps the clouds are something other than water vapor, created by the city solely for aesthetic pleasure?

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Basill]

...One wonders if they aren't in fact unreal.

That is, since the surface seems so utterly arid, perhaps the clouds are something other than water vapor, created by the city solely for aesthetic pleasure?

Timo Saloniemi

Funny, I thought I heard Spock's voice when I read that first sentence. Maybe the Enterprise arrived right after the annual Stratos Disco Night. Everybody was drunk and someone left the fog machines on.

But actually, I have wondered that about the clouds myself. At the very the least the one that seems to "cling" to the underside of the city. I often wondered if the clouds didn't linger around that area because of the mechanisms involved in the anti-gravity or if they weren't generated specifically to hide some unsightly machinery.

Of course thinking of that makes me wonder if the reason that the skydiving Troglyte fell off the city at such a strange angle as he did (other than poor visual FX,) didn't have something to do with the anti-gravity field(s) holding up the city. Imagine jumping out of a hot air balloon but not falling straight down, but falling in a highly eccentric arc as if you were being compelled outward by some immense invisible bubble. Just a thought.

 

[Kryton]

Spock would never say that...he's fully aware that "nothing unreal exists".

 

[cooleddie74]

Then how does he explain his ear tips in some of the episodes and movies?