DS9 spins?

[UssGlenn]

Would the bajoran star be bright enough to be annoying if it was always in the view from your window? If so the spin would mean no one has to deal with it all the time.

 

[Sykonee]

Memory Alpha:

According to the Star Trek: Star Charts, on page 42, Bajor (B'hava'el) was a G2V star with an absolute magnitude of 4.2.

So similar to our sun, though with a slightly smaller A.M., thus a slightly higher luminosity (energy output).

 

[MarsWeeps]

Interestingly, you can see this rotation in action anytime there's a scene in Sisko's office. The stars in his window are always slowly moving sideways.

I noticed that...they move slowly when looking out the window of Sisko's office, but in other scenes...like crew quarters they are at a dead stop...for several minutes at least.

Also, in the opening credits when they first show the station, it's not moving at all.

I guess one of the writers just decided it should move a little at some point.

 

[bluepicard27]

i think it so it dosent drift

 

[R. Star]

Maybe Cardassians have a natural immunity to vertigo and it's a defense mechanism in case aliens get the station!

 

[T'Girl]

I noticed that...they move slowly when looking out the window of Sisko's office ...

The majority of DS9 is stationary, but the upper spire that contains ops does rotate.

 

[Timo]

...Or, since the station as seen from the outside is at least twice as big as the sets would suggest, and the walls designed to face space thus must be facing further indoors spaces, every "window" at Ops is in fact a viewscreen, and Sisko's screen saver is set at "stardrift"?

Timo Saloniemi

 

[lurok]

It makes it more interesting.

 

[EmperorTiberius]

It's so that people can get a look at the sun (or Bajor when it was Terok Nor). It's psychological. I wouldn't want to live on the dark side of DS9 for months at a time.

 

[Distorted Humor]

Another stupid idea, It spins after the move to the wormhole, and it is simpler to let it rotate then dealing with the gravometric eddies (or some other technobabble) if it didn't spin. Thus it is allowed to spin in a "window" of speeds and as long as the spin does not exceed some rate, it is not adjusted as it would be just a waste in fuel, as the next eddy from the wormhole opening might cause it to spin the other way.

 

[Timo]

Did anybody suggest yet that it's actually the Ops tower that slowly rotates, with respect to the rest of the station, so that the Prefect can supervise docking maneuvers on each of the three main pylons, or get a clear view past the pylons, whichever he happens to prefer at a given time?

That'd account for the fact that only the window of the Prefect's office was equipped with a scrollable starscape canvas, while the portholes on other sets had fixed cardboard only.

Timo Saloniemi