White tie rods?
Couple of Space Seed questions/observations
- Thread starter Dale Sams
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Thank you very kindly, scotpens; that's what I get for making assumptions. Whoops! (wipes egg--er, plomik soup off face)
TheOldMixer, that's too funny! It's a pity they didn't have a sample from that asteroid handy by, the one from "The Paradise Syndrome."
No problem - I knew about Jeffries tubes but those small PVC tubes that Kirk pummels Khan with as scotpens showed.
I doubt they are radio-active in any way. They pull out rather easily too. I was thinking some kind of cooling mechanisms but if I'm not mistaken, doesn't sound hollow when it is dropped? It has been a while since I have the episode so I may be imagined that and it may not have been dropped.
And I'm making too much out of a prop that was convenient placed there so Kirk could use it.
Thanks again!
Shhhh.... You weren't supposed to notice that.
I'm going to make something up and say they are for handling the things that holds the crystals when they are too hot. Or when Scotty can't find a bottle opener.
Actually, I don't remember which episode but I distinctly remember Scotty had a honkin big actual Monkey Wrench standing in the corner of Engineering. I wish I could remember the episode, I wonder if Trek Core has a pic of that.
It might be "Court Martial" per Memory Alpha:
Hope I got the reference right this time--sorry for my featherheadedness yesterday!
Thank you, everyone.
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Never mind the tubes, what are those colorful doodads on the smooth black surface? Jumpers for connecting the dots in the vertical panel?
Perhaps the panel with the holes in it channels vast powers or plasma currents or whatnot (mainly in emergencies where subtler means have failed) - and it's a dangerous task to insert or remove a jumper. So it's not done with bare hands, but with this long tube that has a handle at one end and grapples the jumpers with the other, allowing them to be moved from the flat magnetic storage surface to their destination without close contact and without even the need to lean too close. It's for this reason that plenty of those tubes are provided right next to the panel...
Timo Saloniemi
Perhaps the panel with the holes in it channels vast powers or plasma currents or whatnot (mainly in emergencies where subtler means have failed) - and it's a dangerous task to insert or remove a jumper. So it's not done with bare hands, but with this long tube that has a handle at one end and grapples the jumpers with the other, allowing them to be moved from the flat magnetic storage surface to their destination without close contact and without even the need to lean too close. It's for this reason that plenty of those tubes are provided right next to the panel...
Timo Saloniemi
Never mind the tubes, what are those colorful doodads on the smooth black surface? Jumpers for connecting the dots in the vertical panel?
Perhaps the panel with the holes in it channels vast powers or plasma currents or whatnot (mainly in emergencies where subtler means have failed) - and it's a dangerous task to insert or remove a jumper. So it's not done with bare hands, but with this long tube that has a handle at one end and grapples the jumpers with the other, allowing them to be moved from the flat magnetic storage surface to their destination without close contact and without even the need to lean too close. It's for this reason that plenty of those tubes are provided right next to the panel...
Timo Saloniemi
In that case, the NCC-1701's bridge could certainly use some, seeing as Uhura burns her hands at the communications console during "Charlie X."
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