Source of gravity for DS9

[brekelm]

I was wondering what the source of gravity for the station might be. At first, you would say: centrifugal force, since it's round and seems to rotate. But then I would expect people to be walking on the promenade where it bends upwards (like in 2001: space oddesy). Now the promenade is in a horizontal plane. And from the outside, you can see all the windows on the site where people should be walking. Furthermore, docking would be difficult in this way, you'd expect the crafts dock perpendicular on the rotation field.

There's an episode where it's shown that gravity can be turned on/off per room. That would suggest that its source is non-centrifugal.

What do you think? Is it ever somewhere explained in the series?

 

[Bad Thoughts]

Anti-gravity plating, a fictional technology, is ever-present in Star Trek.

 

[bolak]

Unlike Babylon 5*, DS9 is an impratical shape for benefitting from centrifrugal gravity with Ops in the middle for example. Which would be a gravitation null-zone.


* except for C&C which wasn't in a rotating section but yet had gravity... hmmm

 

[Melakon]

Artificial gravity has been a mainstay of Star Trek since Roddenberry first wrote words on paper.

 

[Paul Weaver]

Gravitational plating, which emits gravitons, which also work, and are impervious to, phased objects like Ro + La Forge in TNG "The Next Phase".

 

[brekelm]

Gravity plating! Ok guys, thanks. I see now that it's a documented technology (Duranium). Didn't know that, I'm just now catching up on the Star Trek series.

 

[Shazam!]

The artificial gravity machine provides the artificial gravity.

 

[brekelm]

Still, another observation: we see Sisko in his office, window in the background. The selestial sky is clearly moving. So, there is a form of rotation. Why is that, then?

 

[Shazam!]

For the LULZ

 

[trekshark]

Still, another observation: we see Sisko in his office, window in the background. The selestial sky is clearly moving. So, there is a form of rotation. Why is that, then?

Probably so people get some variety in their views
otherwise some people's bedrooms always look out into nothing ness while others always see bajor

 

[trekshark]

Unlike Babylon 5*, DS9 is an impratical shape for benefitting from centrifrugal gravity with Ops in the middle for example. Which would be a gravitation null-zone.


* except for C&C which wasn't in a rotating section but yet had gravity... hmmm

hmm. Borrowed/bought enough grav plating from the races that had it for the C&C and maybe a few similar important areas but using rotation was cheaper (either resource wise or in political capital or a combination) for the areas of the station that could make use of it?

 

[Melakon]

Still, another observation: we see Sisko in his office, window in the background. The selestial sky is clearly moving. So, there is a form of rotation. Why is that, then?

For the same reason people today pay a lot of money to eat in a high rise revolving restaurant.

It also presents a fun challenge for pilots docking at the pylons.

 

[Nebusj]

Still, another observation: we see Sisko in his office, window in the background. The selestial sky is clearly moving. So, there is a form of rotation. Why is that, then?

It's for practical matters. If Sisko looks out his window and sees the sky isn't turning, then he knows someone's gone and broken the universe again and O'Brien should go fix it.

 

[Amaris]

I always figured it was to keep to the 26 hour day and night cycle of Bajor. I mean, they are still in the Bajoran solar system.

 

[Tosk]

Everyone gets a view of the wormhole.

 

[bolak]

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hmm. Borrowed/bought enough grav plating from the races that had it for the C&C and maybe a few similar important areas but using rotation was cheaper (either resource wise or in political capital or a combination) for the areas of the station that could make use of it?

I like it! Best explanation I've seen.

 

[Timo]

Actually, the C&C is in the rotating section of the station. Its windows are about one-third the way down (rimwards) the forward face of the rotating docking sphere, and not in the forklike docking fixture next to the sphere. You can just barely spot them (and their symmetric counterparts) in the cross-like structure around the docking hole, "above" and "below" the wide "mouth" rather than to the sides.

What is wrong with how it is depicted is not the presence of gravity (although it should be lower than down on the rim), but whether the stars beyond the window rotate! We are forced to assume that the window in fact features optics or graphics that compensate for the rotation, I guess... (In some of the TV movies, the rotation is properly shown.)

As for DS9 rotating, the stars beyond the various windows rotate whichever way (Sisko's office), or not at all (basically all other windows, such as Promenade or cabin ones). Because the station was significantly upscaled after the model was created, the "real" Ops must be at least twice as wide as the set we see, making it unlikely that Sisko's window really opens to space at all; more probably, it's another viewscreen, giving the Prefect a good view of the space around the station (and, originally, to Bajor below).

Timo Saloniemi

 

[JD5000]

They are actually constantly rotating the camera and editing out the parts when the cast had to walk on the walls and ceiling. It just 'wasn't believable' according to Brannon/Braga.

 

[Kobayshi Maru]

All you need is a graviton emitter. You build one with the parts from a couple of kitchen implements and a set of instructions. It's really not that difficult, I don't know what everyone is talking about.

 

[Kobayshi Maru]

They are actually constantly rotating the camera and editing out the parts when the cast had to walk on the walls and ceiling. It just 'wasn't believable' according to Brannon/Braga.

The hard part is to get the spaghetti sauce out of your hair.