Spoilers TOS: The Face of the Unknown by Christopher L. Bennett Review Thread

[hbquikcomjamesl]

A little. Methane's molecular weight is 16 (1@12 + 4@1). But the atmosphere would still have to be more methane than hydrogen.

Ammonia's is 17 (1@14 + 3@1). By comparison, molecular oxygen's molecular weight is 32 (2@16) and molecular nitrogen's is 28 (2@14). Carbon dioxide's is 44 (2@16 + 1@12).

Ammonia bird in a gilded cage.

 

[CaptChris42]

The planet actually has a hydrogen-methane atmosphere; does that help?

Yes, that would presumably aid buoyancy well.

One other thing - I assume the Last Unicorn Games sourcebook 'All our Yesterdays', with it's own history of the First Federation (extending even further back, to about 50,000 years ago) was not a noteworthy influence upon the novel's own presentation of the culture?

(And nor perhaps, was the Shatnerverse novels Dark Victory, or Preserver...)

 

[Christopher]

One other thing - I assume the Last Unicorn Games sourcebook 'All our Yesterdays', with it's own history of the First Federation (extending even further back, to about 50,000 years ago) was not a noteworthy influence upon the novel's own presentation of the culture?

Nope.

(And nor perhaps, was the Shatnerverse novels Dark Victory, or Preserver...)

Definitely not. Although I did stay consistent with the depiction of the First Federation envoys in the early TNG novel Gulliver's Fugitives.