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From: Jay P. Hailey <[email protected]>
To: The GURPSnet mailing list <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, 13 December, 2008 3:11:23 PM
Subject: Re: [gurps] Sub Trek
>> The SeaQuest episodes had the look and feel of an
>> underwater Star
>> Trek - you have one ship, supposedly one of many but we
>> don't get
>> to see the rest of the fleet, doing a mixture of
>> scientific, diplomatic
>> and combat missions.
>I think this was, in many ways, deliberate.
seaquest DSV was a protype
>In space, on an epic five-year
>> mission, that
>> makes some sense. You could build optimized warships, lab
>> ships
>> or VIP shuttles, but unless you send them out as a squadron
>> all
>> the time the one you might need could be lightyears away.
>> Hence
>> multirole cruisers.
>Right.
>> But what about Earth? If the UEO had the resources for one
>> ship
>> the size of the SeaQuest, why couldn't they cover the
>> oceans with
>> specialized vessels?
yes they could have,
> Notice that in Seaquest, we never, ever saw helicopters, the natural enemies
> of Submarines.
there were helicopters, but they were called by a different name
>We also never saw the rest of the fleet.
there were no other seaquest like ships
>In the season 1 closer we see people who supposedly are from a Carrier Group.
what episode (number)?
>But you never see these ships and they never affect what's going on with
>SeaQuest at any given time.
>> How realistic is the assumption that the oceans overtake
>> the land
>> area in importance, anyway?
>Notice, too, that SeaQuest never mentions deep ocean pressures.
>This condition mounts up quickly and is very difficult to cope with. I think
>we'd have an easier time setting up a moon base than a Deep Ocean Base.
>But in SeaQuest the massive crushing pressures are never mentioned.
I agree, there could of been some unexplained technology that the ship had to
deal with the deep ocean pressures like star trek warp drive?
> Any thoughts?
>
> Onno
>SeaQuest really wanted to be Star Trek, but more Politically Correct.
seaQuest is a near future
Star trek is distance future
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