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STAR TREK IX



                                            TECHNICAL NOTES












                                                          Story by
                                               Rick Berman & Michael Piller



                                                        Screenplay
                                                     by Michael Piller


                                             Second Draft, November 4, 1997


                    p. 14 (top)

                    Son’a Body Sculpture facility... working out with weights...

                    Instead of weights, how about a luminous force field ‘web’ that surrounds the men
                    working out. This could be done with fiber optics or sfx. Their movements are resisted
                    by the force field to exercise their muscles. They could be doing unusual tai-chi like
                    movements, straining against the field...

                    p. 17 (top)

                    LaForge: “... gamma ray bursters...”

                    Suggest: “ .. gamma ray pulsars...”
                    *  p. 17 (middle)

                    LaForge: “our plasma manifolds will choke on the molecular dust...”

                    Suggest: “our plasma manifolds will choke on the subatomicresiduals” or, “we’ll
                    overload the deflector control system...” Even atomic-scale particles are potentially
                    deadly projectiles for a ship traveling at a significant fraction of the speed of light.
                    When there’s a high density of interstellar matter, the deflector system has to work
                    that much harder to keep that material from piercing the hull.

                    *  p. 18 (bottom)

                    Crusher: “Nothing hazardous in the ionized particles picked up overnight in the
                    Bussard collectors...”




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