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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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