Watching The Corbomite Maneuver and I can't help but wonder what is actually looks like on the outside as the Enterprise tries to evade Balok's warning buoy.
The buoy isn't chasing them, it's keeping the Enterprise from passing - it was never behind them. Yet the Enterprise gets up to Warp 3 before radiation danger forces Kirk to blow the thing to atoms. When we see the exterior shot of phasers firing, it looks like the Enterprise is backing away. So...was the Enterprise in reverse at Warp 3 or going forward at Warp 3 with the cube in reverse? And if the cube was going backwards, it's doing a lousy job of keeping them out of their space.
Now....in this episode (and in a few later episodes) they seem to use "warp speed" as a power level rather than simply a velocity when escaping the Fasarius' tractor beam later on. Would this fall into the same category? They weren't fighting against a restraining force, the cube was simply in their way.
Sure, in 1966, nobody gave it a thought, but in 2024, I've seen this episode countless times, I gotta get something new out of it.
EDIT: @1001001 can you kindly edit the title to say VS instead of BS please? Thanks!
The buoy isn't chasing them, it's keeping the Enterprise from passing - it was never behind them. Yet the Enterprise gets up to Warp 3 before radiation danger forces Kirk to blow the thing to atoms. When we see the exterior shot of phasers firing, it looks like the Enterprise is backing away. So...was the Enterprise in reverse at Warp 3 or going forward at Warp 3 with the cube in reverse? And if the cube was going backwards, it's doing a lousy job of keeping them out of their space.
Now....in this episode (and in a few later episodes) they seem to use "warp speed" as a power level rather than simply a velocity when escaping the Fasarius' tractor beam later on. Would this fall into the same category? They weren't fighting against a restraining force, the cube was simply in their way.
Sure, in 1966, nobody gave it a thought, but in 2024, I've seen this episode countless times, I gotta get something new out of it.
EDIT: @1001001 can you kindly edit the title to say VS instead of BS please? Thanks!
The show's limited fx never quite showed the battle, and we always understood that fx shots are a heavy lift, so we forgave whatever TOS didn't show. Like, remember that great crash landing in "The Galileo Seven"?
