• NegativeNull@lemmy.worldOPM
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      It’s kind of sad. I grew up reading this book, before Card became an insufferable ass (or at least before I came aware of it). He had a book signing in Denver around the year 1998 or 1999? and I got a signed copy of Ender’s Game.

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        Yeah, it’s sad how often good works of art are made by complete turds of people.

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    Is there a canon answer for why Star Trek ships always meet aligned? I always assumed either

    1. Ships generally align with the galactic axis (seems unlikely every species would accept the standard).
    2. Ships realign automatically when approaching another vessel based on their artificial gravity or something.

    I imagine #2 could lead to some comical spinning as two ships keep trying to align to each other.

    EDIT: Also, #2 gets exponentially more complicated as the number of ships increases–maybe the smaller ships align to the biggest one?

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      From my understanding, though I can’t pinpoint why I think this, it’s “ship #1 orient based however they feel like, any follow up ships orient accordingly to ships already in-system”

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        Not aligning these could lead to some hilarious boarding situations.

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      I think it’s closer to #2, but by choice/convention. An episode I watched lately had a mention of a ship “matching our orientation”