Dave Kellett wrote a great Sheldon comic strip about this, iirc
The enemy’s
gateship is “down”.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.
Yeah, it’s sad how often good works of art are made by complete turds of people.
Is there a canon answer for why Star Trek ships always meet aligned? I always assumed either
- Ships generally align with the galactic axis (seems unlikely every species would accept the standard).
- 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?
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”
Artificial gravity alignment? so that they can dock etc if needed?
Not aligning these could lead to some hilarious boarding situations.
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”
