Talk:Power Play (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

Synchronous Orbit
...over the south polar region? How can that be? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.148.235.36 (talk) 07:16, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

They're very careful to say "southern polar region" which combined with "synchronous orbit" indicates an area in the rotational mass near, but not directly above, a stationary magnetic pole. Basically, a magnetic pole is a very small area, and the things that are around it do rotate, if only slightly. Question: how could a lunar body maintain sufficient core fusion levels to produce a magnetic field without being right on top of a body providing sufficient gravitational effects to impact an orbiting spacecraft? and a geek-hat correction: Riker was piloting the shuttle when it crashed, not Data. Why, I don't know, since Data has far superior reaction times. Probable citation from Nitpicker's Guide. But then, if the shuttle didn't crash, we wouldn't have such fun acting, would we? 67.172.247.155 (talk) 07:19, 23 July 2011 (UTC)