[gurps] Sub Trek

[Tom Sparks]

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From: Jay P. Hailey <jayphailey at yahoo.com>
To: The GURPSnet mailing list <gurpsnet-l at sjgames.com>
Sent: Saturday, 13 December, 2008 3:11:23 PM
Subject: Re: [gurps] Sub Trek

>> The SeaQuest episodes had the look and feel of an
>> underwater Star
>> Trek - you have one ship, supposedly one of many but we
>> don't get
>> to see the rest of the fleet, doing a mixture of
>> scientific, diplomatic 
>> and combat missions.

>I think this was, in many ways, deliberate.

seaquest DSV was a protype

>In space, on an epic five-year
>> mission, that 
>> makes some sense. You could build optimized warships, lab
>> ships 
>> or VIP shuttles, but unless you send them out as a squadron
>> all
>> the time the one you might need could be lightyears away.
>> Hence 
>> multirole cruisers. 

>Right.

>> But what about Earth? If the UEO had the resources for one
>> ship 
>> the size of the SeaQuest, why couldn't they cover the
>> oceans with
>> specialized vessels?
yes they could have,

> Notice that in Seaquest, we never, ever saw helicopters, the natural enemies of Submarines.
there were helicopters, but they were called by a different name

>We also never saw the rest of the fleet.
there were no other seaquest like ships

>In the season 1 closer we see people who supposedly are from a Carrier Group.
what episode (number)?

>But you never see these ships and they never affect what's going on with SeaQuest at any given time.


>> How realistic is the assumption that the oceans overtake
>> the land 
>> area in importance, anyway?


>Notice, too, that SeaQuest never mentions deep ocean pressures.
>This condition mounts up quickly and is very difficult to cope with.  I think we'd have an easier time setting up a moon base than a Deep Ocean Base.
>But in SeaQuest the massive crushing pressures are never mentioned.
I agree, there could of been some unexplained technology that the ship had to deal with the deep ocean pressures like star trek warp drive?

> Any thoughts?
> 
> Onno

>SeaQuest really wanted to be Star Trek, but more Politically Correct.

seaQuest is a near future
Star trek is distance future


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