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   ANIM8Rfsk  writes:   
   >> On the other hand, TOS era ships are so overpowered that you wonder why   
   >> they bother going into orbit at all - they could just hang there in the   
   >> same way that bricks don't. *   
   >   
   >That's exactly what they do.  They call it 'standard orbit' but it really   
   >ain't no such thing.   
      
   I guess this isn't really a fanwank. The military uses the term orbit to   
   mean 'circling in the air over one place', so we can say that's what   
   they're doing, because it DOES explain the constant instabilities that   
   they're always experiencing when they lose power, as you said.   
      
   It's a shame that it was never SHOWED that way in any series. Orbits always   
   look like the conventional kind (other than the planets always being   
   ridiculously too small in TOS). *   
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