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   From: john@jfeldredge.com   
      
   On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:14:34 -0600, Greg Goss wrote:   
      
   > Walter Bushell  wrote:   
   >   
   >>In a series where every week people get shaken out of their seats in   
   >>battle, and there are no seat belts; you have to bring up minor points   
   >>like that?   
   >   
   > I finally got around to watching Nemesis.  They installed belts in the   
   > captain's chair.   
   >   
   > Didn't they do that way back for movie #1 set most of a century before   
   > TNG?  I remember that when TNG arrived Roddenberry said that artificial   
   > gravity had improved to the point where any impact that overloads the   
   > grav systems would leave you as strawberry jam.  I guess the "looks   
   > cool" guys overruled 'em on this one.   
      
   I have read that, during the filming of the original series for TV,   
   someone asked Gene Roddenberry why the crew chairs on the bridge didn't   
   have seat belts.  His answer was, "Because then the actors couldn't fall   
   out of them."   
      
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