E-6B: Good enough for Mr. Spock, good enough for me.

[Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe]

The things you run into when wandering around wikipedia...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E6B

In Star Trek episode "The Naked Time", Mr. Spock uses an E-6B to calculate the time of impact of the Enterprise with a planet. In the episode "Who Mourns for Adonais?", he is again seen holding an E-6B.

I guess they will be around for a while, eh?

(FWIW, the author(s) suggest that the cardboard version may outlast the metal version)

 

[barnstorm]

Spock Rocks.

 

[mantakos]

When the Enterprise is flying in a cross-wind, Spock is all over that cross-wind correction angle.
-harry

 

[COFlyBoy]

My E6B can convert from knots to Warp.

 

[ScottM]

If only he was using his spork too!

 

[Steve Foley]

He could have done those calculations in three times the time with a tricorder.

 

[Jim Logajan]

Gene Roddenberry must have loaned Spock, er, I mean Leonard Nimoy, his E-6B.

 

[Jim Logajan]

Yowzer - I had not realized how often an E-6B appears in the original Star Trek series; check out the stills this person collected:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10901121@N06/sets/72157601585422654/

 

[nddons]

Spock Rocks.

That ... is ... awesome!

Though Spock looks as confused as any of us when we were trying to figure this thing out the first few times. Too bad he didn't have John and Martha to help him out!

 

[silver-eagle]

That ... is ... awesome!

Though Spock looks as confused as any of us when we were trying to figure this thing out the first few times. Too bad he didn't have John and Martha to help him out!

He would have except they were pinched flying a stolen aircraft.
It's a lot like geeks everywhere. A little old fashion, not quite willing to drop their punch cards and use a terminal. Then once they get on them in linemode, not quite ready for a fullscreen session.
PS: My new GPS takes voice direction using "Computer on" to start interaction. Maybe I should get me a dragon system.

 

[Skylane81E]

PS: My new GPS takes voice direction using "Computer on" to start interaction. Maybe I should get me a dragon system.

Thanks for the reminder of Scotty holding the mouse to his mouth "hello computer"

 

[Jeanie]

Right, then Scotty says "how quaint" and cracks his fingers and types at warp.. that was a great scene.....

 

[Skylane81E]

"How do we know he didn't invent the thing?"

 

[Jim Logajan]

"How do we know he didn't invent the thing?"

:wink2:

You mean during "The City on the Edge of Forever"? While the time frame is about correct, I seem to recall all he had to work with was stone knives and bear skins.

 

[Skylane81E]

I mean in "The Voyage Home" when looking for transparent aluminum.

 

[JesseD]

My E6B can convert from knots to Warp.

That would be a great bumper sticker on a pilot's car, at the airport

 

[Jim Logajan]

I mean in "The Voyage Home" when looking for transparent aluminum.

Understood the context of the quote, hence the wink. But The E-6B was invented in the 1930s, so "The Voyage Home" wouldn't work since it involved travel to the wrong era, but "The City on the Edge of Forever" was the right era. Spock probably invented the E-6B while they were waiting for the arrival of the doctor. :wink2:

 

[Skylane81E]

Makes since to me missed the smiley on my phone though.

 

[Palmpilot]

I mean in "The Voyage Home" when looking for transparent aluminum.

Last time I saw that movie, it occurred to me that I really couldn't think of any reason why opaque aluminum would not have served the purpose perfectly well.

 

[PittsDriver]

Yowzer - I had not realized how often an E-6B appears in the original Star Trek series; check out the stills this person collected:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10901121@N06/sets/72157601585422654/

I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you at how many styrofoam cups appear in those scenes. Meh, they're probably throwing them right out an airlock polluting intergalactic space too.