Re: 3rd Season Enterprise - Carpenter Street - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY!

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 09:40:01 +0200 (EET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timo S Saloniemi)
wrote:

>It might be trivially easy for the average taxpayer from the
>22nd century to drive an early 21st century car, training or no training. 
>Not so much because it takes no skill - but because the steering interfaces 
>have already been so simplified that all post-20th century ground vehicles 
>use those same interfaces even if they run on Mr Fusion and fly. Archer 
>could plausibly have piloted a vehicle with identical controls back home 
>in the early to mid-22nd century.
>
Reminds me of Sulu's comment about the Huey on TVH... something along the
lines that he had trained on a very similar one. And afterwards, it's
obviously him who's piloting it (though the camera doesn't show us a close-up).
Given that a helicopter is more difficult to pilot than a car...

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