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)

 

[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/

 

[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.

 

[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: