# Star Trek - 'All stop!' **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 14, 2019, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-all-stop/841751 "2019-10-14T15:19:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![eburacum45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum45/32/8690_2.png) [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2019, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-all-stop/841751/41 "2019-10-15T20:08:39Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > If you’re over the planet’s equator and you match your velocity to its rate of rotation, you’ll be in synchronous orbit. But yes, the orbit will eventually decay. This only happens at one particular height. At a lower height you will fall down; at a higher altitude, you will fall away from the planet. I thought at one time that maybe this synchronous orbit was what the Star Trek writers meant by a ‘standard orbit’. But apparently not. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2019, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-all-stop/841751/42 "2019-10-15T21:47:33Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I didn’t realize that it was based on a particular sub story. As\*\* Just Asking Questions\*\* implied, The Enemy Below, with Robert Mitchum as Kirk. 🙂 The plot item about the Romulan holding a course for home comes straight from the movie. The ending is different. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2019, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-all-stop/841751/43 "2019-10-15T22:58:19Z")
They have said “all stop” and “full stop” at times. Both are directions to stop the engines, the latter meaning, do it fast, or we’ll fucking hit a de-cloaking Romulan warbird! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2019, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-all-stop/841751/44 "2019-10-16T00:25:47Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > The Enemy Below, with Robert Mitchum as Kirk. Kurt Jurgens was the U-boat commander. ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2019, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-all-stop/841751/45 "2019-10-16T07:53:05Z")
If the captain orders, “Simon says all stop,” does everyone on the bridge freeze in place? ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2019, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-all-stop/841751/46 "2019-10-16T08:56:19Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > They have said “all stop” and “full stop” at times. Both are directions to stop the engines, the latter meaning, do it fast, or we’ll fucking hit a de-cloaking Romulan warbird! If that were the objective, they would need to _reverse_ the engines to decelerate to a relative velocity of zero. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2019, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-all-stop/841751/47 "2019-10-16T15:40:46Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > If that were the objective, they would need to _reverse_ the engines to decelerate to a relative velocity of zero. When you drop out of warp, you \*are \*at zero velocity. It’s nothing like accelerating and decelerating in normal space. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-all-stop/841751/48 "2019-10-16T16:00:36Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > When you drop out of warp, you \*are \*at zero velocity. It’s nothing like accelerating and decelerating in normal space. As with all things Star Trek, this isn’t always true. Depends who was writing that day. At least one episode for sure, they run up through warp .5… .7… .8 etc. Just as, for every 10 episodes where the Enterprise is obviously hovering over the landing party, ready to blast something into oblivion with its phasers, there is a Mirror, Mirror where the Enterprise is seen orbiting out of phaser range as a plot point. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-all-stop/841751.md?page=2)