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dallenmarket say: The reality is that it is fiction and in fiction, anything is possible. The explanation in their scripts states that it is artificial gravity designed to keep the insides of the star ship (and in the case of Deep Space Nine, the entire space station) at a constant gravitational orientation and rate so that even during acceleration/deceleration and turning, the people inside are not effected by the forces that would squash them in an instant, or allow them to float around weightless.
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Art say: At warp 1 they should be puddles of pulp pined to the rear bulk head. I will not grant there is no gravity in space , there is., no matter how tiny it would draw them to one side of the ship or the other. In the ISS however they are not weightless , they and the ship are in free fall. Centrifugal force is throwing them away from the Earth at the same rate they are falling, makes them seem weightless.
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spot a say: The Enterprise gets its gravity from Earth. It is called a studio set. It is not real, a fictional story. In fiction, anyone can do anything, hence their warp drives, replicators, transporters etc. Any "scientific explanations" are just more fiction, but it is a good tale - enjoy it, but don't worry too much about the science.
One thing: there is NO SOUND in space. Sound within your ship is fine, and sound from a ship in contact with your ship is also fine, but sound cannot transmit across even 1 metre of empty space. All SF movies and series are wrong with their sounds
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Q The First Timelord say: I'm suspecting it's the recently alluded to graviton particle, which was all but widely discussed throughout the Star Trek series which is a function of the graviton wave which has been making the news all around the world.
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