Free Astronomy Magazine November-December 2021

40 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2021 ASTRO PUBLISHING shock absorbers”, devices never fully explained (after all, they do not exist!), whose task would be, in short, to generate a magnetic field with a force equal to and opposite to that generated by the thrust of the warp propulsion. The authors of UFO, having to do with admittedly superluminal speeds, but not necessarily with the burning starts of the Enterprise, found the solution of the green liq- uid more “credible,” whose task is simply to contain the pressure gen- erated on the respiratory and circu- latory systems by the progressive acceleration of the alien flying saucers. We will see later that this is an unnecessary complication, which the writers could have done without. The plots of episodes 10, “The Re- sponsibility Seat”, and 11, “The