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Rob Archer
Apr 13, 2019
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Once again, a sci-fi space show treats three-dimensional space as a flat earth ocean. This week's Star Trek: Discovery shows the Discovery and Enterprise "surrounded" by enemy ships.

This seems to be de rigueur for TV and movie spaceships, with a few notable exceptions including The Expanse - which shows ships behaving as if they're actually in space, no…

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