The cryogenic life support systems are damaged and Alien 8 must restore them to operation before the ship's automatic thrusting systems manoeuvre the ship into planetary orbit.

After apologizing to Worf, Picard activates the ship's self-destruct mechanism and orders the crew to abandon ship.

This was explained in the context of the series as a disguise created by the ship's " chameleon circuit ", a mechanism which is responsible for changing the outside appearance of the ship in order to fit in with its environment.

They encounter a strange alien craft, board it and attempt to salvage it but are thwarted by the alien ship's defence mechanism.

In 1878 while on a steamboat trip to Europe, Ritty became intrigued by a mechanism that counted how many times the ship's propeller went around.

* Helm: A ship's steering mechanism ; see tiller and ship's wheel.

The magnetic influence mechanism, designed to allow the torpedo to run under the keel of a ship and detonate, breaking the ship's back, was totally inconsistent ; often a T2 would detonate prematurely, or not at all.

The Star Trek franchise depicts the two-man rule and other similar variations in critical situations, often concerning arming or cancelling a ship's self-destruct mechanism.

For ships, a kedge may be dropped while a ship is underway, or carried out in a suitable direction by a tender or ship's boat to enable the ship to be winched off if aground or swung into a particular heading, or even to be held steady against a tidal or other stream.

Abacá rope is very durable, flexible and resistant to salt water damage, allowing its use in hawsers, ship's lines and fishing nets.

The origin of this vessel, an abandoned and burning ship's boat laden with highly flammable material, is uncertain but it may have been launched from Guerrier as the battle began.

It has never been firmly established how the fire on Orient broke out, but one common account is that jars of oil and paint had been left on the poop deck, rather than properly stowed away after paintwork on the ship's hull had been completed shortly before the battle.

As Duke inspects the ship's computer, it is revealed that the plot to capture women was merely a ruse to distract him.

She is reputed to have commented after he was threatened with disciplinary action following the straining of his ship's engines, " What?

Printed in 1897, the novel is compiled entirely of letters, diary entries, newspaper clippings, telegrams, doctor's notes, ship's logs, and the like, which Stoker adroitly employs to balance believability and dramatic tension.

The painting is structured with Brown's characteristic linear energy, and emphasis on apparently grotesque and banal details, such as the cabbages hanging from the ship's side.

Designed as a ship's prow, the tomb is located at the main entrance to the Cemetery of Rimini.

Galaxy Quest is a once-popular television space-drama series starring Jason Nesmith as the commander of a spaceship called the NSEA Protector, Alexander Dane as the ship's alien science officer, Fred Kwan as the chief engineer, Gwen DeMarco as the computer officer, and Tommy Webber as a precocious child pilot.

Later that year Galaxy Quest is revived, starring the original cast, along with Laliari, a female Thermian who chose to stay on Earth as Fred's lover, and with Guy playing the ship's chief of security, " Roc " Ingersol.

The shape is chosen to strike a balance between cost, hydrostatic considerations ( accommodation, load carrying and stability ), hydrodynamics ( speed, power requirements, and motion and behavior in a seaway ) and special considerations for the ship's role, such as the rounded bow of an icebreaker or the flat bottom of a landing craft.

If a ship's hull classification symbol begins with " W ", it is a ship of the United States Coast Guard.

If a ship's hull classification symbol begins with " T -", it is part of the Military Sealift Command, has a primarily civilian crew, and is a United States Naval Ship ( USNS ) in non-commissioned service — as opposed to a commissioned United States Ship ( USS ).

The letter is followed by a three-digit number ; the first digit indicates the NOAA " class " ( i. e., size ) of the vessel, which NOAA assigns based on the ship's gross tonnage and horsepower, while the next two digits combine with the first digit to create a unique three-digit identifying number for the ship.

The primary antagonist in 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL ( Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer ) is an artificial intelligence that controls the systems of the Discovery One spacecraft and interacts with the ship's astronaut crew.

Socrates uses the parable of the ship to illustrate this point: the unjust city is like a ship in open ocean, crewed by a powerful but drunken captain ( the common people ), a group of untrustworthy advisors who try to manipulate the captain into giving them power over the ship's course ( the politicians ), and a navigator ( the philosopher ) who is the only one who knows how to get the ship to port.

This is so because the earth is constantly rotating, and therefore knowing the time while making an altitude measurement to a known heavenly body such as the sun, provided critical data for a ship's position east-west — a necessary capability for re-approaching land after voyages over medium and long distances.

However, the ship's roster from his family's arrival at Ellis Island lists his birthplace as Párdány, Kingdom of Hungary, in what is today the village of Međa in Serbia, not far from the Romanian border.

In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " A Matter of Honor ", several members of a Klingon ship's crew speak a language that is not translated for the benefit of the viewer ( even Commander Riker, enjoying the benefits of a universal translator, is unable to understand ) until one Klingon orders the others to " speak their ' humans ' language ".

The fate of the ship's crew of 15 is unknown.

And when questioned by ship's reporters about the separation, she said, `` I adore him, and he adores me ''.

However, Capra remembers the ship's arrival into New York Harbor, where he saw " a statue of a great lady, taller than a church steeple, holding a torch above the land we were about to enter ".

A second expedition, one ship of about 40 men, led by Leif's brother Thorvald, sets out in the autumn after Leif's return and stays over three winters at the new base ( Leifsbúðir (- budir ), meaning Leif's temporary shelters ), exploring the west coast of the new land in the first summer, and the east coast in the second, running aground and losing the ship's keel on a headland they christen Keel Point ( Kjalarnes ).

On September 2, 1945, Curtis witnessed the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay from his ship's signal bridge about a mile away.

When Marlowe ( Bogart, from The Big Sleep ) calls, Rigby questions him about Walter Neff, the ship's owner, and learns that Neff cruises supermarkets looking for blondes.

Rigby drugs him and finds documents about the Immer Essen, including a passenger list identical to an EOC list, and articles about the ship's imprisoned captain, Cody Jarrett, who refuses to talk to anyone about it but his mother.

However, during transport on Captain Gantu's ship, 626 learns about his security prison and manages to escape his cell to the hangar by cutting off the ship's power core.

Flying about in the 3D view with the ship's normal engines is sufficient for travel within a sector ; travel between sectors is via " hyperspace ", accomplished through an elaborate and noisy " hyperwarp " sequence with graphics loosely reminiscent of the Star Wars and Star Trek films in which the stars seemed to stretch to radial lines.

She is a talented singer, and her best friend is Omoikane, the ship's computer, which she usually consults if she has any questions about life in general.

The boats glide gently past a violent thunderstorm tossing an old pirate ship about, though the ship's pilot is nothing more than a skeleton.

T ' Pol would butt heads with Archer about his style of command during the ship's early missions ; chastising him for taking chances just to able to explore new planets.

His ship's log notation states " at noon we where ... about 2 or 3 miles from the land and abrest of a bay or harbour within there appeared to be a safe anchorage which I called Port Jackson.

The ship's insurer offered 10 million rupees ( about $ 180, 000 US dollars in 2003 ) in compensation to the Karachi port authorities, and agreed to pay all cleaning expenses.

The 87, 000 bales of cotton and lubricating oil were loaded at Karachi and ship's captain Alexander James Naismith recorded his protest about such a " mixture " of cargo.

The novel is seen as an allegory about isolation and solidarity, the ship's company serving as a microcosm of a social group.

" and for him to answer, " Up along the top ridge "-before there was a big burst of flaming hydrogen from a point he estimated to be about one-third the ship's length from the stern.

Because Morpheus, as a hovercraft captain, possesses access codes to the Zion mainframe computer, the surviving members of the ship's crew are about to unplug Morpheus from the Matrix, without reconnecting his mind and body, a process that will kill him.

Kanikōsen In 2008, " A Crab Canning Boat ," a 1929 Marxist novel about a crab-canning ship's crew determined to stand up to a cruel manager under harsh conditions, became a surprise bestseller, thanks to an advertising campaign linking the novel to the working poor.

The record is incomplete, but it reveals that the Valiant had been swept from its path by a " magnetic space storm ," and that the crew had frantically searched for information about extra-sensory perception ( ESP ) in the ship's library computer.

Kirk orders Thelev brought to the bridge and questions him about his and the attacking ship's motives, though Thelev is evasive.

Of the ship's total complement of about 1, 140 ( including 88 crew ), there were reportedly only 18 survivors ( all crewmen ), one of whom died soon afterwards.

The show gives an in-depth explanation of the story of the shipwreck NUMA is exploring, including information about the ship's history and how it sank.

The ship and some related artifacts were discovered by Kelly's crew at a depth of about 20 feet below the street right where it had been beached on the shoreline of Manhattan Island at the time of the ship's burning.