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URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Sky-1-tp1500783p1500819.html


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From: "Robert Thomas" <[hidden email]>
To: <[hidden email]>
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 7:19 PM
Subject: Re: [SHADO] Sky 1


> Join the club on insomniacs. Sometimes I have aheck of a time getting to
sleep too. Watching Democrats speak on C-Span usually puts me right out.
> As far as the Captain being the pilot of Sky as well, I would say that
this is just one more example of the crew being too small to actually run
the ship. Normally you wouldn't have the jobs combined, but with such a tiny
crew (Five actual crewmebers being the largest I have ever seen, in
SubSmash) every one has to do double and even tripple duty.
> I would hope that all of them are cross trained to do one anothers jobs,
just in case.... But you never know with this bunch. I can only think of two
esps when Carlin wasn't at the controls of Sky.


When I first saw and fell in love with this program as a kid in the 70's, I
always interpreted SkyDiver as being a large 300 ft+ vessel, with a crew of
at least several dozen.... I assumed they just never showed us the rest
working on the decks below.

Although thru adult eyes the show seems to imply to the contrary, I still
like to imagine that there is an extensive crew off camera. The whole thing
just works better that way for long range deployments....at least to me
IMHO.

Dave H