Guess and Check

2/28/2011

Bearing

Filed under: General — 10:34 pm

I can’t believe it took me this long to realize what Star Trek helmsman etc. mean when they say things like “bearing one eight zero mark zero” and “bearing zero nine zero mark two seven zero” and so forth.

I was watching DS9 Episode 5×13 For The Uniform, and when Dax was backing the Defiant out of docking bay three it just clicked.

Read all about it over at Memory Alpha’s bearing article.