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The tremendous accelerations involved in the kind of spaceflight
seen on Star Trek would instantly turn the crew to chunky salsa unless there
was some kind of heavy-duty protection. Hence, the inertial damping field.
The reason for the ╥characteristic lag╙ referred to above is to ╥explain╙ why
our crew is occasionally knocked out of their chairs during battle or other
drastic maneuvers despite the IDF. The science of all this is admittedly a bit
hazy, but it seems a good compromise between dramatic necessity and
maintaining some kind of technical consistency. ╞