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A form of [[Hollywood Science]]. Leads to [[Old School Dogfighting]]
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== Live Action TV ==
* One episode of ''[[Space: 1999]]'' even showed one of the Eagle ships ''rocking in space''.
* ''[[Star Trek]]'', unsurprisingly. In fact, in an instance where someone takes advantage of inertia (''[[Star Trek the Next Generation]]'': "The Battle") by letting a derelict coast alongside them, everyone else is amazed by the notion - and, indeed, it turns out that his decision was prompted by his being [[Not Himself]]. In the other known instance ("Booby Trap"), it takes Geordi being inspired by ancient records to come up with the idea of escaping an engine-detecting minefield by pulsing the engines once and then coasting.
** Though at least on Next Generation they have separate responses to the captain when the controls read all stop and when the sensors confirm all stop, implying that the all stop command requires the vessel to actively slow down.
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