Is inter-galactic space dark? To what extent do science fiction movies accurately depict light?
1) Yes it is extremely dark, a ship would be invisible (black) unless it had navigation lights on. 2) No Sci Fi movies often get it wrong, The Star Trek image of a ship dashing through stars is wrong ’cause the stars are not that close together they are on average 10 light years apart (except in clusters) The bright pink nebulea that voyager often hides in are not like thick smoke, they are so thin that when you get there you would not see them, Astronomers use special tricks to make them visible on photo’s. And battle scenes with the Enterprise and a klingon war bird shooting it out only yards apart is wrong, they would be hudreds of miles apart (did you know that in WW2 battle of midway the 2 sides never saw each other) And finally the opening sequence of Voyager swooping low over the sun and skimming past Saturn is wrong, the ship is out of scale and is thousands of miles long BUT I don’t care, I just suspend dibelief and enjoy the show.
