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  • "Tacking Into the Wind" is the 172nd episode of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The episode was written by Ronald D. Moore and directed...
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    Tacking or coming about is a sailing maneuver by which a sailing craft (sailing vessel, ice boat, or land yacht), whose next destination is into the wind...
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  • This is called "tacking." The points of sail clarify the realities of sailing into the wind. One of the points of sail is "Head to Wind." A boat turns...
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  • from one tack to the other during which the wind direction is brought across the bow is called tacking; with the wind direction brought across the stern...
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    into, and then through, the direction of the wind. This operation is known as tacking or coming about. Tacking more than 180° to avoid a jibe is sometimes...
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  • necessitate tacking into the wind. In motor vehicles, wind can affect fuel consumption and top speed but is usually ignored by the driver who chooses the speed...
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    her Klingon heritage, and in the Deep Space Nine episode "Tacking into the Wind"— in which Worf kills the leader of the Klingon High Council, Gowron,...
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    Martok (category Fictional characters from the 24th century)
    accept the title of Chancellor, gives it to Martok ("Tacking into the Wind"). When the Dominion forces suddenly withdrew into Cardassian territory, the Allies...
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  • Gowron (category Star Trek: The Next Generation characters)
    appearance in Star Trek was in the Deep Space Nine seventh season episode "Tacking into the Wind" where he is killed by Worf after the Klingon Chancellor displays...
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    canoes that use the crab claw sail traditional throughout Polynesia. Whilst this sail presents some difficulties in tacking into the wind, actually requiring...
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  • Retrieved 2021-05-31. "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "Tacking Into The Wind"/"Extreme Measures"". The A.V. Club. 24 April 2014. Retrieved 2021-05-31. Shedroff...
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  • Ezri Dax (category Fictional characters from the 24th century)
    discusses the actions of the Klingon Chancellor, Gowron (Robert O'Reilly), with Ezri in "Tacking into the Wind". Hearing Ezri's more pragmatic view on the recent...
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    strong wind in a heavy sea and the prospect of tacking through the wind in order to heave to may not appeal. Bearing away from the wind so that the headsail...
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    the wind, necessitating changing of tack with the wind on the opposite side of the craft, from before. Changing tack is called tacking when the wind crosses...
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  • charted in "Tacking Into the Wind", in which Damar and Kira's group abandon prejudice and collaborate to seize a Breen weapon. Continuing into "The Dogs of...
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  • the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes "The Changing Face of Evil", "When It Rains…" and "Tacking into the Wind". He also played a Betazoid in the Star...
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    called tacking, or going about. A craft sailing with the true wind on its side (within limits) is reaching. Wind is flowing over the surface of the sail...
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  • On a tack, the sailor might start by pointing the sailboat as close into the wind as possible while still keeping the winds blowing across the sails...
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    allowed sailing faster than the wind and downwind tacking. High-performance watercraft that can exceed the speed of the true wind include sailing catamarans...
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  • Elim Garak (category Fictional characters from the 24th century)
    multilayered, role during the series. From a production standpoint, Garak's character was expanded from a planned one-time appearance into a pivotal and complex...
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