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[Umbran]

Plus water is abundant in the universe. But that's by-the-by.

Water is abundant... as matter goes.

But there's that "space" thing. You know, that big empty void? Not so much water there.

If the presence of water distribution on the ship is going to be a major problem for your credulity, watching Star Trek may not be the best idea.

 

[HobbitFan]

The news that Orci is off the movie can only be a good thing. With him gone, the chance that they will actually have a good Star Trek movie went up a great deal.

 

[Morrus]

But there's that "space" thing. You know, that big empty void? Not so much water there.

Well, yes, Umbran. I know this.

If the presence of water distribution on the ship is going to be a major problem for your credulity, watching Star Trek may not be the best idea.

You're mistaking "major problem for my credulity" for "minor niggle". Most every movie has minor niggles about it, but I think I'll keep watching them if that's OK?

 

[Umbran]

You're mistaking "major problem for my credulity" for "minor niggle". Most every movie has minor niggles about it, but I think I'll keep watching them if that's OK?

Yeah, that's fine. 'Cause I think you're missing the *IF*, as in, "IF this is a problem..." That implies that, if it is not a problem, the rest of the statement does not apply. Nice and simple - conditionals, they work for you.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Let's be honest- the franchise has multiple areas in which credulity is strained.

For example, in how many RW organizations are the most senior and experienced personnel regularly sent into harms way as the initial front-line responders?

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Well, Klingon space is only a few minutes away in the Abrahmsverse anyway.

Isn't that something imported from Enterprise (which is technically still part of the timeline)? The NX-01 was pretty quickly at Q'Onos, even though it could only achieve Warp 5.

 

[Thunderfoot]

*EDIT* Oh, and the original deck plans for the Enterprise show a swimming pool and a bowling alley, so why not a water park?

**Facepalm**

 

[Janx]

Let's be honest- the franchise has multiple areas in which credulity is strained.

For example, in how many RW organizations are the most senior and experienced personnel regularly sent into harms way as the initial front-line responders?

I don't know about "harm's way" but in business, it's fairly typical to send in a CEO or VP or something to make contact with a big major client, not the low level peons. Sales guys are acquiring mid-size contracts. VPs are landing the really big fish (think Lennovo landing the original deal to make laptops for IBM, not IBM getting "Your School" to buy all IBM computers).

So it's not entirely implausible, at least outside of "harm's way" situations.

 

[Ryujin]

I don't know about "harm's way" but in business, it's fairly typical to send in a CEO or VP or something to make contact with a big major client, not the low level peons. Sales guys are acquiring mid-size contracts. VPs are landing the really big fish (think Lennovo landing the original deal to make laptops for IBM, not IBM getting "Your School" to buy all IBM computers).

So it's not entirely implausible, at least outside of "harm's way" situations.

Sure, for diplomatic missions, but in Star Trek the senior officers would transport down to the equivalent of an unexplored Polynesian island with an erupting volcano, to the raucous sounds of predatory animals, during World War II. They tried getting away from that a little during the ST:TNG years, explicitly, but that really didn't last.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Plus, it wasn't "a" CEO- the ST version was to send out a majority of the ship's senior staff on a fairly regular basis. How many times did we have Captain, senior science officer, senior medical and senior engineering away on a mission?

In a business setting, that's like sending away your CEO, CFO, COO etc. to the meeting, and leaving Murray from Accounting in charge.

BTW, even today, if and when a meeting requires a huge percentage of the executive staff attend, they don't travel together*. Too much risk of leaving the company without guidance if there is a catastrophe.








* ditto wealthy families, FWIW.