Starship Enterprise

[DonTadow]

Or, perhaps more conceptually useful - the force needed to lift the thing off the surface is only equal to its weight. Sure, you don't want to be directly under it when it lifts off, but the same can be said for a normal rocket.

Ok, just saw the new trailer... i'm out again. I"m aparently just old, but Its not going to be the old fashioned scfi movie i want.. looks kinda like it was inspired from the last two star wars movies.

 

[Ranger REG]

Ok, just saw the new trailer... i'm out again. I"m aparently just old, but Its not going to be the old fashioned scfi movie i want.. looks kinda like it was inspired from the last two star wars movies.

One can only pray that JJ Abrams would inject some cerebral story elements as he did with his previous works.

Without it, it would just be a base brain-free ripoff of SW.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Okay, I didn't want to do it, but you guys forced me into it...

[PEDANTIC GEEK]

First, notice that the sign in the lower left has corner of the constuction picture says "AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY, 1213N IA" IA, as in Iowa.

Also, remember that the famous Utopia Planitia Shipyards on Mars, not only had orbital starbases and drydocks, but also manufacturing facilities and construction yards on the planet's surface. In the ST:TNG episode Parallels, Cardassians were using the Argus Array to spy on several Federation installations, including the Utopia Planitia Shipyards. At one point, as Geordi is running through the Array's sensor logs, a picture of the shipyards appears showing the major structural components of a Galaxy-class ship being assembled in a yard on the surface of Mars... See below.

[/PEDANTIC GEEK]

Guh. Now I feel dirty. If you'll excuse me, I'm going to go take a shower.

Wow, where did you find this picture! I think I remember some aspects of the episode, but definitely not that there was a "screenshot" of a Galaxy class starship in building!

 

[Hand of Evil]

Oh, here is another VERSION of the trailer!

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAjmbASkkLY]YouTube - Star Trek 90210[/ame]

 

[Ranger REG]

San Fran is part of the 90210 zip code???

 

[Hand of Evil]

San Fran is part of the 90210 zip code???

Yep, after the Eugenics Wars there was some remapping, rezoning, and rewrites, it happens.

 

[Ranger REG]

Yep, after the Eugenics Wars there was some remapping, rezoning, and rewrites, it happens.

Wow. Can't imagine what that would look like in the future. It's Beverly Hills meet Haight-Ashbury.

That's even spookier than Hell.

 

[Ranger REG]

And we have seen the Enterprise fly in Earth's atmosphere in the TOS days, so we know it's airworthy.

Technically they did that when they accidentally traveled back in time and one 1960's Air Force pilot spotted it. I think they nearly got pulled down by the Earth's gravity but nearly escaped and corrected themselves to standard orbit path.

 

[Orius]

You know what bothers me the most about this movie? It not the continuity problems, because Star Trek is pretty much one big continuity problem anyway. It's the whole "hipper, younger" crew angle. Everytime Hollywood pulls this it's annoying.

 

[Ranger REG]

You know what bothers me the most about this movie? It not the continuity problems, because Star Trek is pretty much one big continuity problem anyway. It's the whole "hipper, younger" crew angle. Everytime Hollywood pulls this it's annoying.

Yeah, you know what's even worse? Sesame Street. They're getting younger, and hipper everytime.

*creaks in his rocking chair*