Amph JJ Abrams' Star Trek Into Darkness

Whether or not that works in reality has nothing to do with whether or not I "love" science. I'm not a starship engineer. I'm not even a normal one. Who knows whether that would work?

 

Dammit! *feels like an idiot*

 

From what we've seen of other, more advanced starships crashing




it wouldn't.

EDIT: Then again, we don't know if the Enterprise will actually survive. There were more than one in the original movies, although two films is a bit of a short tenure.

 

wait is troy always at the helm when they crash into ****? is this some kind of subtextual commentary on women drivers?

 

Yes, Troi was at the helm both times her ships crashed. I guess the behind-the-scenes reason is because no one wants to see some no-name helmsman react to a spectacular sequence and she's the only one who doesn't do anything on the bridge. Neither time was her fault, but I blame her anyway.

 

lol but you can kill the noname helmsman! drop a girder on his ass or have a screen fry him

 

They did! The first one got injured I think and the second got blown out into space when the front of the bridge was blown off for the few seconds before the emergency force field turned on.

 

deeg you know too much about star trek

 

Before getting sucked out into the vacuum of space Troy gave him some life-changing guidance counseling.

 

It probably is, but how do we know it's not heavily damaged (only see the nacelle) and it's rising under its own power? Another ship could be using a tractor beam or, depending on who he is, Cumberbatch could be using his superpowers.



I kind of feel like an apologist now. I feel dirty.

 

parta growing up, i suspect. i have seen our shared future, guy... and it calls itself "ender"

 

No, you're just the realist. I know that feeling, every time I tell VLM that his warp drive article sucks.

 

CGI water nevr looks "right", frankly it looks like how sand is suppose to act like in that silly clash of the titans movie.

 

I will be that guy when it comes to complaining about the Enterprise hitting the water. I concede that the ship might be salvageable after crashing, but the angle it comes in at would out all the pressure on the saucer section. Even if the shields absorbed a lot of the kinetic energy that's a lot of pressure on the hull of the ship. And remember spaceships generally have thinner hulls than atmospheric or water ships. I don't see how the Enterprise survives an uncontrolled fall into the water.

That being said, it sure does look badass.

 

I'm really curious on what the lava planet is. Unless there's another TIME PARADOX, and they all end up on Mustafar for no good reason.

 

Be careful you might break the internet with that statement.

 

It was broken for a little while yesterday...

 

I don't see how crashing like that wouldn't "break her back" to steal a phrase from BSG. Yes I know it's a SciFi movie so anything can happen.

 

I'm just struggling with how the damn thing even makes it through the atmosphere. It's not ideally shaped to withstand the force of reentry, It has zero aerodynamic qualities (it was specifically designed to look like something built for space and not atmospheric travel) I doubt its repulser lifts or whatever are even designed to lift its weight against earth's gravity, and just looking at the angle of impact and imagining the kinetic energy from going into the water I can't see how it makes it with out rupturing the hull or splitting the saucer from the neck.

Even if that ship isn't the Enterprise (maybe its just part of the detonated fleet?) we do know for sure that at some point the Enterprise is under water. Which is just...I can't....

 

The thing crashing into the water? That's definitely a starship.