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Star Trek 12 news/countdown thread

Having a 21st century scientist explain why a 23rd century starship cant go underwater would be like having Robert Stephenson dismiss the Mars Rover.
 
CaptainWacky said:
NO, The Enteprise going underwater is worse because it ruins the wonder of plausible science read this http://badassdigest.com/2012/12/11/a-scientist-explains-why-the-enterprise-cant-go-underwater/
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The guy is a fucking idiot. He dismisses structural integrity fields and shields as a way to "technobabble" your way out of things. I guess he must have just forgot that those things have been part of Trek ship design since day one, and that they have been used for that very purpose on multiple occasions. The NX-01, it's shuttlecraft, and every ship since then have been capable of flying deep into gas giants where the atmospheric pressure is quite a bit higher than being a few hundred feet underwater. He further shows his ignorance of Trek by referring to the movie as a "reboot", showing he doesn't know the difference between a reboot and an alternate universe. Finally, he seems to have conveniently forgotten that Intrepid class ships, Defiant Class ships and several others were designed to fly within an atmosphere and LAND. This guy needs to 1. Sit down for a Trek marathon sometime in the near future and 2. Read a few articles in Memory Alpha.
 
whisky said:
Having a 21st century scientist explain why a 23rd century starship cant go underwater would be like having Robert Stephenson dismiss the Mars Rover.
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BAM! Right on the head!

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Always makes me laugh in back to the future II, where they have flying cars, Mr fusion, and hoverboards, yet still use dot matrix printers.
 
Dirk Funk said:
The guy is a fucking idiot. He dismisses structural integrity fields and shields as a way to "technobabble" your way out of things. I guess he must have just forgot that those things have been part of Trek ship design since day one, and that they have been used for that very purpose on multiple occasions. The NX-01, it's shuttlecraft, and every ship since then have been capable of flying deep into gas giants where the atmospheric pressure is quite a bit higher than being a few hundred feet underwater. He further shows his ignorance of Trek by referring to the movie as a "reboot", showing he doesn't know the difference between a reboot and an alternate universe. Finally, he seems to have conveniently forgotten that Intrepid class ships, Defiant Class ships and several others were designed to fly within an atmosphere and LAND. This guy needs to 1. Sit down for a Trek marathon sometime in the near future and 2. Read a few articles in Memory Alpha.
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Thank you for making us all look better.
 
Dirk Funk said:
The guy is a fucking idiot. He dismisses structural integrity fields and shields as a way to "technobabble" your way out of things. I guess he must have just forgot that those things have been part of Trek ship design since day one, and that they have been used for that very purpose on multiple occasions. The NX-01, it's shuttlecraft, and every ship since then have been capable of flying deep into gas giants where the atmospheric pressure is quite a bit higher than being a few hundred feet underwater. He further shows his ignorance of Trek by referring to the movie as a "reboot", showing he doesn't know the difference between a reboot and an alternate universe. Finally, he seems to have conveniently forgotten that Intrepid class ships, Defiant Class ships and several others were designed to fly within an atmosphere and LAND. This guy needs to 1. Sit down for a Trek marathon sometime in the near future and 2. Read a few articles in Memory Alpha.
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You fucking owned that internet guy. He'll think twice about applying his "science" to Star Trek next time, because he doesn't want to deal with ol' Dick Funk.
 
Anyway here's the full teaser trailer.
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If you can't watch it, just take The Dark Knight trailer and but everyone in Starfleet uniforms.
 
Well I like the new teaser more because it has more spaceships and people jumping off of things and also people in tubes?
 
Some Trekkies should FORGET about the science &/or technicalities of the nu1701 becoming a submarine for a mission on some far flung Alpha or Beta Quadrant world. Due to TREKnicalities it can do it! Anyway, Trekkies, & movie goers/viewers in general, should like & appreaciate the visual & artistic beauty of that scene in STxII.

Amyway, there might be some good reason for the 1701 2.0 becoming a submarine. Maybe staying in orbit around that world is dangerous due to radiation &/or asteroids &/or debris &/or some other reason?
 
Plus/also:

Things in/from the Abramsverse would have a different quantuam signature than things in/from the Roddenberryverse. Remember "Parallels"?
 
What stereotype do I conform to if my main gripe with the trailer is the shitty generic dystopian architecture that's replaced Trek's beautiful '60s futurism? Earth's supposed to be a relative paradise, but in this it looks like it could have come from any other unimaginative scifi bollockfest.
 
Fuddlemiff said:
What stereotype do I conform to if my main gripe with the trailer is the shitty generic dystopian architecture that's replaced Trek's beautiful '60s futurism? Earth's supposed to be a relative paradise, but in this it looks like it could have come from any other unimaginative scifi bollockfest.
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Curmudgeon?
 
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