Re: I finally saw Star Trek reboot

On 7/10/2009 1:07 AM, Duggy wrote:

Non-vacuum explosions.
Just about everything has this. B5 even talked about it.

B5 talks about the burning of the atmosphere inside a fighter.

How much air is their in the wing of an X-Wing?

LOX for the engines?

Open hanger bays.
They had force fields.

An EU hand wave that ignores the basic facts of the films.

In ANH Obi-Wan turned the shield generator off. No one was sucked
into the vaccuum or space.

Negative - Obi-Wan disconnects one of the power feeds to the tractor beam that pulled them in and that would grab them immediately if they tried to leave. As C-3PO states: "The tractor beam is coupled to the main reactor in seven locations. A power loss at one of the terminals will allow the ship to leave."

Similar atmosphere on so many planets.
Not the same as "air in space".

No, but it helps sustain the argument.

Similar as in "breathable"? Why would they bother going to any planets that DIDN'T have breathable atmosphere? There were plenty of uninhabitable planets - Yavin comes to mind. If nobody goes there, there's no reason for the movie to take us there. Or would it have been better if they'd spent half the movies showing us all the planets where nobody lived and nothing of consequence ever happened?

Hell, what was with everyone in "Gone With The Wind" speaking English? You'd think there were no other languages on the planet. They should have tossed in a brief, completely unrelated scene at a French cafe just to demonstrate that there's more than one language spoken in the world.


Air on an asteroid.
As they showed it, they were in a "cave" inside a live animal, and there
was apparently significant gravity (so atmosphere could be possible).

Tey also wore breathing masks when they went outside the Falcon... not unlike Sheridan and Ivanova when they first landed on/in Epsilon III.


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