Re: Building spaceships
- From: nebusj-@xxxxxxxxx (Joseph Nebus)
- Date: 28 Jan 2008 10:03:13 -0500
Sea Wasp <seawaspObvious@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
The problem is that the Enterprise is not meant for landing, its
construction does not provide for landing, and launching that clumsy
shape through atmosphere simply doesn't make sense. You'd have to make
an aeroshell 1200 feet long and 500 wide or something close to it.
Given the state of gravity control in the Trek universe of the
23rd century I don't see why that's impractical.
Heck, to the extent that Trek's warp drive technology grew up
it's Blish's spindizzies with the serial numbers filed off. If you can
hurl New York County into space, you can certainly pitch a saucer up.
Oh, come to it: we know from ``Tomorrow is Yesterday'' that the
ship can maneuver well within Earth's atmosphere, and that when suffering
from a major systems failure. Being able to organize a tow from the
surface to orbit under non-emergency conditions should be practical.
Unless they have SUPER HUGE transporters, I suppose. If you assemble
the ship on a ground-based docking slip, you could probably then beam
the whole thing into orbit...
Another point I'd think practical, although such super-huge
transporters don't seem to have gone explicitly mentioned. The largest,
I think, was the holo-ship designed to transport the Village of the
Boring seen in 'Insurrection', and even then I'm not sure it was meant
to transport an entire village at once or just individual homes.
--
Joseph Nebus
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