Star TreK Enterprise

[Verto]

Here's to hoping they burn the Enterprise series, and replace it with reruns of the original STAR TREK.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Pax
The saucer design is not realistic for a human spaceship. We don't think that way. That's why we don't have circle houses or circle buildings. Spaceships would either be sleek with a missile or rectangular shape.

Hmm. Wigwams. Tepees. Yurts. An 1859 circular house ]An 1859 circular house[/URL] The Hirschhorn art museum. Various circular highrise apartment buildings in Chicago. Lots of circular towers at hospitals.

Yup, no circular houses or buildings. Thats quite an impressive alternate universe you've got

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by Q Cubed
there's also a philosophical argument that i don't like. enterprise is showing the future by going into the future's past. personally, i would have liked to continue going into the universe's future: uss relativity, for instance, a good voy episode, has plenty of the makings for a good series. or, if you really wanted to sex things up, have a series set in starfleet academy--after voyager returns.

I think the premise was spot on. Go back to the early days of space travel when things weren't as polished or surreal as the later series make it out to be.

In my opinion they didn't move far enough in that direction. This is a military vessel that still doesn't seem like it. I agree with whoever said it seems like cruise ship. Not realistic or plausable.

Plus wasn't this the very first human ship to start exploring deep space? What's up with that black guy who was raised on deep space frieghters? And they keep running across stranded humans out in the middle of no where. Blah.

[shmily_dana]

Originally posted by Unspeakable Horror


Which one?

The Nazi alien was a Remen (as seen in the movie Nemesis).

I did not recognize it at first, but I read that on a ST forum.

[Pax]

Originally posted by lord of the mark


Hmm. Wigwams. Tepees. Yurts. The Hirschhorn art museum. Various circular highrise apartment buildings in Chicago. Lots of circular towers at hospitals.

Yup, no circular houses or buildings. Thats quite an impressive alternate universe you've got.

You win. I'm not even going to try any technicalities. Still the design looks unnatural for a vehicle.

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by Sprayber
I always hated starfleet vessels. They looked like damn cruise ships and the crew looked like a 23 century love boat crew.

Klingons and Cardassians know how to design warships

Those aren't warships.

THIS is a warship

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by Pax
The saucer design is not realistic for a human spaceship. We don't think that way. That's why we don't have circle houses or circle buildings. Spaceships would either be sleek with a missile or rectangular shape.

Three words: Warp-field geometry.

Rounded shapes work better for the efficiency-minded Humans. Non-circular shapes work, but not as well based on *current Starfleet understanding of warp physics. Other species choose less-rounded shapes for aethetics.

*Ent-era, TOS-era, TMP-era, TNG/DS9/Voy-era

[DRoseDARs]

And a beautiful warship it is.

[Hueij]

Why does it have wings? It's a spaceship... I take it it makes sounds too while flying?

[Verto]

'tis but a giant tripod.

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by Hueij
Why does it have wings? It's a spaceship... I take it it makes sounds too while flying?

Those aren't wings, they're engines. The entire structure, not just the hardpoints at the end. We see in Crusade the Thrusters firing along the "wing" during close ups of when it's manuevering.

Also, the ends of the wings force energy towards the front end, which creates a B.F.G.(tm)

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by Verto
'tis but a giant tripod.

Correction... a 3 kilometer tripd with 70-something fighters. And a BFG. (in adition to the regular guns, and close in weapons systems. Can any Star Trek ship claim that? No.)

[DRoseDARs]

The main weapon is an Uber-blaster a-la-Vorlon technology. The weapon charges at the ends of the 3 "wings" and discharges from the bow of the vessel.

This image shows the discharge just about to reach the bow.

[Verto]

Originally posted by Lonestar


Correction... a 3 kilometer tripd with 70-something fighters. And a BFG. (in adition to the regular guns, and close in weapons systems. Can any Star Trek ship claim that? No.)

The Borg cube.

[Lonestar]

The Borg are a bunch of idiots. And I suspect that even B5 warships (Earth, Centauri, Minbari, or others) could wipe the floor with them.

If for no other reason that the militaries of the B5verse aren't incompetant communists.