The Comedian wrote:
BriGuy wrote:
A massive starship being built on the ground?
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A civilization which can control gravity and which can turn matter to energy, squirt it thousands of miles, and turn it back into matter, can build a starship anywhere they damn well please. 
This is the FUTURE...and yeah, by that time, they can also dig big honking holes in Iowa that are not there now.  |
Maybe they should have kept with long-standing Trek tradition and build it in a cave, then.
Any time a Trek episode goes underground I have to work to keep my eyes from rolling.
Technology or not, it just makes more sense for a space vessel to be built in space. I'm sure they'd have the technology to enable that as well. The only reason I can see for why it's on the ground is so Kirk can roll up and stare at it from his motorcycle - another coincidence.
Maybe the canyon was a crater from WW3.