starships underwater.

[King Daniel Into Darkness]

Two words: fluidic space. If Voyager managed just fine, the Enterprise can too.

Although I wouldn't want to be nearby sea life...

"Warp speed!"

*ecological disaster*

[Timo]

Two words: fluidic space. If Voyager managed just fine, the Enterprise can too.

That'd depend a lot on fluid pressure and viscosity and whatnot, tho.

The "operations" in the teaser might be limited to being just below the surface to hide from visual spotting. Or we might see some Jacques Cousteau action to round out the skydives of the first movie and the lava dancing evident here. Won't do to neglect any of the elements.

Timo Saloniemi

[Chaos Descending]

I now stand convinced that the ship crashing down is not the Enterprise, unless the Enterprise in this film is re-designed for some reason.

I still can't see the ship rising from the water as being the Enterprise. The nacelles look wrong to me, and I see no evidence of a saucer.

[Crazy Eddie]

^ That's because the saucer is well below the plane of the nacelles even in level flight. In this case, the nacelles are breaking the surface of the waves while the saucer is still under water.

[SalvorHardin]

You can get a peak at those black and white lines on the saucer, which is about to surface, just below the water. Plus the NCC 17... on the nacelle.
And the fact that they wouldn't waste such a money shot on any other ship than the Enterprise.

[Chaos Descending]

Why does the rear of the nacelle have a "double decker" look to it?

And the fact that they wouldn't waste such a money shot on any other ship than the Enterprise.

That argument isn't useful for the "other ship", the one that's crashing down, which everyone ALSO says isn't the Enterprise. So I dunno now. I bet neither of them are the Enterprise.

Or else the Enterprise has been heavily refit/modified for this film.

[Forbin]

Intercoolers.

[Chaos Descending]

Here is a post from another thread that illustrates perfectly what I am talking about.

http://www.trekbbs.com/showpost.php?...&postcount=370

[SalvorHardin]

Chaos Descending wrote:

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Here is a post from another thread that illustrates perfectly what I am talking about.

http://www.trekbbs.com/showpost.php?...&postcount=370

Even that guy reconsidered a few pages later, if I remember correctly.

[Crazy Eddie]

^ Since even from that it's pretty obviously the same engine and same ship.

[Chaos Descending]

newtype_alpha wrote:

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^ Since even from that it's pretty obviously the same engine and same ship.

They look absolutely nothing alike to me.

I can accept that there might be tricks of angle and so forth, but it just seems SO different that I can't buy it.

[Santaman]

Sydney class has quite the boat hull, could see her soft land on water, as for the various Enterprises, if needed it could be done, engineer might get annoyed though.

[Crazy Eddie]

Chaos Descending wrote:

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They look absolutely nothing alike to me.

I can accept that there might be tricks of angle and so forth, but it just seems SO different that I can't buy it.

Where do you even SEE differences? Take it element by element, use some images as reference.

Aft end of the nacelle: downward angle, concave center.

Top of the nacelle: flat rounded "fantail" with two low V-shaped "fins" that taper to flush with the nacelle tube a quarter of the way forward.

Front of the nacelle: goldfish hump, tapers to flush with the tube a fifth of the way aft.

The registry is in the right place and is the same size.

What's probably tripping you up is that you're looking at the nacelle with a couple hundred tons of seawater still rolling off of it and thinking the seawater reflects the shape of what you're looking at. The Enterprise is over 700 meters long; each one of those nacelles is the size of an aircraft carrier, and in this clip they just went from a submerged position to about a hundred meters above it in three seconds flat. The water isn't gonna just roll off of it like a submarine (although even then it's often hard to make out the lines of the ship under all that water).

[zennie62]

Chemahkuu wrote:

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Watch the trailer in HD, the rising scene is the Enterprise on an alien ocean, the splash down is a small frigate in the SF bay area.

Good call. I too thought it was the SF Bay.

[Vito Corleone]

KamenRiderBlade wrote:

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Improvization is done when necessary, but crazy preparedness is how our US military trains so they can deal with just about any situation.

In some parts of it, anyway...

I was wondering about those scenes involving ships going into/coming out of the drink. It looks like a Constitution class but, that doesn't necessarily mean the Enterprise went down. (I hope...)