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Spacedock on YouTube went through all of the problems with the dune-buggy, and why it makes no sense just based on utility if you were designing a tactical vehicle.
  • It's not covered, so it offers no protection from the elements.
  • The rear weapon's mount gives a limited firing arc that makes defending the craft more difficult.
  • What little room there is in it is occupied by 3 passengers, meaning there's little to no storage area for supplies or to haul materials other than just enough for the body of a Soong-Type android.
  • It seems to take up most of the area of the shuttlecraft, which brings up the biggest problem with it: why not just use the shuttle to go from place to place and grab what you need instead?
Indeed. How foolish is it for the U.S. Army to use these, when they have properly armored tanks and helicopters at their disposal?
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And they're even a real military. ;)

I, for one, didn't mind finally seeing the crew use a ground vehicle instead of walking around in their space pajamas.
 
Second best. Into Darkness is the best of all.

To all: fight me.

It would be if it did not specifically involve the character Khan. Since Cumberbatch did a wonderful job.

It was the moment the franchise revealed they see Khan as the equivalent to Lex Luthor or Joker. And basically see the franchise as a comic book movie. Yet never went to the full extent of owning that they were making a cinematic universe.

Without it, Into Darkness beats ST’09 and BEY easily.
 
Khan has been listed as the best Trek villain for years, TWOK the best film. Khan has been Trek's Joker far before Into Darkness.

No. I don’t mean solely name recognition. I mean the guy they will go to the well with again and again, on the basis of popularity. Meaning, a rebooted film series will at some point include Khan. And the rebooted film series after that will also have Khan.

Which is ironic, as the antagonist Kirk encountered the most in TOS & TAS is Harry Mudd. There was even an offhand comment about Mudd in Into Darkness.
 
No. I don’t mean solely name recognition. I mean the guy they will go to the well with again and again, on the basis of popularity. Meaning, a rebooted film series will at some point include Khan. And the rebooted film series after that will also have Khan.

Which is ironic, as the antagonist Kirk encountered the most in TOS & TAS is Harry Mudd. There was even an offhand comment about Mudd in Into Darkness.
Harry Mudd kind of is like the Joker... from the Silver Age. ;)

Both start off more serious (Mudd was a space pimp at first and the Joker actually killed people back in 1940), then they quickly become pranksters who aren't doing things that are really that bad. And, at the end of each story, they go to jail, and everyone has a big laugh. And we all know they'll escape again.
 
*looks at his recently acquired Warthog toy* Driver is definitely not centered.
Once you driven a automobile from the center seat and experienced the optimal-ness and why F1 & other Sports cars prefer to have their driver in the center, you'll never want to go back to a Left/Right handed driving position.

Center Driving Position or Pilot Position = Best for Driving/Flying Experience.
 
Once you driven a automobile from the center seat and experienced the optimal-ness and why F1 & other Sports cars prefer to have their driver in the center, you'll never want to go back to a Left/Right handed driving position.

Center Driving Position or Pilot Position = Best for Driving/Flying Experience.
That...doesn't answer my question at all.
 
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We should be moving beyond (Left/Right)-handed driving positions in the future.

I know the realitys of production budgets wouldn't easily allow it.
Starships seem to operate on a similar principal, IE with rare exceptions the helm is typically located on either the right or left side of the front of the bridge. Likewise runabouts and some types of shuttlecraft have their pilot sit on either the left or right as opposed to a center position. With that in mind it's not that much of a stretch ground vehicles of the future still have the driver sit on the left or right side as opposed to a center position. After all, why mess with something that's worked since the days of a horse and buggy?
 
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