I demand that a character break the fourth wall and give that exact explanation to reassure us, or I will forever boycott the franchise.![]()
Erm... is this going to be this film's version of the Blue Warp Nacelles thread?![]()
The long awaited Q movie appearance rears it's ugly head...I demand that a character break the fourth wall and give that exact explanation to reassure us, or I will forever boycott the franchise.![]()
But will they give an explanation for how the 4th wall was broken?
And we know from ST09 that starships are capable of ascending from a planetary surface into orbit.
The thing that's funny is that Trekkies have, for 46 years, been suspending disbelief in a massive, unconventionally designed starship traveling through the galaxy at faster-than-light warp speed, shooting phaser (better than laser!) beams and photon (eh??) torpedoes at klingon warriors, omnipotent beings, cyborgs, space amoebas, and Spock's Brain. They use a transporter to beam their energy patterns down to planets. They generate gravity with a graviton generator (and magic deck plates). They use nadions and cadions and baryons and chronitons (what??) and whatsitons and TRONitons to open/close subspace/wormhole/singularity/rift/void/eddy/fissure/scaryfrakkingholes in space, and the aliens all have 2 legs, 2 arms, and funny nose/forehead/neck ridges and weird ears. (I know, tholians... but they are an exception, not a rule lol).
We've seen ships fly so close to a star they should be burned to a crisp in a microsecond or crushed in the atmosphere of a gas giant. We've seen a starship land, we've seen it fly through fluidic space (waht??), and we've seen them go underwater. We've seen them use transwarp conduits and quantum singularities/slipstreams to travel hundreds of lightyears in minutes. We've even seen someone occupy every place in the universe at once before de-evolving and mating with the captain (ewww).
Its only because this is "Abrams and his bastardized Trek" that people are coming down so hard and being so inflexible that any explanation (which should not really be needed if it serves story or adds to the uniqueness of Star Trek, particularly in light of the above) is automatically too outlandish, or somehow an affront to Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek, and the Q Continuum. I agree with Abrams 100%. Enjoy the reruns. I'm happy for Star Trek to keep going boldly.
I really don't care about the technical reasoning behind it being underwater, I just want a logical mission reason for it.
I really don't care about the technical reasoning behind it being underwater, I just want a logical mission reason for it.
my impression is that there isn't a good mission reason for it...
I really don't care about the technical reasoning behind it being underwater, I just want a logical mission reason for it.
my impression is that there isn't a good mission reason for it...
Considering the 9-minute preview end prior to that scene ending, my impression is that we can't tell either way if they will provide us with a logical mission reason or not.
Maybe they mention the reason in the 10th or 11th minute. Considering that they were busy trying to save Spock, I doubt the crew would waste time debating with each other logic of being underwater. They may wait until Spock is safely back on the ship to hold that discussion -- or it may even be implied by their dialogue WHILE they are saving Spock.
Pretty sure there is a warning on the underside of the Enterprise that says "Never get wet or feed after midnight".my impression is that there isn't a good mission reason for it...
Considering the 9-minute preview end prior to that scene ending, my impression is that we can't tell either way if they will provide us with a logical mission reason or not.
Maybe they mention the reason in the 10th or 11th minute. Considering that they were busy trying to save Spock, I doubt the crew would waste time debating with each other logic of being underwater. They may wait until Spock is safely back on the ship to hold that discussion -- or it may even be implied by their dialogue WHILE they are saving Spock.
thats not the point i was making. i really don't care if we get an explanation for how it can go underwater. its capable of bloody interstellar travel... a little moistness shouldn't do it much harm![]()
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