Crashed Starfleet ship in STB?

[arch101]

Isn't there a comic about the nuTrek crew finding April and an earlier Enterprise crashed somewhere? Maybe this is a filmed version of that?

 

[The Wormhole]

Isn't there a comic about the nuTrek crew finding April and an earlier Enterprise crashed somewhere? Maybe this is a filmed version of that?

You're think of IDW's STID prequel Countdown to Darkness. Except, what it's actually about is Captain April having spent the previous twenty years on a pre-warp planet helping in a world war. Yes, twenty years earlier Captain April commanded another Enterprise, but it didn't crash, after April left the ship its XO, Alexander Marcus listed him as KIA and assumed command. The ship remained in service until about two years prior to the story when it was decommissioned.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

Isn't there a comic about the nuTrek crew finding April and an earlier Enterprise crashed somewhere? Maybe this is a filmed version of that?

That would be "Return of the Archons." And it wasn't April, but Kirk. They found the wreckage of USS Archon underneath the city, having been converted into a shrine of sorts by the survivors of the crash and their descendents.

 

[Timo]

...The confusing point there would be that the comic's take on USS Archon is to make her look like Archer's old Enterprise.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[BillJ]

...The confusing point there would be that the comic's take on USS Archon is to make her look like Archer's old Enterprise.

Timo Saloniemi

But didn't it have the modern nacelles?

 

[Timo]

Within the very broad limits of comic art resolution, yes. It wouldn't stop people from getting a bit confused and thinking they saw a comic of the old Enterprise crashing and being found by nuKirk.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Like the Oberth class? Ooh, are we going to see the Grissom with an Abrams-style registry of NCC-0638?

That would be 0awesome!

m0st 0excellent!

 

[Relayer1]

Let's hope it's the Enteprise.

Fingers crossed...

 

[starbuck]

It looks like the corridor of the enterprise or fed class ship, my theory is they crash the ship and out the blue kirk (william shatner) appears in orbit with the original enterprise from the tv show as a tribute to 50yrs, and at the end we get a new enterprise rebuilt for kirk (pine)lol

 

[Dac]

I'll put 100 Quatloos on it being the Enterprise.

 

[Galileo7]

It's probably a different ship but using the same bridge and corridor sets as the Enterprise. Doesn't necessarily mean it's a nuConnie.

Ture it could also be a nuMiranda, or an up dated Kelvin type, or heck maybe even a nuSaladin.

Besides would be the first time they gave another starship a similar bridge as the Enterprise, they did that most of the time in the 80s films.

Agree.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

It's probably a smaller ship. If one the size of a Constitution were to crash (and it's the entire ship and not just the saucer), this would most likely obliterate the planet it crashed on.

 

[Kemaiku]

I'm thinking something pretty small too, the impact would have to be so damn hard to bury a Connie up to her bridge.

Something about the size of some of the ships we see on Marcus' "power wall" display are more likely, given we're going to be getting two or three other starfleet captains in this movie.

 

[Galileo7]

It's probably a smaller ship. If one the size of a Constitution were to crash (and it's the entire ship and not just the saucer), this would most likely obliterate the planet it crashed on.

STID Khan crashed the Vengeance into San Francisco, so I think it can be done with a ship as large a Constitution.

 

[The Wormhole]

^^Beat me to it. Vengeance was much larger than the Enterprise and didn't obliterate the planet it crashed on. Hell, it didn't even completely obliterate the city it crashed in.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I suppose I was thinking of a crash where the ship flies head-on directly into the planet, not a glancing blow like the Vengeance did...

And IIRC, Khan deliberately set the Vengeance's course so that the ship would crash into and obliterate Starfleet Command, specifically. He had an actual target in mind.

 

[Timo]

...So the soft landing might have been because the ship, after hitting Alcatraz, struggled to get back up in the vain hope of actually reaching SF HQ?

I guess a ship about to crash and not specifically intending to create damage would similarly struggle, and (if not already damaged too badly) similarly avoid a planet-splitting impact. Heck, the Voyager crashed from faster-than-warp speeds and still managed to make a soft landing in "Timeless"!

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

...So the soft landing might have been because the ship, after hitting Alcatraz, struggled to get back up in the vain hope of actually reaching SF HQ?

I guess a ship about to crash and not specifically intending to create damage would similarly struggle, and (if not already damaged too badly) similarly avoid a planet-splitting impact. Heck, the Voyager crashed from faster-than-warp speeds and still managed to make a soft landing in "Timeless"!

Timo Saloniemi

The Voyager was doing her best not to crash using, what, maneuvering thrusters only?

 

[Mr. Nova]

It's probably a smaller ship. If one the size of a Constitution were to crash (and it's the entire ship and not just the saucer), this would most likely obliterate the planet it crashed on.

STID Khan crashed the Vengeance into San Francisco, so I think it can be done with a ship as large a Constitution.

From the photos I saw, it looks like an updated version of Archer's ship, with the bulges on either side of the bridge. They don't look like crash damage, but rather like the natural shape of the saucer.

 

[137th Gebirg]

^^^ Precisely why I don't think it's the Enterprise or any others in her class. The fact that there is also the absence of a B/C deck under the bridge that goes straight into the upper surface of the primary hull kind of clinches it for me.