Gravity During Walk to V'Ger

[CoveTom]

I was watching a clip from TMP and it got me thinking.

As Kirk and company are about to take the elevator to the outside of the saucer section and proceed to walk across the "bridge" to V'Ger, Chekov says "I read an oxygen gravity envelope forming outside the Enterprise." And, indeed, when our heroes step onto the saucer, there does appear to be normal, Earth-like gravity.

But if V'Ger had created a "bubble" of gravity around the Enterprise for them, wouldn't that make it rather hard for the Enterprise herself to continue just floating there?

 

[Maurice]

V'ger can do anything...






















...well, except wipe off its nameplate.

 

[David cgc]

Well, they never mentioned that last tractor beam releasing the ship...

 

[Vger23]

It is the same as the artificial gravity fields inside the ship.

 

[F. King Daniel]

But if V'Ger had created a "bubble" of gravity around the Enterprise for them, wouldn't that make it rather hard for the Enterprise herself to continue just floating there?

Star Trek Into Darkness and DSC: "The Vulcan Hello" and "Will You Take My Hand?" establish that Trek ships can hover in an atmosphere without fuss.

 

[BigDaveX]

Star Trek Into Darkness and DSC: "The Vulcan Hello" and "Will You Take My Hand?" establish that Trek ships can hover in an atmosphere without fuss.

Heck, even TOS showed the Enterprise doing that, in "Tomorrow is Yesterday". If V'Ger was generating a gravity field of any appreciable magnitude, all that it would likely required would have been Sulu using the thrusters to counteract it.

 

[Timo]

Although of course V'Ger might also have chosen to create a very localized hamster tube for the heroes, one barely affecting the ship at all.

It is sort of amusing that V'Ger is the master of making things disappear (and, in some cases, reappear) but never applies transporter technology to anything much. Or to anything else besides turning its enemies or targets of interest into archived data, at any rate. Perhaps that is advanced transporter tech through and through? Yet most gods just teleport our heroes from A to B, while this never occurs to V'Ger.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Marsden]

I was watching a clip from TMP and it got me thinking.

As Kirk and company are about to take the elevator to the outside of the saucer section and proceed to walk across the "bridge" to V'Ger, Chekov says "I read an oxygen gravity envelope forming outside the Enterprise." And, indeed, when our heroes step onto the saucer, there does appear to be normal, Earth-like gravity.

But if V'Ger had created a "bubble" of gravity around the Enterprise for them, wouldn't that make it rather hard for the Enterprise herself to continue just floating there?

Unless the edge of the "bubble" was only up to the edge of the ship.

Btw, @Maurice is right, V'ger is nearly omnipotent . But that's part of the plot, it has all of this power and it's not "happy"