how big was nero ship?????
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30,737.3 feet long, according to both the bluray and the "art of" book.
Perhaps Nero was compensating for something
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Perhaps Nero was compensating for something
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That's over nine kilometers long--holy freakin' fanboy!
That's over nine kilometers long--holy freakin' fanboy!
Well most of that space would probably be devoted to ore storage and processing so the extreme size makes sense, especially if the Narada was intended to operate independently in deep space for extended periods of time away from any other mining facilities.
you could put an eye out with that thing.
I guess the Romulans never thought of building ore processing stations...but then the Narada is big enough to carry about six or seven such facilities (using DS9 as an example) with plenty of room to spare.That's over nine kilometers long--holy freakin' fanboy!
Well most of that space would probably be devoted to ore storage and processing so the extreme size makes sense, especially if the Narada was intended to operate independently in deep space for extended periods of time away from any other mining facilities.
Nah, they just wanted to Nero to have a really big-ass ship in the movie--something big enough to take on dozens of Klingon and Federation starships all by itself.
"A simple mining vessel..." Yeah, right...
Well, "simple mining platforms" today tend to dwarf warships. And nine kilometers of Narada would still probably look comically small when gnawing at an asteroid big enough for profitable mining.
Although once again, the "official" figures for size were probably picked without worrying about compatibility with what we see on screen. In order for the Kelvin (about half a klick long in official estimates, give or take a couple of hundred meters) to fit between the tentacles, let alone fly for a full minute in there at considerable speed, the villain ship might have to be even bigger than that. OTOH, when we see the Kelvin disintegrating, she's about fifteen of those "razor blades" long - the blades that appear on large and medium tentacles but are not evident on the smallest ones. Fifteen razor blades on the smallest otherwise visible bladed tentacle would still represent about a quarter of the villain ship's total length! Figures between 5 and 10 kilometers look acceptable for most shots, but others might have been artistically fudged, confusing the size issue.
Timo Saloniemi
Although once again, the "official" figures for size were probably picked without worrying about compatibility with what we see on screen. In order for the Kelvin (about half a klick long in official estimates, give or take a couple of hundred meters) to fit between the tentacles, let alone fly for a full minute in there at considerable speed, the villain ship might have to be even bigger than that. OTOH, when we see the Kelvin disintegrating, she's about fifteen of those "razor blades" long - the blades that appear on large and medium tentacles but are not evident on the smallest ones. Fifteen razor blades on the smallest otherwise visible bladed tentacle would still represent about a quarter of the villain ship's total length! Figures between 5 and 10 kilometers look acceptable for most shots, but others might have been artistically fudged, confusing the size issue.
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30,737.3 feet long, according to both the bluray and the "art of" book.
Perhaps Nero was compensating for something
I think this thread is compensating for something....
So do entire towns...
It had to be big to keep his ego in lol !!!! That's no moon !!!! It's a space station !!! Oh sorry wrong film !!!
Nero's ship was bas basically the most impractical, deadliest looking ship ever.
^ a title it took from the Death Star.
Remember the Narada had no phasers or disruptors of any kind. It just had some sort of cluster bombs that are probably just 24th-century heavy demolition and mining torpedos, like what a mining ship would use to blow asteroids to dust. And once an asteroid has been pulverized into dust, how is a mining ship going to collect and store the raw materials? Some sort of electrostatic collection would work, but for that to work, a ship would need a lot of surface area. The best way to have a lot of surface area would be to have a lot of arms and spines like that -- it'd have thousands of times the surface area of a tube. And it would still need a lot of space to store an asteroid's worth of precious elements.
Not really. The Death Star is a sphere, which makes perfect sense. And it's a space station first and foremost. The super laser was just a bonus. Nothing impractical about that.
...makes perfect sense...nothing impractical... with the exception of that "design feature" vent.
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Not to get off topic, but I disagree.
The resources involved in building a station of such scale and power would be a monumental undertaking.
Given that it was designed to do only one thing, and something half the Imperial Starfleet could also do says to me that the Empire could have been destroying/ending all life on planets that were not completely loyal for decades before the Death Star was operational.
In the end it's entire job could have been carried out by an armada of Star Destroyers that would be astronomically less vulnerable to a single starfighter pilot no matter how strong in the force he might be.
In the end the resources that went into building the Death Star would have been better going just about anywhere else.
You argue ressources in a fantasy scifi movie? They turned an entire planet into a city and built the second Death Star twice the size in like two years.
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