How does the Voyager land on a planet?

[froot]

Looking at that drawing (thank you for posting, by the way! I love concept art! Could you imagine drawing with markers that well?) - the other problem about the landing sequence in the 37s becomes pretty apparent - the fact that the ship looked WAY too small compared to the people! The people in that drawing seem a lot more realistic as far as size goes.

But I think the ship's size vs. people size was a known problem after that ep.

 

[froot]

Didn't Mr. Sternbach use to post here? I wonder if anyone grilled him about it.

I still post here. As some folks have pointed out, the ship does basically "hover" using its impulse engines, with only a small amount of mass resting on the feet. Just to keep the thing steady on a surface. As to the design of the legs, the sizes and shapes were determined by available volume within the engineering hull. Anything bigger would have looked silly and would have eaten up too much internal space for other structures and equipment. Them's the breaks. And no, there weren't any beams shooting out of the hull. Perhaps one is thinking of FORBIDDEN PLANET.

Rick

Wow, thank you for the reply! I have no idea where that dumb beam idea came from. I must have dreamed it.

I guess that works great unless something unfortunate happens to the ol' impulse engines while they're sitting on the planet!

 

[Takeru]

Wasn''t it hiding while landing at one point in the Vadwaar story (dragons teeth.) and the baddies were carpet bombing Vadwaarville to find her... The Impulse Engine would have been off surely?

Yes, they were most likely off and that's not even a problem. If I can accept some magical crystals that somehow turn antimatter into warp drive fuel (or the existence of FTL drives in the first place!) or that people from different planets are genetically compatible and make adorable babies, I can accept that Voyager uses a special future metal that allows its tiny legs to support all of the ship's weight.

 

[Klingon Empire]

Actually, there has been talk about how Transparent Aluminum is extremely tolerant of weight and pressure, but since the legs aren't see-through, I doubt that they use it in the struts.

 

[Takeru]

Why not? It's not like Transparent Aluminum stops working if it's painted.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I think the stuff that isn't see-through might be considerably stronger than transparent aluminium... then why was it scotty's first choice of material?

Oh.

because they had to put the bugger up and make a box with hand tools

 

[F. King Daniel]

Re: The thread hijack thread

If only Voyager didn't have that big-ass warp core clogging up so much space in the engineering hull...

Well, according to the cutaway display at the back of the bridge, Voyager had two warp cores in the engineering hull (clearly B'Elanna never bothered to tell Janeway!), and according to the huge shuttlebay seen in "Drive", Voyager's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.

 

[Guy Gardener]

But bastards stole their warp core at one point.

Maybe Carey didn't tell B'Elanna either?

Saving it for a Christmas present?

 

[Mytran]

Maybe it was looted for spare parts early on to keep the main warp core going?

 

[Guy Gardener]

As in like every time Chuckles drove a shuttle into the side of some planet?

 

[The_Baroness]

If I'd borrowed my mums car and crashed into a lamppost, she'd never had let me drive it again.

You'd think Janeway would learn than to keep letting chuckles borrow the spaceships.

And after all that, she lets HIM drive Voyager home!

 

[froot]

If I'd borrowed my mums car and crashed into a lamppost, she'd never had let me drive it again.

You'd think Janeway would learn than to keep letting chuckles borrow the spaceships.

And after all that, she lets HIM drive Voyager home!

You know, before Nemesis came out, I was fairly certain that he crashed the damn thing and everyone died as soon as the camera turned off.

 

[KNH]

Now now, he may be a bad pilot but he's no Deanna Troi.

 

[Takeru]

Now now, he may be a bad pilot but he's no Deanna Troi.

You're right, he's worse! She had an exploding warp core under her ass and her captain's orders on a display when she crashed her ships, what are his excuses, "I have no idea where that thing came from, I was flying my shuttle and suddenly this moon jumps right in front of me ... I tried to stop, but it was too late. "?

 

[Guy Gardener]

Deanna could have requested the Joy stick?

She's supposed to be very sexually forward, but Dee crashed the ship because she didn't want he boys to spend the next 4 years making hand job jokes about how well she can drive a stick.

This isn't reformschool!

The Saucer has it's own impulse engines.

Once they disconnected form the explody bit it was just a question of landing or parking in orbit.

iN the real world.

they wanted to crash the ship, but I don't think that there was justification for that crash given the competency of the officers and the 7 years we've had to investigate their tech that we know what that ship is capable of.

 

[DonIago]

I was under the impression that the saucer's power systems were compromised at that point, and then the warp core explosion basically slammed the saucer into the planet's atmosphere in a way it wasn't designed for.

That being said, I haven't rewatched it in quite some time.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Picard might have even told her to land.

Any one could have been driving, but the ship had to crash.

 

[The_Baroness]

Now now, he may be a bad pilot but he's no Deanna Troi.

No?

Voyager crashed into a planet once, killing everyone on board and burying itself under ice.

Why?

It was following the Delta Flyer, piloted by Chuckles.

 

[froot]

Now now, he may be a bad pilot but he's no Deanna Troi.

No?

Voyager crashed into a planet once, killing everyone on board and burying itself under ice.

Why?

It was following the Delta Flyer, piloted by Chuckles.

To be fair, that little mishap was technically Harry's fault with his inaccurate phase variance thingydoodle.

(...ack, I'm standing up for Chakotay's driving skills.)

 

[The_Baroness]

Now now, he may be a bad pilot but he's no Deanna Troi.

No?

Voyager crashed into a planet once, killing everyone on board and burying itself under ice.

Why?

It was following the Delta Flyer, piloted by Chuckles.

To be fair, that little mishap was technically Harry's fault with his inaccurate phase variance thingydoodle.

(...ack, I'm standing up for Chakotay's driving skills.)

Meh. It was probably Chakotays fault somehow.