How does the Voyager land on a planet?

[Timo]

I don't think power going out by accident ought to be a problem. After all, Starfleet counts on it not happening in deep space where it would mean inevitable death...

Whether the skipper would want to shut down her ship after settling on a solid surface is another matter. For stealth reasons, perhaps? Not for saving power, though, as the ship is designed to stay powered for years to begin with. And maintenance would probably best be carried out in space ("Nightingale" notwithstanding).

I guess those small legs would look more logical if they merely prevented the ship from rolling at landing, while the belly was allowed to touch the ground and take its share of the weight. Anyway, since the ship's structures need to be almost infinitely strong anyway, the problem is not one of failing legs - it's one of the legs sinking in bedrock because they have too little contact area! A belly flop would look more plausible.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[DonIago]

I think we need a "Submit Your Voyager Landing Mishap Video" thread now.

 

[froot]

I think we need a "Submit Your Voyager Landing Mishap Video" thread now.

That would be pretty damn funny. It would be a lot of work, though, unless doing something in MS Paint is acceptable!

 

[Destructor]

Everyone runs to the back end when janeway gives the order.

 

[hgfggg]

For taking off, the stubby legs suddenly yell "warpy, turn on!".

 

[Captrek]

Why did they not just put 2 legs coming out the saucer section ? to balance the design out.

Why didn’t they just have it morph into a giant robot when it lands? If box office take is anything to go by, that’s a winning strategy, and maybe Harry could get something for his grandpa’s VISOR and score with Seven.

 

[Guy Gardener]

There's every possibility that Seven's downstairs plumbing had been plugged, sealed and threaded with cybernetic ware that she wouldn't have had the facilities to be intimate with anyone until after several several operations and laborious recovery.

Yup.

All Borg, if even ever so briefly could have been castrated just as well and easily during the assimilation process, which included quite a few people we've seen recovered from Phlox to Tuvok.