Sure it has landing gears, but...
That saucer section, nose thing, whatever it is called...
it's a little top heavy!
That saucer section, nose thing, whatever it is called...
it's a little top heavy!
How does the Voyager land on a planet?
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Everyone runs to the back end when janeway gives the order.
Voyager's little chicken feet were embarrasing. I don't care about magic fields, they do not look believable.
I read somewhere (probably"A Vision of the Future") that Voyager's feet are always hidden behind rocks or trees when the ship is landed because they look so ridiculous and implausible.
They should have had Will Smith Wild Wild West style spider legs extend from Voyager's hull when it landed
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I read somewhere (probably"A Vision of the Future") that Voyager's feet are always hidden behind rocks or trees when the ship is landed because they look so ridiculous and implausible.
They should have had Will Smith Wild Wild West style spider legs extend from Voyager's hull when it landed
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Well. I'm a deadbeat, not an engineer, but my main concern was always whether it would be able to get OFF the planet.
I recall something about a beam of sorts extending from the saucer to the ground to keep the ship from tipping over. But maybe I just dreamed it.
The sequence with the little chicken feet extending looks so cool until you realize how tiny they are, lol. Seconded on giving the poor ship some sweet spider legs.
The sequence with the little chicken feet extending looks so cool until you realize how tiny they are, lol. Seconded on giving the poor ship some sweet spider legs.
The first time Voyager landed (in The 37s) the area below the saucer was hidden behind some rocks, to avoid showing how front heavy the ship looked.
By the time of Demon the ship was only shown from a rear POV perspective when it landed. With the front part of the saucer no longer visible, it didn't look quite so ludicrous.
By the time of Demon the ship was only shown from a rear POV perspective when it landed. With the front part of the saucer no longer visible, it didn't look quite so ludicrous.
What?
How is flying at 20 percent of light speed through real space threading the corona of a fricking sun less taxing than "gravity"?
It's called a structural integrity field people.
How is flying at 20 percent of light speed through real space threading the corona of a fricking sun less taxing than "gravity"?
It's called a structural integrity field people.
It seems the producers were aware from early on about the apparent incongruity between the size of the legs and the size of the ship. Here's a shot from "The Art of Star Trek"
Although there's no doubt that the ship could easily support itself using AG systems and so forth, it's not much use if the power fails!
Although there's no doubt that the ship could easily support itself using AG systems and so forth, it's not much use if the power fails!
Gams that go all the way down tot he floor?
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
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?
