Kelvin Universe Warp Speeds

[Smellmet]

But if we have to debate and try and retcon details regarding a single scene, then that makes it a poorly written one.

 

[fireproof78]

I figured it was just inertia and gravity...

Also, if debating and explaining means it is poorly written then TWOK is terrible

 

[Kor]

... I heard that they dumbed down the techy side a bit to appeal to a wider audience.

What techy side? The tech details in Trek have never been consistent from one series or movie to the next, or even from one episode to the next. It all works however the plot needs it to work for that particular story.

Kor

 

[Ovation]

What techy side? The tech details in Trek have never been consistent from one series or movie to the next, or even from one episode to the next. It all works however the plot needs it to work for that particular story.

Kor

Precisely.

 

[Captain Thomas Wilson]

I remember a story that at a convention in the USA, Rick Sternbach, who often chat to on Facebook, was on a panel and was asked "How do the Heisenberg Compensators work in the transporter?" His answer?

"Very well, thank you"

Genius.

 

[Timo]

But if we have to debate and try and retcon details regarding a single scene, then that makes it a poorly written one.

I'd argue the exact opposite. Whenever the writers try to be precise about these things, they fail. When they leave all the 'xplaining to the audience as an exercise, entertainment quite possibly follows.

Case in point, ST:ID itself. When Khan spells out why holding the corpsicles hostage will not work, he says the cool "I'll walk over your cooling corpses" line, but the writers (or more likely the editors) then add the filler voice-over to the reaction shot, involving "life support behind the aft nacelle", which is an exclusively negative thing ("behind aft" already being bad!). Just leave it to the audience to figure out that Khan can shoot with utmost precision using heavy weapons (we saw him do that twice in the movie already, for chrissakes).

Timo Saloniemi

 

[NCC-73515]

What techy side? The tech details in Trek have never been consistent from one series or movie to the next, or even from one episode to the next. It all works however the plot needs it to work for that particular story.

Kor

Most of it was quite consistent in TNG-VOY

 

[F. King Daniel]

Most of it was quite consistent in TNG-VOY

Nah, they just produced Encyclopedias and manuals that pretended it was consistent. The Enterprise-D blinking across 900 light years in "Conspiracy", Professor Galen travelling half the galaxy in a shuttlecraft, DS9 being a scene break away from any planet in the Alpha Quadrant via Runabout. The Romulan Neutral Zone being sometimes weeks away and sometimes a superquick warp jump from Earth.

 

[NCC-73515]

Nah, they just produced Encyclopedias and manuals that pretended it was consistent. The Enterprise-D blinking across 900 light years in "Conspiracy", Professor Galen travelling half the galaxy in a shuttlecraft, DS9 being a scene break away from any planet in the Alpha Quadrant via Runabout. The Romulan Neutral Zone being sometimes weeks away and sometimes a superquick warp jump from Earth.

It's called cuts

 

[fireproof78]

Nah, they just produced Encyclopedias and manuals that pretended it was consistent. The Enterprise-D blinking across 900 light years in "Conspiracy", Professor Galen travelling half the galaxy in a shuttlecraft, DS9 being a scene break away from any planet in the Alpha Quadrant via Runabout. The Romulan Neutral Zone being sometimes weeks away and sometimes a superquick warp jump from Earth.

What's more impressive is how much we buy in to the illusion.