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Spoilers Prodigy ship revealed

Well, my post was a joke (SNL reference), but since you asked...
How do you know if Scotty even has a boat?

"That suits me, I just bought a boat." (STVI)

He's been gone from the world for over 50 years by the time he got a Shuttle.

75 years, but what's a quarter century here and there. Anyway, are you going to be the one to explain to Scotty, when he returns, what happened to his boat if it isn't right where he left it?
 
Knowing Scotty the boat was either forwarded to Norpin V ahead of the Jenolen's departure or it was being held in a cargo hold aboard the Jenolen and went down with the ship.
 
I mean, even the people who have worked on the shows have called the main ship a character.

It's not a unique concept. I, and others, consider the Impala in Supernatural to be a character as much as the boys.
 
It's a concept I have a hard time wrapping my head around. There are objects I own that have "character", but I don't see it for most fictional ships. It's a setting to my eyes.
 
The TOS and Movie Enterprise comes closest to being an actual character in my eyes. Kirk himself called her a woman, beautiful and almost a living, breathing creature that sustained them all on their missions. When she was finally destroyed in TSFS one of the reasons her demise hit so hard is that we'd known her for so long and she was as important to the missions of Kirk, Spock and his crew as the other flesh-and-blood members aboard her.
 
I don't see what's wrong with referring to the ships as characters. They might not be as important as the heroes, but they can and often do feel like characters.
 
The TOS and Movie Enterprise comes closest to being an actual character in my eyes. Kirk himself called her a woman, beautiful and almost a living, breathing creature that sustained them all on their missions. When she was finally destroyed in TSFS one of the reasons her demise hit so hard is that we'd known her for so long and she was as important to the missions of Kirk, Spock and his crew as the other flesh-and-blood members aboard her.
Says more about Kirk than the Enterprise, IMO.
 
Says more about Kirk than the Enterprise, IMO.
and scotty. In a way that scene on the mountain with them looking at the enterprise burning is poignant because it is about them, about what they feel.

Still, if characters can get attached to a ship why shouldn’t the viewers?
 
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