Should there be cars in Discovery?
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At least it's not a 1958 Plymouth Fury.
The Fury will of course be driven by Kes.
I say have the away teams driving a jeep on the planets. And before anyone starts crying about Nemesis, the novels have a 23rd century ship doing this.
If the car is a time traveling DeLorean, sure. Anything besides that, i'd give a very hard No to using cars in Star Trek. Hover vehicles get a pass if they don't resemble cars too much and actual fly, not just hover above the ground and aren't carried on any of the ships, just used by people living on planets.
No. I don't ever want to see Earth.
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Hovering cars just seem like a waste of energy compared to good old wheels.
There was a car that flew by in an establishing shot on the Cambridge campus, but there's no proof that was Data's. And even if it was, the implication would be that he gave the keys to someone else at that moment.
Cars have been around for over 100 years and folks still ride horses and in some cases donkeys, even if its for leisure, no reasons cars cannot still be around in the future.
Horse carriage racing and polo playing are not done with cars.
Horse carriage racing and polo playing are not done with cars.
Horses are a renewable resource. They fuck, they reproduce, it's pretty automatic but of course you can breed them with relatively little effort.
Cars on the other hand need a sophisticated production system to get made. There are horse races but there aren't any races for 17th century carts. Even races for cars from the 1910s are very rare because no company still produces them anymore.
Do you think there will be production lines for 20th century cars in the 24th century?
Unless manufacturing becomes an incredibly trivial task (like: replicate a VW Golf in 1 second), I don't think it's even possible to see many old cars around. But even if it was easily possible to produce them, why should there be a relevant amount of people interested in driving them?
It's not like we see an insane amount of people today who want to do races in 17th century carts or own one.
Horses on the other hand... are always current. They do all their updating themselves.
Why would they need cars on an asteroid?
No, but there might be a production line for 24th century cars in the 24th century. I doubt all residents on new human colonies are going around in shuttles. Colonies tend to have a 'back to basics' way of living which for them would be their version of a 23rd century 4 wheel drive.
I wouldn't mind cars in Discovery. It wouldn't be the first time in Star Trek.
I did address that in my post...
It's one of the top 10 most expensive shows of all time. Surely it would have the budget or do it in CGI. Even Babylon 5 had some CGI land vehicles.
In all seriousness, a Federation exploration rover (like those below from many other sci-fi franchises) would be nice but I doubt that Discovery has the budget for it.
Prometheus transport
Mass Effect Mako
The Martian rover
Battlestar Galactica Landram
Aliens APC
Damnation Alley Landmaster
Lost In Space Chariot
Ark II... Ark II
I would definitely be interested in seeing the Starfleet version of (something like) those. And no, I don't think the Argo counts as it. Neither does this!
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