So how does the enterprise get into orbit? (Spoiler)

[Blackmm]

I'm just curious if it gets there on it's own power or if something else lofts it into orbit.

 

[Michael]

I'm just curious if it gets there on it's own power or if something else lofts it into orbit.

Spoiler: The How

Don't get your hopes up. Because we don't see it getting into space.

 

[Blackmm]

I'm just curious if it gets there on it's own power or if something else lofts it into orbit.

Spoiler: The How

Don't get your hopes up. Because we don't see it getting into space.

Spoiler: The How

Do'h, oh well maybe they used a giant rubber band.

 

[Ayelbourne]

Easy.

Tractor Beam

 

[Michael]

It's lifted by our very imagination.

I love Star Trek!

 

[Trekker4747]

I'm just curious if it gets there on it's own power or if something else lofts it into orbit.

It travels 100s of times the speed of light.

It can break people's mollecular structure down to the subatomic level, convert those atoms to energy, transmit them, and then recombine those atoms into the original matter -the latter half done capable of being done without the benifit of any equipment closer than hundreds of miles away.

The ship can travel though time.

The ship can weather extraordinairy ammounts of damage and impact.

The ship can sweep out of the way microscopic potential collision objects light-years away.

It can detect and display objects light-years away in real-time.

I think, just maybe, somehow it manages to get off a planet's surface thorugh only needing to push through a couple dozen miles of piddly little air.

 

[John Picard]

Slingshot. How else?

 

[Myasishchev]

I'm just curious if it gets there on it's own power or if something else lofts it into orbit.

It travels 100s of times the speed of light.

It can break people's mollecular structure down to the subatomic level, convert those atoms to energy, transmit them, and then recombine those atoms into the original matter -the latter half done capable of being done without the benifit of any equipment closer than hundreds of miles away.

The ship can travel though time.

The ship can weather extraordinairy ammounts of damage and impact.

The ship can sweep out of the way microscopic potential collision objects light-years away.

It can detect and display objects light-years away in real-time.

I think, just maybe, somehow it manages to get off a planet's surface thorugh only needing to push through a couple dozen miles of piddly little air.

No one thinks a starship can't reach escape velocity. That's trivial.

The question is what happens to the planet it's on when it does.

 

[BenRoethig]

Probably through the use of 23rd century equivalent of tugs.

 

[cbspock]

Well we did see the Enterprise fly in the atmosphere in "Tomorrow Is Yesterday" using its impulse engines.


-Chris

 

[urbandk]

I'm just curious if it gets there on it's own power or if something else lofts it into orbit.

It travels 100s of times the speed of light.

It can break people's mollecular structure down to the subatomic level, convert those atoms to energy, transmit them, and then recombine those atoms into the original matter -the latter half done capable of being done without the benifit of any equipment closer than hundreds of miles away.

The ship can travel though time.

The ship can weather extraordinairy ammounts of damage and impact.

The ship can sweep out of the way microscopic potential collision objects light-years away.

It can detect and display objects light-years away in real-time.

I think, just maybe, somehow it manages to get off a planet's surface thorugh only needing to push through a couple dozen miles of piddly little air.

this.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Even without a tug system, Voyager can land (and presumably take back off) and the shuttles reach escape velocity with no problems not to mention Birds of Prey, so I don't see why the E couldn't ascend on its own power.

 

[Llama]

After seeing the movie I don't recall if it states that it WAS the Enterprise on Earth. It could have been any Constitution class starship.

 

[urbandk]

I think Orci and Kurtman said it was the Enterprise, but you're right, the fact that it isn't obviously the Enterprise leaves room for interpretation.

 

[Tom Servo]

Now I keep hearing that there is a shot that shows the NCC-1701 on the side of the nacelle. Is this true? Cause if so then it is in fact the Enterprise.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I think Orci and Kurtman said it was the Enterprise, but you're right, the fact that it isn't obviously the Enterprise leaves room for interpretation.

Somehow having it be the Lexington isn't as dramatically satisfying.

 

[Roshi]

I think Starfleet used doves. Lots and lots of doves...

 

[Mr. Adventure]

 

[Samurai8472]

Yoda

Kirk-I don't believe it

Yoda- that is why you failed

Star Wars reference brought to you by J.J Abrams and Co. Catch the season finales of "Fringe" and "Lost"

 

[Roshi]

Yeah, or something like that! Wow Up + Trek = double promo!