Space Plane on the Enterprise intro

[caisson2delta]

Sounds possible - except that I'd think aerospike engines would be utterly antiquated by that time. After all, Khan in the 1990s had access to a ship where onboard gravity could be manipulated. Surely this gravity technology would also have propulsion applications, especially for craft that are intended to move stuff up and down a gravity well?

Or did Khan secretly retrofit his DY-100 with artificial gravity which he himself and his fellow superbrains had developed, whereas the rest of the world used DY-100 vessels that had no AG?

Timo Saloniemi

This seems reasonable, but I always wondered why a sleeper ship would require artificial gravity. Perhaps you are right about Kahn and his ship having certain, unique features.

 

[ChristopherPike]

Kind of sad this vessel was an extrapolation of, up until now a possible Space Shuttle future... when of course, in reality we're going straight back to strapping men and women to the top of rockets, in order to get to space.