Starships underwater?
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Why would a starship ever need to be underwater?
Probably, but it wouldn’t be graceful. Whether it would have any buoyancy or sink like a fresh egg, I don’t know. They could fill the shuttle bay for ballast and manoeuvre on thrusters. How the sensitive external arrays would cope with salt water and marine detritus I don’t know.
Or they send down an aqua-shuttle supported by officers from Cetacean Ops.
And yet Voyager decided we needed to know that. Episode: "Thirty Days".
Emersion shielding so the delta flyer could go under water, as well as alien vessels that traveled under water and in space.
If the plot required it, of course it could.
If the plot required it.
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this reminds me of a scene from Futurama...
Farnsworth: Dear Lord, that's over 150 atmospheres of pressure.
Fry: How many atmospheres can this ship withstand?
Farnsworth: Well it's a spaceship, so I'd say anywhere between zero and one.
Farnsworth: Dear Lord, that's over 150 atmospheres of pressure.
Fry: How many atmospheres can this ship withstand?
Farnsworth: Well it's a spaceship, so I'd say anywhere between zero and one.
That's pretty funny, but we're talking about starships with structural integrity fields, inertial dampeners, deflector shields, and all sorts of other opportunities to technosolve the issues.
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JJ Trek 2009 answered that pretty well.
I still don't get why they were in the water.
They were hiding at the bottom of the ocean so the ship wouldn't be visible to the indigenous people's usual vantage point, to prevent cultural contamination.
Kor
It was established that transporters weren't working because of the powerful magnetic fields in that region of the planet.
Kor
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