The building of SF vessels?
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http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Utopia_Planitia_Fleet_Yards
There you go, that should give you a lot of info.
There you go, that should give you a lot of info.
Well here's the thing. The new Trek movie is taking place in a new time line, new universe and all that. So in that universe, i guess they were. In the Prime Trek universe, they were not. So just take that how you want to.
BTW, welcome to the board.
BTW, welcome to the board.
I hope i managed to answer your question. If not, there are so many other people here that are better versed in this.
That link you sent me was fantastic. Thank you! I am still going through it. It was just something that caught my eye during the movie. The other thing that caught my eye was the time it took the entire red matter to consume the Narada, the Romulan ship. It seems to me that if a single drop can cause an entire to "implode" into a black hole in 4 minutes, the entire mother load should wipe out any vessel in nano-seconds. Right? Don't get me wrong.... I loved this movie. I just have a bad tendency of picking up those types of things in ANY movie.
Thanks again for answering. There may be better versed people on this site, but none as quick (or as interested) in answering. Cheers, Lisa.
Thanks again for answering. There may be better versed people on this site, but none as quick (or as interested) in answering. Cheers, Lisa.
Yeah, that was kind of stupid, but then again, so is Kirk being promoted from Cadet to Captain (Leuitenant, OK. Luitenant Commander, maybe, but CAPTAIN?).
The real answer, of course, is that it takes as long as is dramatically appropriate.
For a non-meta answer, though, I would offer that the effectiveness of the red matter is related to the mass available for it to use when it is set off. So at the core of a planet, it's very fast and very effective, but just set off in the Jellyfish, impacted on the surface of the Narada? Not so much.
With all the criticism on the Enterprise being built on Earth, the old dedication plaque named it's birth as 'San Fransisco'. It stands to reason it was always built on Earth, but now it's built elsewhere.
The real answer, of course, is that it takes as long as is dramatically appropriate.
For a non-meta answer, though, I would offer that the effectiveness of the red matter is related to the mass available for it to use when it is set off. So at the core of a planet, it's very fast and very effective, but just set off in the Jellyfish, impacted on the surface of the Narada? Not so much.
You know, with this line of reasoning you could almost make an argument that this is why it needs to be set off at the center of a planet, where densities are an order of magnitude or two higher.
Maybe it works too slowly in an atmosphere, and the singularity doesn't acheive a critical density preventing it from evaporating into Hawking radiation (devastatingly but not genocidally).
