In the 2009 movie, why do Kirk and McCoy take a shuttle to the Enterprise instead of beaming up?
Transporter Room
- Thread starter Admiral Jean-Luc Picard
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Because the makers of the film wanted the Enterprise reveal instead of them just appearing on the ship I guess.
Well they couldn't do a travel pod since he was just a cadet.. Could have had the ship in the dock, and beaming up to the dock and looking out a window at the ship?
It would have been reasonably fun to show a glorious pan towards the ship, with the camera then diving deep into her, showing Kirk materializing, and an officer then telling him to proceed to his station on Deck 47½, the one without any windows or glowing tubes or even beeping blinkies...
Timo Saloniemi
Timo Saloniemi
Because it wasn't just Kirk and McCoy -- it was a shuttle load of new cadets.
It felt like they were copying the scene from the first movie. That scene existed for the audience, to show off the ndw Enterprise model. There was also a plot reason, the transporter was down, and Scotty was showing off.
So beam up 5 or so at a time. That'll still be faster than taking shuttles from Earth.
JJ was asked in '09, and said he wanted the transporter to have a big introduction when Kirk and Sulu fall off the rig later on.
And since they use shuttles in Into Darkness too, it just seems transporters are a little less trusted in the Kelvin Universe.
And since they use shuttles in Into Darkness too, it just seems transporters are a little less trusted in the Kelvin Universe.
The transporter room doesn't need a nig intro. We all know what it is, what it does. We expect to see it as much as we do the bridge, engineering, or sickbay.
JJ Abrams says he's a fan of the original show. He should know the transporters are the go-to means of going to and from the ship. The shuttles are for when the transporter fails, can't lock, or when the away team needs to go beyond transporter range.
Why do they have shuttles at all? They only show up when plot demands it.
The transporters could be down or unable to lock. Perhaps the mothership is on a mission while a shuttlecraft is sent out as a transport or on a mission of its own.
Transporters in the Kelvin Universe appear to be less reliable than other forms of transportation. They require the target to hold still to ensure safe transport, and have limited adaptability. The shuttles seem preferred for mass transportation of the crew of cadets being sent to each ship.
Is there anything in the films that confirms this claim? Seems more like JJ Abrams doesn't understand that shuttles are auxiliary to transporters.
I would say that Chekov's efforts to manually correct for gravity, as well as Scotty's remarks about his professor's thinking that the transporter was limited indicate that there is less trust and emphasis on transporter technology.
It's not point blank, on the nose, "We don't trust the transporter" but it is there in the subtext.
Same reason as in TWoK, TVH and the last Lower Decka episode: no real reason.
If it felt like that...well, Abrams said it wanted to do an homage to that scene.
Didn’t quite work for me (too hectic), but ok.
Nope. Transporters were fully functional and used shortly afterwards.
2009 Star Trek was a reboot, aimed at non-fans. Yes it did need an intro.
Unless you want to go to the Klingon homeworld, or beam onto a warp-speed ship.
That's after the introduction of new information.
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