Trekmovie photos of Memory Alpha
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Oh, I don't know... Those domes could be at most a few kilometers across (and probably would be but a tenth of that), making the moonlet no bigger than 30-50 km in diameter. Far, far too small to be spherical, or to have craters and rilles looking like that.
Completely unrealistic. But sort of pretty.
Timo Saloniemi
Completely unrealistic. But sort of pretty.
Timo Saloniemi
According to a Mike Okuda quote in the TrekMovie article, "each of the domes must be similar to the Superdome." That's 210 meters across. Being generous and assuming that the smaller domes are c. 200 m in diameter, that would suggest the whole planetoid is only about 6-7 km in diameter. Way, way, way too small to be remotely spherical.
And you're assuming a culture that has the power to travel to other epochs can't also create a spherical planetoid?
Plus, Memory Alpha seemed to have normal earth gravity. Who knows? Maybe there is a mini black hole at the center of that moon that powers the whole time travel process. That could create enough of a gravity well to give it a spherical shape.
Plus, Memory Alpha seemed to have normal earth gravity. Who knows? Maybe there is a mini black hole at the center of that moon that powers the whole time travel process. That could create enough of a gravity well to give it a spherical shape.
Or they just built the same sort of artificial gravity systems into the facility that they use on all their starships.
It would have been cooler (and more accurate for the stated sized) to see a lumpy asteroid shape with structures on it, but it's another case of budget trumps science.
And it gives us the opportunity to see if we can figure out "Why this could be."
I'm going with the theory that it's a built planetoid and the artificial gravity generators pulled it into the spherical shape.
And it gives us the opportunity to see if we can figure out "Why this could be."
I'm going with the theory that it's a built planetoid and the artificial gravity generators pulled it into the spherical shape.
Time travel??? I think you're confusing this with some other episode. Memory Alpha is just a databank. It's the Federation's Library of Congress.
Turns out that the image above is just preliminary. Below is the final version of Memory Alpha:
Oops. I confused it with the library in All Our Yesterdays. My error.
Turns out that the image above is just preliminary. Below is the final version of Memory Alpha:
Sheesh! They forgot the landing pads for the Eagles.
I wouldn't say more advanced. If anything, Memory Alpha as shown here looks simpler, an earlier stage of construction.
From a CGI standpoint it's quicker to make a sphere and stick some hemispheres and tubes on it for the base, but this doesn't make sense to me. Aside from the fact a planetoid at this scale would likely be an irregular lump, it seems to me most of Memory Alpha should have been constructed inside. It's better protected and better utilizes the available space. Modeling fewer, smaller structures on a sphere, implying a Ceres-sized object, is still a simple, cheap job while eliminating the scale issues this presents.
From a CGI standpoint it's quicker to make a sphere and stick some hemispheres and tubes on it for the base, but this doesn't make sense to me. Aside from the fact a planetoid at this scale would likely be an irregular lump, it seems to me most of Memory Alpha should have been constructed inside. It's better protected and better utilizes the available space. Modeling fewer, smaller structures on a sphere, implying a Ceres-sized object, is still a simple, cheap job while eliminating the scale issues this presents.
...Of course, it might be that those domes aren't for habitation or storage at all. The actual archives might be housed in the building complex to the right of the centermost of the seven small subspace antennas, each of which is only 100 km across. That is, in the middle of the pentagon of the five 200 km antennas that have been erected on this 2,500 km moonlet.
I mean, we can't seriously question the Federation's ability to build vast structures - especially if they are simple domes without much internal structure. The real reason we think those domes aren't hundreds of kilometers across is because of what we think lies within. Memory Alpha would never need that much storage space. But it could easily need very large communications machinery.
Timo Saloniemi
I mean, we can't seriously question the Federation's ability to build vast structures - especially if they are simple domes without much internal structure. The real reason we think those domes aren't hundreds of kilometers across is because of what we think lies within. Memory Alpha would never need that much storage space. But it could easily need very large communications machinery.
Timo Saloniemi
My sister and her b/f picked me up a copy of "The Art of Star Trek". Inside there was an image of a starbase built into an asteroid, possibly for Phase II.
It might have sufficed for those who don't like the image created, but somehow what's shown above seems to fit the simpler images of space docks etc seen in the other remastered episodes.
It might have sufficed for those who don't like the image created, but somehow what's shown above seems to fit the simpler images of space docks etc seen in the other remastered episodes.
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