Voyager Landings

[Purdy Bear]

Voyager has landed on planets in some episodes. Do you think such a craft could land or is it just TV hype?

Would the legs/props be able to carry the weight of the ship?

 

[Neutral Zone]

Can't see why it should not have been able to land, after all it was given the equipment to do it. And these ships are usually built on land based dock yards so they would have had to take off.

Voyager in comparison was a small ship to the Enterprise I seem to remember somewhere that Enterprise (TNG) landed (I think?)

 

[Michael]

Voyager has landed on planets in some episodes. Do you think such a craft could land or is it just TV hype?

Would the legs/props be able to carry the weight of the ship?

Well, personally, I'm not much into Trek Tech, but in a universe where faster-than-light propulsion, transporter technology, replicator technology and anti-gravitation devices are everyday technology, a ship like the Voyager sure can land. Hell, I guess everything could land in Star Trek, considering that it is fiction and they'd do almost everything to serve the story.

Voyager in comparison was a small ship to the Enterprise I seem to remember somewhere that Enterprise (TNG) landed (I think?)

Nope, the NCC-1701-D never landed in any of the Trek productions. Unless you think of its crash landing in Generations, of course.

 

[Piper]

On the wider issue of any ship landings, that was one of the few things I disliked about the new movie, the Enterprise being built on Earth. How did it get into the sky exactly? Makes far more sense to build them in space dock.

I always thought VOY landing was pretty cool, but I wouldn't have wanted main ship landings to have been a major part of the other Trek shows - having it in orbit, with shuttles and beam downs was far better I think.

 

[NBG011]

Any spacecraft should have the ability to set down on a surface of a planet, if for no other reason then in case of an emergency. It's basic common sense.