I would think that transporter mining technology would be a thing.
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If our explanation is all sorts of weapons are mounted on the ship, are we not just saying it's a warship that can do some commercial work?
STAR TREK '09 has A LOT of things that just were stupid or didn't work (and I have a LOT of issues with that movie), but the Nerada destroying the Kelvin easily is NOT one of them.
It came over 150 years from the future and another universe... of course it was going to beat that ship down easily. It's surprising the Kelvin lasted as long as she did.
We know very little about Romulan commercial practices.
Probably one of many tools in the toolbox.
I would not say that.
You certainly could, and given the Romulan Star Empire, the recent Dominion War, and attempted coup, the Narada might have pulled double duty in the service to Romulus.
Here's the thing: I'm saying the better explanation if Narada were simply a warship.
It doesn't need to come from the far future.
It doesn't need to be equipped with munitions and equipment that can pull double duty in combat.
It doesn't need to have exotic technology from the Borg.
It's just a warship. Occam's Razor.
Certainly, any manner of extra explanation could be applied, but saying it is a warship is more direct, simpler, more understandable ... better.
It doesn't need to come from the far future.
It doesn't need to be equipped with munitions and equipment that can pull double duty in combat.
It doesn't need to have exotic technology from the Borg.
It's just a warship. Occam's Razor.
Certainly, any manner of extra explanation could be applied, but saying it is a warship is more direct, simpler, more understandable ... better.
I agree, except I think "Strange New Worlds," the second best pilot, puts your "by far" qualification to the test. It's not neck-and-neck with WNMHGB, but the SNW pilot stands well above all the remaining pilots.
Just FWIW, I'd probably have to place "The Cage" at #3.
Preaching the controversy, "Beyond the Farthest Star" is clocking in at #4 on my list (go, Samuel Peeples!).
Rounding out my top five today is "Emissary".
I got around to watching this a second time and I was largely bored by it.
Occam’s Razor would be that it is a Romulan mining vessel from the future. It is right in the dialogue.
i bet some supertankers and big cargoships could roll over them, both due to mass and better metallurgy and construction tecniques. probably mess them up a bunch but
Kovich/Daniels in Season 3 of DSC confirms this when he's explaining the time soldier Yor and says that he comes from a reality created by the temporal incursion of a Romulan mining ship.
Mileage will vary. I prefer the text of the film.
Agreed.
Mass translates into momentum which translates into low manueverability. Physics!
I'm not arguing against dialogue or canon, but story choices.
I like the idea that it was just a Romulan mining ship from the future. It makes it feel “different” from human expectations. That an alien culture does things differently than we do. I don’t need it to play to human expectations.
Trek and Trek fandom too often fall into a rut that aliens need to be equivalent to our human expectations.
Also ignore context that could shed light on to the why in the story.
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