JamesSmith
Lieutenant Commander
What if all Miranda class vessels, like the Reliant, the Brattain and the Saratoga, was designed to land on planetary surfaces?
What if Miranda class was designed to land on planetary surfaces?
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So they are not?!
Please diagram your sentence. Your verb doesn't agree with the subject.
Your sentence:
"What if all Miranda class vessels, like the Reliant, the Brattain and the Saratoga, was designed to land on planetary surfaces?"
Take out all superfluous items, and you have:
what if all vessels...was designed to land...?"
Ask yourself this: "All vessels was" or "All vessels were" ??
A plural subject requires a plural verb conjugation.
Your sentence:
"What if all Miranda class vessels, like the Reliant, the Brattain and the Saratoga, was designed to land on planetary surfaces?"
Take out all superfluous items, and you have:
what if all vessels...was designed to land...?"
Ask yourself this: "All vessels was" or "All vessels were" ??
A plural subject requires a plural verb conjugation.
^^You commited thread necromancy on a thread that hasn't been active for nearly seven months just to bitch about grammar?
Bitching about canon was what the internet was founded on.
Bitching about grammar online is basically tilting at windmills.
Bitching about grammar online is basically tilting at windmills.
I don't think there are any starships from that era that could land on a planet surface.
I never understood the point of landing a starship anyway? Unless you are landing for good or to make extensive repairs I don't see why you would take the whole ship down. Way too exposed!
I never understood the point of landing a starship anyway? Unless you are landing for good or to make extensive repairs I don't see why you would take the whole ship down. Way too exposed!
Are we talking powered or unpowered landing? Approach to a hover, (my choice), or run on landing?
I either case the pilots are going to earn their pay... I see the approach to a hover and touch down being alot like the landing on Forbbiden Planet only much more "interesting", because of the shear spacecraft size.
-Chuck
I agree. That's why starships have shuttlecraft and transporters so they don't have to land the ship on a planetary surface.
IMO, planetfall is a last-ditch option for a Miranda-class because I think both the warp nacelles and the pylons would have to be jettisoned prior to entering the planet's atmosphere (I don't believe they're designed to support the weight of the vessel at all).
To me, more single-hulled ships with horizontal or elevated warp nacelles like the Intrepid- or Nova-classes are better designs for planetfall. And aside from the aforementioned emergency purposes, the only other good reason for a starship to land on a planet is if it's going to be there for awhile like a base of operations for an extended mission.
Well if they had kept the original design of the Miranda-class landing probably wouldn't be much of a problem since the nacelles wouldn't have to touch the ground.
What if Brian Blessed had played Sisko and Ensign Gordon from "Rocks and Shoals" had come back to life?
I'll get me coat...
Given that the Miranda's has artificial gravity, she could land inverted, with her nacelles up in the air. The landing struts could deploy out of the upper surface of the roll bar, inbetween the giga-phasers and the central torpedo thingy. Four legs spread out to balance the ship, with the main weight of the ship resting on the vertical columns connecting the main hull to the giga-phasers.
