What if the Original Enterprise's saucer was pulverized?

[E-DUB]

There was reference made in the series to "auxiliary control". Kind of a precursor to TNG's "battle bridge".

 

[blssdwlf]

Would a typical meteorite storm be that dangerous to Kirk's Enterprise? I can see large asteroids being a hazard but I'm not so sure about meteorites the size of grains of sand or pebbles doing anything to the ship.

 

[XCV330]

I'm pretty sure The Making of Star Trek says the two hulls can operate independently of each other in an emergency. The survivors in the secondary hull would have to detach from the wreckage and fly to the nearest Starbase.

But this would never happen because the Enterprise has long-range sensors and would maneuver out of anything's way.

Forgive them Connely. They forget all too soon.
Probably just a metaphor..

 

[Maurice]

I just never seem to get the point of most these kind of “what if” hypothetical exercises. On the face of it most of them have extremely mundane answers like “Most of the crew would be dead and the ship would either be rebuilt or scrapped.”

“What if”‘ threads seem to be mostly started by noobs, which is interesting.

 

[CaptainJordan]

What would the Star Trek movies be like if that happened?

 

[GNDN18]

 

[The Old Mixer]

I just never seem to get the point of most these kind of “what if” hypothetical exercises. On the face of it most of them have extremely mundane answers like “Most of the crew would be dead and the ship would either be rebuilt or scrapped.”

“What if”‘ threads seem to be mostly started by noobs, which is interesting.

I think of them as "Please write my fanfic for me" threads.

 

[Maurice]

I just never seem to get the point of most these kind of “what if” hypothetical exercises. On the face of it most of them have extremely mundane answers like “Most of the crew would be dead and the ship would either be rebuilt or scrapped.”

“What if”‘ threads seem to be mostly started by noobs, which is interesting.

What would the Star Trek movies be like if that happened?

Case in point.

 

[The Old Mixer]

And such oddly specific scenarios. "What if the crew of the Enterprise beamed down to an all-night laundromat, but the change machine wasn't working?"

 

[Unicron]

We should make that an episode. Perhaps on Lower Decks.

 

[The Old Mixer]

What if Spock and Boimler were fused together in a transporter accident? No, that's actually good...

 

[GNDN18]

 

[Nerys Myk]

What if Spock and Boimler were fused together in a transporter accident? No, that's actually good...

Spocler!

 

[The Old Mixer]

Boimlock!

 

[CorporalCaptain]

What if the latent spin cycle of the TOS Enterprise saucer had been accidentally activated while the inertial dampeners were down for maintenance, and everyone who couldn't get below to the engineering hull in time had been turned into goo by the centrifugal forces?

 

[F. King Daniel]

They'd fly it to the shop and Scotty would spend months working the kinks out of the saucer hull.

In a little space suit. With a hammer.

 

[GNDN18]

What if the latent spin cycle of the TOS Enterprise saucer had been accidentally activated while the inertial dampeners were down for maintenance, and everyone who couldn't get below to the engineering hull in time had been turned into goo by the centrifugal forces?

They'd fly it to the shop and Scotty would spend months working the kinks out of the saucer hull.

In a little space suit. With a hammer.

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[Ssosmcin]

Except, of course, in cases like "Doomsday Machine", where the first sign of a meteor storm is the sound of 'em rocks pounding against the hull...
Timo Saloniemi

Except that didn't happen...

The Enterprise was never struck by meteors in the episode. Nor was there a meteor storm. There was a destroyed solar system but none of the planetary fragments hit the ship (Sulu would have been the worst pilot ever if they did).

The only time a meteor(oid) potentially hit the ship was in The Cage, and we only heard one quick sound effect that could be interpreted as an impact.

 

[Qonundrum]

What if the Original Enterprise's primary hull was pulverized by a meteor storm during the end of her historic five-year mission?

It'd make doing that refit a mighty bit easier since half the dismantling was already done by big space rocks!

 

[GNDN18]