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What if they had made 'Western Star Trek'?

Would the steampunk Enterprise be a steampunk submarine like the Nautilus in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea? There could be a goofy theory that the continents float on top of the oceans and the Enterprise could sail under the wild west and drill or smash through the thin crust of the continent when it reached its destination, like a whale or the real Nautilus breaking through arctic ice floes.

Or would the steampunk Enterprise be a steampunk burrowing machine that tunneled through dirt and rock and would emerge at its destination making a big crater to annoy the locals?

Or would the steampunk Enterprise be a steampunk landship?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landship

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0604041h.html

Or would the steampunk Enterprise be a steampunk airship? Like a super large and advanced Zeppelin decades earlier? It would probably have to use hydrogen in the gasbags which would call up images of the Hindenburg. But on the other hand the hydrogen filled Zeppelins that bombed Britain in WWI were highly resistant to bullets from AA guns on the ground and from tiny fighter planes. The tiny holes made by bullets caused tiny leaks that weren't worse that the natural leaks anyway. It was only the invention of (extremely) incendiary bullets for airplane machine guns that caused the idea of using Zeppelins as bombers to be shot down in flames, along with some of its leading proponents.

An airship Enterprise that was anachronistically as advanced as the LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin or more so could have completed its five year mission in the weird wild west without being destroyed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ_127_Graf_Zeppelin

Or would the steampunk Enterprise be a steampunk ship-sized heavier than air vehicle? Like the Albatross in Robur the Conqueror.

https://www.google.com/search?q=the...9uzZAhWrmuAKHXg8ATsQ_AUICigB&biw=1920&bih=949
 
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