Where Were They Going on the Shuttle?

[Starbreaker]

After the bar fight, when Kirk decides he's going to enlist and joins the new recruits... where were they going? The academy is on Earth, and they could have easily used the transporter. Did they have to go to some starbase for processing or something?

 

[Nerys Myk]

The Academy would be my guess. Don't see why they'd have to use transporters.

 

[I-Am-Zim]

Yeah. They were in Iowa. The Academy is in California. Shuttles would be efficient forms of transportation between states.

 

[Starbreaker]

Really? They can beam people from the atmosphere to the planet, and even from planet to planet, yet they took a shuttle... I just find it odd.

 

[Schmorpheus]

Just because they can beam people around nilly-willy, doesnt mean they should.

 

[F. King Daniel]

^Especially since transporters don't seem to be such a sure science in this movie.

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[Hartzilla2007]

Plus it would probably save more time then beaming them in groups and having them stand still long enough to be transported then repeating the process until their all there.

 

[Sector 7]

^Especially since transporters don't seem to be such a sure science in this movie.

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Exactly, if they had started the movie out with people beaming everywhere casually, it would be much less believable when Amanda died or Kirk and Sulu almost died. McCoy's legendary dislike of transporters may have some validity this time around.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I always had the feeling that transporters were more common on starships than they were at the Academy or in the general populace. Hence the shuttlecraft for the recruits & the returning cadets.

 

[Skywalker]

Yeah, I kind of got that feeling, too. Plus I doubt a shuttle ride from Iowa to San Francisco would take all that long, anyway.

 

[Devon]

Yep. We've seen shuttles being used before for land transport, nothing new.

 

[od0_ital]

Plus, they were cadets - let 'em stew in a shuttle for a couple of hours.

Ya notice Pike didn't get on, right? That's 'cause he was able to beam back & forth.

Rank has its privilages!

 

[Gojira]

There is also a car driving buy when Kirk is talking to McCoy about the Kobayashi Maru (sp) so it would seem that more conventional styles of transportation are still being used.

 

[M'Sharak]

Ya notice Pike didn't get on, right? That's 'cause he was able to beam back & forth.

Rank has its privilages!

You must have missed this part:

PIKE: (over comm) This is Captain Pike. We've been cleared for takeoff.

 

[OneBuckFilms]

Beaming requires a fair amount of power, and in a secure environment, aka starship construction, beaming may have been blocked as a security measure.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

^Especially since transporters don't seem to be such a sure science in this movie.

Well the transporters in TOS weren't such sure technology either, prone to break down when they were needed the most.

 

[muzzleflash]

Yeah, one moment you're beaming back to your ship after a routine mission, the next, you're in a parallel universe where Spock has a beard.

 

[Gojira]

Or one moment you're beaming to the ship and you have either split into your good and evil halves or you have merged with the guy next to you to form a completely new individual. No thanks, I'll take the stairs.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

They wanted to go sightseeing over the Grand Canyon on the way.

Just because they have transporters doesn't mean they always want to use them. People have cars but sometimes ride bicycles and horses for whatever dumbass reason they have to be so inefficient. Sometimes they even walk. Insanity!

Yeah, one moment you're beaming back to your ship after a routine mission, the next, you're in a parallel universe where Spock has a beard.

That sounds like a good reason to use the transporter. Roll the dice enough times and eventually you get to meet Evil Goateed Zachary Quinto.

Just my luck, he'd probably be beaming to the Normal Universe at the same time.

 

[Gojira]

There was a line in the movie between Scotty and Prime Spock where Scotty talks about arguing with a professor about not being able to move a grapefruit more than 100 miles. So until Scotty, with the help of Spock Prime, discovers trans-warp beaming maybe people can't be beamed more than 100 miles away hence still the need for things like cars and shuttles.