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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] If someone has some screencaps, we might be able to get a pretty close size comparison, to match the shuttle to the cruiser. (Yes, we've seen the ships alongside the NX-01 before, but the perspective was always off.) So, even after the stopover at Earth, they still only have the two shuttlepods on board. Morons. Though they never offered any explanation for the asteroid field, this particular SFX-of-the-week can't have been a natural phenomenon -- continuing the impossible cliche of incredibly dense asteroid fields going all the way back to "The Empire Strikes Back." Either the Expanse's anomalies caused the asteroids to stick together so long, or else it's the debris field of another destroyed planet. Considering the incredible velocities that some of those asteroids were zipping around at, I'd almost say that the field would have to be maintained continuously. (Think of all the ejecta from the collisions, for instance.) Based on the appearance of that gigantic hole through the inside of the [i]Selaya[/i] that we saw towards the end of the episode (presumably caused by an asteroid punching all the way through the ship), it seems that the Vulcans have forcefield technology that can already be used to seal hull breaches and prevent excessive loss of atmosphere. (I find it hard to believe that they could've sealed just one part of the hull and then pump air back into the internal sections -- I doubt the Vulcans would've had enough presence of mind for that.) Of course this doesn't necessarily contradict any canon considering ENT's track record... and the forcefield could easily just be another technology the Vulcans won't share. I wonder, though, if the creation of such a narrow yet long hole would even be physically [b]possible[/b], especially in a spaceship. Considering the hardened materials that are used in construction of hull plates, not to mention the structural beams and other stuff inside... how could an asteroid punch all the way through the ship, create a hole about three meters in diameter, and yet leave so little damage aside from the actual hole? The asteroid would have to be moving at a considerable fraction of the speed of light, I'd bet, but that would probably be impossible based on the physical limitations and the density of the asteroid field. All that junk is floating around, but not THAT fast, I think! The only thing in the Trek world that I think could do that type of damage would be an energy beam weapon... which would raise some interesting questions, had that hole in the ship been placed there for anything other than a drama-heightening device to prolong our heroes' peril. Was anyone else thinking that this episode could be considered as a pilot for "Elite Force III: Better Get MACO"? This whole episode had a pitiful computer-game feel to its plot -- the zombies roaming around, lots of shooting, moving from room to room to get tasks done, a ticking clock with a crewman in peril... I was not too impressed, myself. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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