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The sad part is that I have way too many women in my life...
Now why would Starfleet engineers need to deconstruct a Galaxy Class starship anyway? Crashing the sucker to see how much stress it can handle is more reasonable to me.
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When I mentioned the training facility I was also thinking of Wesley's entrance exam, with the exploding room. That did not seem to be a holodeck/room there, although lack of memory leaves out the finer details of the scene to me.
Applying our uses of sims and airframes to what I remember when I worked with the Air Force they did have a B-52 flight sim with all the moving parts needed and a dead airframe used for fire fighting air crew rescue. While a holodeck would work for the first, the second would, to me, be better handled by an article on the ground, and a ship would crash in pieces.
Maybe he likes fantasizing in sets of three, a Wookie, a Hobbit, and a porn star?
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One problem I have with the 'crash dummy' idea, is that, why would you want to smash a starship into a planet that is of some importance to the federation?
I don't know if there are people living on mars in the 2350/60's, but it does hint towards it it tre, and i don't think they'd go for the idea of someone driving a galaxy class starship into their backyard!
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Right. Like, think of how little the effect it would have on people in the US, if a starship crashed in Antarctica.
Consider too... the Enterprise crashed on Veridian 3, warpcore, antimatter and all in tact, and it apparently did no harm. Except for the tribe of natives they completely wiped out during their trip through the woods.
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If I recall correctly, only the saucer actually crashed, the stardrive section went Bamf in orbit which led to the loss of control in the saucer which resulted in the slide into first.
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OK, so the surface area of mars is about 150 million km^2, but there's bound to be some space hippy called moon-tree galaxy child, or whatever, who'll bitch about it spoiling the beautiful martian dust for decades to come. Or something.
And besides, people winge for the sak of winging. There is no good reason not to test crashing a starship into the side of mars to see how it holds up. Im just saying that the Wong family might want a shitload of cash first (assuming they owned mars for about 700 years).
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Firstly - would a Starship crash so neatly? Saucer, star drive and nacelles all perfectly aligned?
And Secondly, Veridian III wasn't inhabited - it was another planet in the system if I recall correctly. They still would have had to have cleaned up their mess cause if there Veridians eventually achieved space-flight and decided to go to that other verdant planet - and find a crashed starship - or the tell-tale signs of one - AND they hadn't made First Contact - it'd be a serious breach of the Prime Directive.
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Well, getting the Enterprise saucer off of the planet is one of the things that acctually makes sense.
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