quote:Originally posted by Masao: I think Sternbach's idea is pretty cool. Imagine a ship with the bridge in a small lifting body shaped or saucer module, which could detach from the drive section and land on a planet. The original landing function might have been lost as the saucers got larger.
That was the original intention for the Enterprise was it not? Indeed the potential cost involved in filming a saucer detachment and landing prompted them to invent transporters IIRC.
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Interesting idea... but would that be practical, from a real-life standpoint? Assuming they had the basic dimensions from the beginning, landing a hundred-meter-diameter saucer seems kind of excessive, if little "boats" (shuttlecraft) could be used instead.
(Of course, using shuttlecraft also required a studio investment, but... )
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quote:Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: Have we not seen Star Trek: Generations, gentlemen?
Well, duh! I was ignoring the obvious because any well-informed individual who's likely to visit this forum would already know about that specific instance. And besides, that particular incident is 150 years or more past the point we're discussing...
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Yes, well, Matt Jefferies most certainly *did* design the saucer of the E-nil to be able to separate and land on a planet. Those triangular markings on the underside are retracted landing struts. This procedure was also referenced in "The Apple" (TOS), IIRC. And, as a further side note, the climax of TMP was originally to involve a saucer separation. Storyboards of this can be seen in The Art of Star Trek.
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I was ignoring the obvious because any well-informed individual who's likely to visit this forum would already know about that specific instance. And besides, that particular incident is 150 years or more past the point we're discussing...![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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