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By: Snafu

Snafu — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:20:47 +0000

I know this is a very late entry. Just to point out that I am watching Abrams’ Fringe series (which is preposterous but real fun, sort of his take on X-Files), and it seems to me this one was his test ground for the use of flares, as far as I see.

By: dougdrexler

dougdrexler — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:24:02 +0000

Gary Kerr hit me with this one last night. Consider:

Another thing I don’t think anyone has mentioned: you’ve got this monstrous ship, with a cavernous hangar bay, that’s exploring space umpteen zillion light years from home – yet the hangar bay, with its slanty beams, accommodates only this year’s model of long, skinny shuttlecraft. What if a wider Starfleet ship or alien vessel needs to land in the hangar bay? What if the ship’s automated landing system isn’t operational, either from accident or from battle damage. Do you play “thread the needle” when landing? Flexibility of use should be a major design objective for the hangar bay on a ship that’s usually operating far from home base.

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Take a pill. It ain’t Hamlet. « Moeskido — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:02:07 +0000

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By: Dwight Williams

Dwight Williams — Sun, 31 May 2009 15:08:50 +0000

Multiple-redundancy built into the shuttle’s computer hardware and software, almost a certainty.

By: Baxart

Baxart — Sun, 31 May 2009 10:53:09 +0000

I’ve got an ex-marine buddy who drove M1A Abrams’ off of carriers and back to shore, after gulf war 1 and said that he had an average of 6″ clearance on either side of the tank.
Besides, a US Marine helio pilot could land a blackhawk at a picnic with out knocking over a dixie cup, so a Fed shuttle pilot should be able to avoid girders with with counter-grav & computer controlled flight covering his arse.

By: Alex Rosenzweig

Alex Rosenzweig — Sun, 31 May 2009 09:12:26 +0000

IIRC, there weren’t any live-action shots of the bay itself. We saw the characters in corridors on the lower levels, heading toward the bay, and then we cut to the shuttle interior as they were preparing to take off.

‘Course, the interiors of the whole secondary hull are so haphazard that it was rather hard to get a handle on what was going on, and where the characters were.

Best,
Alex

By: Dwight Williams

Dwight Williams — Sat, 30 May 2009 12:03:07 +0000

Trying to recall, and coming up empty so far. Seems like a “variable operational-geometry” situation here judging by the pix posted thus far. More as I’m able to revisit the movie theatre for another viewing.

By: Rich G

Rich G — Sat, 30 May 2009 10:54:06 +0000

I’m wondering if the whole reason the girders are there in the VFX is to match practical ones in the live-action shuttlebay sequences. Is this a ‘casualty’ of using a real-life location for the shuttlebay? Did we even see the shuttlebay in the film in that manner? I can’t remember.

By: DeanneM

DeanneM — Sat, 30 May 2009 05:35:09 +0000

First! (second time around )

Get some rest, Doug. Then regale us with the tree mystery tomorrow. Good night!

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