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Originally Posted by ratbastid
The only time the Enterprise was on a planet that I can think of was the saucer section crash landing in Generations. Voyager is a much different class of ship--my assumption is that Enterprise was never built for landing.
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I dunno. If I were building a space-ship, I'd design it to land in an emergency, but that's just me. And the ship is friggin huge, which would make landing it very difficult even with super propulsion.
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Originally Posted by ratbastid
Spoiler: Not if you ask a physicist. I mean, yeah, you can do the Trek sciency handwaving thing, but... I get tetchy about any scifi that has anybody "fly through" a black hole. You're stretched infinitely thin along the axis that runs toward and away from the singularity quite a while before you actually hit the event horizon, for one thing. And I don't mean space-time bends with you in it: you're PHYSICALLY squeezed and stretched. Unsurvivably so.
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If I'm remembering the comic correctly, the real noddle-scratcher is the exponential supernova that destroys Romulus. The Hobus star went nova, but when it came into contact with other matter, such as asteroids, planets and other stars, it somehow converted their matter to energy. Which is insane. That's not how science works at all. Basically, all I'm saying is that until we understand what the heck was going on with the Hobus star, we can't speculate to the physical forces involved in the Narada and the Jellyfish time traveling.
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Originally Posted by ratbastid
Spoiler: Well, sure, something like that. I'm just wishing the movie had given us that, rather than us having to make something up. It's the only character-based loose end they left loose.
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Agreed.
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Originally Posted by ratbastid
I didn't realize until the ending credits that Damon Lindelof produced on this show. JJ brought a bunch of LOSTies over, didn't he? I recognized the score as Michael Giacchino, who Abrams uses on everything. I wish there had been a little more nodding to the original soundtrack and sfx. The few times they did that were great.
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I almost hate to say this, but the soundtrack was really poor. I adored Giacchino's score to Alias, and his scoring for The Incredibles demonstrated that he was ready for full movie scoring, but Star Trek was really, really bad. It was distracting. I know that not one person alive today could really reproduce the level of quality that Goldsmith brought to the franchise, but Dennis McCarthy would have been just fine. I know JJ Abrams likes to carry around his posse with him, but he shouldn't assign his people rolls they're not able to fill.