re: #23 wheat-dogg

IIRC, in the reboot movies, when they show Iowa, isn’t there a large ravine, a scar from something?

In the ill-fated last series, Enterprise, the Earth is attacked and Florida is devastated by a giant rip of the upper crust. I wondered if in the reboot movie if the giant ravine in Iowa was supposed to be a call-back to that story. Never bothered to search the trekkie sites to see if someone had worked this out.

In the ST universe there is an alternate physics, in regards to gravity, there from the very beginning. The real universe doesn’t work the way Roddenberry envisioned it, so the very basis of ST is that of fantasy.

Given that, then if indeed one does have a sort of anti-gravity device, one could construct a spaceship on the planet’s surface.

Now this does conflict with the first few movies of the original storyline… where the Enterprise replacement is being built in space.

But that’s the thing with re-boots: the new producers/directors do what they want. The whole point of a reboot is to make more money off of nostalgia.