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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam5/27/2017 10:58:10 pm PDT

re: #25 freetoken

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 bery 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.

Presumably, the ST universe scientists have learned how to control gravity, since the ships all have “artificial gravity”, so anti-gravity would be a thing. Still, constructing a deep-space exploratory ship armed to the teeth with weapons and powered by a matter-antimatter core on the Earth’s surface seems very unwise. I guess in the future industrial accidents have been eliminated.

That ravine does seems peculiar. I also have not delved into the fansites to learn why Iowa has a big canyon. Either the film makers know nothing about Iowa, or it’s some subtle reference to a cataclysm of the past.