Re: Way more of my opinion than you probably ever wanted... :Dnear_familyNovember 11 2009, 06:54:47 UTC
Response to a crash would depend on population settlement and whether there are emergency stations set up in sparsely populated areas of the world. Not really sure if they'd use transporters to beam relief personnel in or not. I'm kinda leaning toward “no” on that one. After all, if transporters are used for emergency relief why wouldn't they be used for Star-fleet personnel? Why weren't the cadets beamed to San Francisco or up to the Enterprise? I don't think transporters are widely used planet-side. Considering all the wacky shit the transporters got up to in TOS and others I'm thinking they're a lot more complicated than we tend to think. I tend to think that transporter technology is used mostly by Star Fleet, Federation buildings/organizations, and maybe a few larger private organizations. It might also be Star Fleet privilege, meaning only they use it.
Like I mentioned above (and like others have mentioned) all shuttle traffic would likely be monitored. That doesn't mean that those monitoring it would always have a signal from the shuttle though. Think about how often the Enterprise has lost the signals of ground crews etc in TOS etc for one reason or another. And they're the Federation Flag Ship! If they have problems with it, I'm sure Planetary monitors have problems to. Maybe not as exotic but I imagine they could loose a signal all the same. If this happened they'd probably search an area of projected impact based on the shuttle's last location, speed and trajectory. I think finding and assisting crashed shuttles would be easier and more efficient than finding and assisting crashed planes today, but it wouldn't be perfect.
Re: Way more of my opinion than you probably ever wanted... :DpixelmayhemNovember 11 2009, 07:28:36 UTC
You're level of detail was great! Just what I was hoping for! Especially regarding the troposphere, stratosphere, ect. You reinforced some of the ideas I had, so yay! Phobias are irrational fear, no matter how awesome the Enterprise at Space Dock looks, there's no way it would have overridden that fear. I agree. I do know that the severity of phobias vary. McCoy showed some problems in regards to being likely to vomit but his panic, as we saw it visually, was fairly mild. Which made me wonder about his tolerance threshold for that moment and the window scene. I know I can be distracted from my phobia of heights by certain stimuli and as I've worked on my phobia the distractions work better and better, so it was a it of speculation on my part regarding the distraction. Though I did word it poorly.
I LOVE your information/speculation on crashes and transporters. Again you are reinforcing some of my ponderings.
Like I mentioned above (and like others have mentioned) all shuttle traffic would likely be monitored. That doesn't mean that those monitoring it would always have a signal from the shuttle though. Think about how often the Enterprise has lost the signals of ground crews etc in TOS etc for one reason or another. And they're the Federation Flag Ship! If they have problems with it, I'm sure Planetary monitors have problems to. Maybe not as exotic but I imagine they could loose a signal all the same. If this happened they'd probably search an area of projected impact based on the shuttle's last location, speed and trajectory. I think finding and assisting crashed shuttles would be easier and more efficient than finding and assisting crashed planes today, but it wouldn't be perfect.
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Phobias are irrational fear, no matter how awesome the Enterprise at Space Dock looks, there's no way it would have overridden that fear. I agree. I do know that the severity of phobias vary. McCoy showed some problems in regards to being likely to vomit but his panic, as we saw it visually, was fairly mild. Which made me wonder about his tolerance threshold for that moment and the window scene. I know I can be distracted from my phobia of heights by certain stimuli and as I've worked on my phobia the distractions work better and better, so it was a it of speculation on my part regarding the distraction. Though I did word it poorly.
I LOVE your information/speculation on crashes and transporters. Again you are reinforcing some of my ponderings.
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