Questions from a late night Star Trek Beyond viewing

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Questions from a late night Star Trek Beyond viewing

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Star Base Yorktown: What is the outer shell made of? If breached by say space junk, would explosive decompression follow? Is there a force field supporting the structure? Did anyone else notice similarities with 'Elysium', 'Inception', and even 'Dr. Strange', with the topsy-turvy mobius feel to it?

Krall: Did he and his crew change more physically or mentally over time? Would a bit more backstory on the USS Franklin been helping in telling their story? Was there a favorite stage of his appearance? (for me, it was the full blown dragon-man)

Jaylah (or however it is spelled :bangwall: ): Since being offered to join Star Fleet Academy, would her character be interesting enough to join a later film? Based simply on appearance and speech patterning, I'd think so.

Teenaxians: A couple of them were beamed aboard with Kirk. Why were they not returned to their planet? Are they hostages? One at the end, was in a classic 'red shirt', was he a member of the crew, even minus the pants?

I'm sure there were more questions, but now my brain is not longer sleep deprived, I can't remember them :laughroll:
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I like to think there is a whole B story we never got to see where the Teenaxian learned to love the Enterprise crew just like Jaylah did, and enlisted in security.

Fun fact : Jaylah's name derives from Jennifer Lawrence. When writing the character, Simon Pegg and Doug Jung had in mind Lawrence's character Ree Dolly in Winter's Bone. Since they hadn't thought of a character name yet, they took to calling her "Jennifer Lawrence from Winter's Bone". When that got too long they called her "J-Law", and then wrote that as Jaylah.

As for the station, I have to believe that there's either a mondo structural integrity field strengthening that shell material, or there's forcefield backups. Or the whole shell is a forcefield. It's telling that the drones never even tried to penetrate the shell, they all went through the airlock. The only reason I can think of is that the shell could not be penetrated, even by that attack.
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Graham Kennedy wrote:As for the station, I have to believe that there's either a mondo structural integrity field strengthening that shell material, or there's forcefield backups. Or the whole shell is a forcefield. It's telling that the drones never even tried to penetrate the shell, they all went through the airlock. The only reason I can think of is that the shell could not be penetrated, even by that attack.
They are not able to penetrate the shell but they have no problems with the shields? kinda weird :)
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bladela wrote:
Graham Kennedy wrote:As for the station, I have to believe that there's either a mondo structural integrity field strengthening that shell material, or there's forcefield backups. Or the whole shell is a forcefield. It's telling that the drones never even tried to penetrate the shell, they all went through the airlock. The only reason I can think of is that the shell could not be penetrated, even by that attack.
They are not able to penetrate the shell but they have no problems with the shields? kinda weird :)
Abramsverse shields don't seem to do anything, for some reason.
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Graham Kennedy wrote: Abramsverse shields don't seem to do anything, for some reason.
yeah, something that, although not consistently, has already begun with ds9 for me, here it has been exaggerated.
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I think effects people or producers/directors have decided it looks cool to see ships shooting and causing explosions on one another's hull. So they keep shield dialogue in because it's tradition, but don't bother with the actual shields.
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Graham Kennedy wrote:I think effects people or producers/directors have decided it looks cool to see ships shooting and causing explosions on one another's hull. So they keep shield dialogue in because it's tradition, but don't bother with the actual shields.
I also think so ... and I find it crazy

what's cooler than this?

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I could buy some explanation about 'well weapons have become so powerful that the shields can't stop it all, so a phaser blast is attenuated by like 95% and the remaining 5% gets through.'

But in Trek 09, when the Enterprise comes out in the debris field at Vulcan we see a piece of wreckage come gently in and strike the hull, ripping off a bunch of hull panels. If that can get through a shield, why bother with shields? For that matter, how come it can rip chunks off the hull even without shields?

45 seconds into this clip

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Graham Kennedy wrote:I could buy some explanation about 'well weapons have become so powerful that the shields can't stop it all, so a phaser blast is attenuated by like 95% and the remaining 5% gets through.'
this is acceptable ... even to give a minimum of drama to the scene ... to understand ... as seen in Ds9 and Voy I can accept it, which in the end is what you say.
But in Trek 09, when the Enterprise comes out in the debris field at Vulcan we see a piece of wreckage come gently in and strike the hull, ripping off a bunch of hull panels. If that can get through a shield, why bother with shields? For that matter, how come it can rip chunks off the hull even without shields?
This scene was made perfectly in nemesis ... impact against the hull, damaged shields ... glitches and damage to the systems ... but the hull remains virtually intact.

Put so much it would be worth throwing it like a modern naval battle ... it would become a matter of compartmentation since no ship is now armored (it is difficult to have sufficient armor against a nuclear warhead ...)
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You know, that picture from First Contact vs the video from Abrams Trek, lens flares suck. Really, really suck. First Contact: clean, clear, crisp, concise. Abrams: messy, shaky, energetic, blinding.
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Nutso wrote:You know, that picture from First Contact vs the video from Abrams Trek, lens flares suck. Really, really suck. First Contact: clean, clear, crisp, concise. Abrams: messy, shaky, energetic, blinding.
...even JJ admitted he was a bit exaggerated ...
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And the reason he did it was to emphasise how bright the Trek future is!
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Graham Kennedy wrote:And the reason he did it was to emphasise how bright the Trek future is!


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