Star Trek Into Darkness Synopsis and Poster Revealed

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We know the SIF can handle acceleration from the engines. But every time we have seen a collision, the SIF cannot handle it. Even Voyager's gentle tounchdowns were not without bumps.
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stitch626 wrote:We know the SIF can handle acceleration from the engines. But every time we have seen a collision, the SIF cannot handle it. Even Voyager's gentle tounchdowns were not without bumps.
Well is that the fault of the SIF or the inertial dampeners?
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Sonic Glitch wrote:
stitch626 wrote:We know the SIF can handle acceleration from the engines. But every time we have seen a collision, the SIF cannot handle it. Even Voyager's gentle tounchdowns were not without bumps.
Well is that the fault of the SIF or the inertial dampeners?
A bit of both.
Ship damage is the SIF, people inside damage is ID.

Fragile Galaxy warp core aside, ships don't handle collisions well (yet huge accelerations via propulsion are fine).
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Exactly. Inertial Damper = not turning into strawberry jam when you accelerate, Structural Integrity = not snapping the ship in half when you accelerate.

Both work superbly well when dealing with strains from the ship's engines, and not so well when dealing with factors imposed from the outside. But surely there's wiggle room there for what we see in the trailer.

After all, the E-D saucer section took a planetary landfall including dragging over several km of ground, collisions with major rock formations and ramming into umpty-thousand trees, and there was virtually no major visible structural damage to the leading edge. There was plenty of internal damage, and presumably some to the underside, to justify the "unable to be salvaged" comment, but the basic structure of the hull appeared intact. Dragging around a ship around in the water a bit would be child's play compared to that, surely?
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The E-D slid along the ground. The E in the trailer is crashing through the water at about a 30-45 degree angle, making an enormous wave in the process. That is a significant (about 1000%) increase in collision area and force.
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The E-D slid along the ground, but it also slammed into - and through - at least one major rock formation at several hundred miles per hour, and countless rather sizeable trees. The Enterprise in the trailer is burying the nose of the saucer in the water as it skims along at what looks like fairly low speed. I wouldn't be at all confident that anybody could make a reasonable comparison of the forces, or that the latter is any greater than the former.
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That's fair. I guess I should wait until actually seeing the sequence, rather than a few seconds clip.


However, I'm still peeved at the last few seconds of the Japanese trailer.
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Well, I made a conscious decision with the last film. There was a LOT of talk about how it would probably suck because of this or that, and I decided I was going to give it the benefit of the doubt, and just go see what came of it. And it turned out pretty well! I figure he's earned himself a fair bit of credit and trust, so I'm going to go in with an open mind and see what he's come up with.
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Gotta get to the 1701-A somehow...

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Just watched a trailer on Youtube and at one point, we did see the E-Alt come out of the water...
I must say, it was visually impressive... :)

And with the interactions Kirk had with the bad guy, I too now believe it is Gary Mitchell, or Abrams's version of Mitchell at least...
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Kirk... water... reboot... Humpback whales?!?!?!? We need Blackstar!
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Praeothmin wrote:Just watched a trailer on Youtube and at one point, we did see the E-Alt come out of the water...
I must say, it was visually impressive... :)

And with the interactions Kirk had with the bad guy, I too now believe it is Gary Mitchell, or Abrams's version of Mitchell at least...
I didn'tthink that it was the E coming up out of the water. You can clearly see the nacells but it doesn't appear to be a "saucer section" more like a tube (facing away)...
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Jim wrote:I didn't think that it was the E coming up out of the water. You can clearly see the nacells but it doesn't appear to be a "saucer section" more like a tube (facing away)...
That was my initial reaction as well, but if you look very closely at a screencap of that scene, you can read NCC 17..., so it might be her.
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I didn't even need a screencap of that. It's pretty obvious.
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Praeothmin wrote: And with the interactions Kirk had with the bad guy, I too now believe it is Gary Mitchell, or Abrams's version of Mitchell at least...

Well it's possible I suppose. It certainly sounded like the villain had a personal beef with Kirk which is why Khan wouldn't work for me in the reboot. They haven't even meet, how personal can it be?

Mitchel on the other hand would be easier to introduce as someone who has a grudge against earth, starfleet, Kirk.....altough we still need to see it, we didn't get to see exactly much of Kirks acadamy years except banging an orion and cheating on a test so....

(That is imho the main problem of introducing a villain who seems to have a personal agenda as well as an overall against one of the films heroes. It's very hard to make it believable that they have a personal vendetta when we virtually don't know anything about them and their prior interactions with the crew, something we were provided in the show. Actually if they use Mitchell, they could just as well could come up with a completely new one since a) how many people remember Mitchell and that he was a bad guy and b) what are the chances with a completely altered timeline that he still is a bad guy, heck he and Kirk probably never even met.

Hard to make "taking vengence" serious and believable when we are missing much of the back-story, so imho this is problematic in a sci-fi action adventure movie which probably won't be willing to spend much time telling this story (heck if it weren't for the comics we still would know virutally nothing about Neros motivations).
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