Cpl Kendall wrote:I'd be more impressed with the Argo if they had an off-hand comment about new frictionless wheel bearings or that you didn't need to grease it then if they had shoved a generic Sci-Fi hover truck in there. I like the Argo well enough but something like that might have driven home that it was a future "space truck" or something. I dunno if that made sense or not.
Why? Just add a few screen displays (a sensor to find the pieces of the robot) showing the status of the vehicle, make it shiny, and slap a Federation logo on it. Tone down the overexposure so people can see the screen easily, and have Data use it to plot a route to each piece. Add a text line about Enterprise data relay, so they can see the other vehicles closing. Add lots of vehicles on the map, so they have an incentive to leave.
Or just pay a few extra bucks to the special effects crew, add an off-hand comment about magnetic diverters, and that would explain the poor accuracy of the guys following them. Have tracers being diverted to the sides slightly, but also remark that the diverter can't handle too much mass. As the chase goes on, the tracers get closer and closer, and have a ricochet bounce off near Worf. They then get away.