The Ring-Ship Enterprise

[Nate the Great]

Ever heard of a mystical device called a turbolift? They do go horizontally as well, you know. Come on, the E-D was over a kilometer long, as I recall.

So what's wrong with a grunt ship? Don't grunts have interesting lives, too? Isn't that the point of "Lower Decks" and "Good Shepard?"

No rationalization? Are you going to explain away UESPA as well?

You're just going to handwave away:

Spock not being the first human/Vulcan hybrid?
Warp nacelles getting more primitive from the NX-01 to the NCC-1701
Deflector dishes getting more primitive from the NX-01 to the NCC-1701
Uniforms getting more primitive from the NX-01 to the NCC-1701
Communicators getting more primitive from the NX-01 to the NCC-1701
And on and on and on...

[Scooter]

Originally Posted by Infinite Improbability

Ever heard of a mystical device called a turbolift?

Hmm, isn't your point that the Daedalus comes from a more primitive time? I was assuming no turbolifts. My guess would be something more along the lines of an airport moving walkway. I'm picturing it easing slowly along with Trip standing to the right while Archer stomps past, and Trip calling merrily after him, "In a hurry, Cap'n?"

[Derek]

Originally Posted by Infinite Improbability

You're just going to handwave away:

Warp nacelles getting more primitive from the NX-01 to the NCC-1701
Deflector dishes getting more primitive from the NX-01 to the NCC-1701
Uniforms getting more primitive from the NX-01 to the NCC-1701
Communicators getting more primitive from the NX-01 to the NCC-1701
And on and on and on...

I sure am. The producers were upfront about how the technology would be somewhere in between the technology we saw in TOS and the direction our current technology is taking us.

[mudshark]

Originally Posted by Infinite Improbability

No rationalization? Are you going to explain away UESPA as well?

No. Why bother?

You're just going to handwave away:

Spock not being the first human/Vulcan hybrid?
Warp nacelles getting more primitive from the NX-01 to the NCC-1701
Deflector dishes getting more primitive from the NX-01 to the NCC-1701
Uniforms getting more primitive from the NX-01 to the NCC-1701
Communicators getting more primitive from the NX-01 to the NCC-1701
And on and on and on...

Sure. Why not?

[Zeke]

Rationalizing is what Trekkies do. We've been doing it since the earliest days of TOS. Trying to stop us now is just counterproductive.

[Sa'ar Chasm]

What I think happen is that the poor schmoe who had to decorate the Rec Room hated Enterprise, so he substituted some random picture of a bit of space junk. Decker didn't actually recognise what it was, but he didn't want to look like an idiot in front of the hot bald probe-droid.

[mudshark]

Originally Posted by Zeke

Rationalizing is what Trekkies do. We've been doing it since the earliest days of TOS. Trying to stop us now is just counterproductive.

Of course it is. Of course we have. I have no intention of trying to stop anyone; I just don't want to get into an endless and unproductive argument with someone about it.

Originally Posted by Sa'ar Chasm

... but he didn't want to look like an idiot in front of the hot bald probe-droid.

Of course not. Who does?

[Zeke]

Relax, shark, I was talking to Nate.

[PointyHairedJedi]

OR WAS HE?

(We don't do that enough nowadays.)

[Gatac]

OR DO WE?

Gatac