Re: Clone Armies in Trek

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Graham Kennedy wrote:

> Mike Dicenso wrote:
>
> >
> > On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, lyon_wonder wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>Also: ground transport.  Aside from the dune-buggy in "Nemesis," and
> >>>mention of "skimmers" during the Dominion War, there's no evidence of Starfleet 
> >>>ground vehicles.
> >>
> >>And why did those ground vehicles that Picard used in "Nemesis"
> >>utilize old-fashioned wheels and suspension that don't look too far
> >>removed from vehicles in the 20/21st century?  Obviously, in the late
> >>24th century, this is long after hover vehicles and flaying cars were
> >>invented.
> >
> >
> > Because a wheel and suspension vehicle is not prone to any weird
> > technobabble particle of the week, or whatever that will cut power to the
> > hovercraft/flying cars' antigravity propulsion and cause it to fall, and
> > be destroyed.
>
> Nor does it put out radiation/particles which can be detected
> by every enemy scanner within a thousand kilometres.


Well, that I don't know about.... The vehicle could operate on a fuel cell
technology, but even that puts out some kind of energy emission, though at
a much lower level than maybe a fusion or some other kind of power source
would.
-Mike