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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.
I'm mostly thinking of an antigravity unit putting out graviton particles which a tricorder could detect from who knows how far. sulu took core readings of the Genesis planet with a tricorder so they certainly have a range in the thousands of miles for some things. It's certainly within the bounds of possibility that an antigrav unit puts out gravitons (or technobabblons or whatever) that a tricorder could spot from a long way, much further than you could expect to spot a wheeled vehicle powered by fusion or saurium krellide cells.
-- Graham Kennedy
Creator and Author, Daystrom Institute Technical Library http://www.ditl.org
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