| Coelacanth | 08 Apr 2016 3:07 p.m. PST |
If the Voyager was designed to land, why didn't she have a hull separation capability? It's common for Star Trek ships, and would allow you to have a more (notionally) aerodynamic lander while leaving the explody antimatter in orbit (hopefully a rather distant one) where it belongs. Maybe it is the least of problems for what was a problematic show to start with, but the question is still there. Ron |
| Bashytubits | 08 Apr 2016 4:30 p.m. PST |
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| McWong73 | 08 Apr 2016 4:35 p.m. PST |
Because it was a pointless plot device, and by not having it they saved money on fx shots is the most likely reason. There's nothing in canon though to say it can't. They just never went there in the show. |
| TNE2300 | 08 Apr 2016 6:53 p.m. PST |
Voyager landed in the episode 'The 37's' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_37's "The episode shows the first time that a Federation starship lands on a planet's surface." |
| Spudeus | 08 Apr 2016 7:04 p.m. PST |
The saucer separations that we see in STNG seem to be pretty involved and a last resort. Certainly not standard procedure. I gathered Voyager was a long range scout, able to quickly land anywhere; presumably there is some kind of advantage to this – the ability to have all the science teams on hand, to rapidly gather any raw materials needed, to go to warp post-mission without a laborious docking procedure, etc. |
| Dynaman8789 | 08 Apr 2016 7:20 p.m. PST |
Hull separation was so TNG… They needed a new gimmick. |
| TNE2300 | 08 Apr 2016 7:30 p.m. PST |
Hull separation was so TNG… They needed a new gimmick. Saucer Separation was referenced in the TOS episode 'The Apple' link |
| Zephyr1 | 08 Apr 2016 7:59 p.m. PST |
It's a tiny ship to start with, so separating into two parts would leave you in more trouble than you were in before… |
| Ghostrunner | 08 Apr 2016 8:16 p.m. PST |
Ships like the NCC-1701 didn't appear to have a way to drop just the warp core, and they seemed to lack (many) lifeboats. So the saucer was a large lifeboat, despite the obvious question of what you do if the saucer is the part that just got smacked. The 1701-D separated so you would have a nice place to stash the civvies while the ship went into combat. Iffy logic, but it was the clear purpose. Voyager had pods, and could drop just the core if needed. Landing on a planet seems iffy during a casualty. As evidenced in 'Timeless'. It didn't end well. |
| Brian Smaller | 09 Apr 2016 3:40 a.m. PST |
Voyager returned to San Francisco in the series finale if I remember rightly. |
| Dynaman8789 | 09 Apr 2016 3:47 p.m. PST |
> Saucer Separation was referenced in the TOS episode 'The Apple' Doesn't count – they didn't have the budget to mess up the model to show it! |
 javelin98  | 11 Apr 2016 3:45 p.m. PST |
"The episode shows the first time that a Federation starship lands on a planet's surface." Does that include the time in TMP when it landed on the surface of V-ger's domain? |
