Re: Star Trek Teaser Trailer Now Up On The Internets

"Anim8rFSK" <ANIM8Rfsk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote...
> I'd submit that holding your ship 16,000 miles above a planet is 
> different than a cold take off from ground level.

Even back in TOS they had the ability to clamp a
device on something and render it weightless
(remember the floating plasma bottle/antimatter
bomb in "Obssession?")  If a dramatic, bone-
rattling takeoff is not needed, they could in theory
attach an enormous version of that same device
to a starship (though it'd probably look more 
believable if it was shown being done to smaller
subassemblies), neutralize its mass and just float
it slowly up off the planet with a bunch of small,
tug-like "pusher" craft.

GeneK