| ▲ | ck2 5 days ago | |
I mean, they have GRAVITY PLATING We could many centuries from now have "warp drive" but GRAVITY PLATING is completely implausible Yet it makes every episode of each ST series watchable so we just accept "the future" | ||
| ▲ | lazide 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
They invented the transporter because they didn’t have the special effects budget to handle landing a ‘spacecraft’ each time on the planet. Gravity plating is pretty mellow hah | ||
| ▲ | gpm 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Why is something that applies a roughly uniform downwards force to things in an area above it (or maybe between two plates of it?) implausible. It doesn't come with nearly the same level of implausibility (causality problems) that FTL does IMHO. | ||
| ▲ | pndy 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
At least they mention it. Unlike in both old and new Battlestar Galactica. Ships there are just able to keep people walking like on a planet's surface. | ||