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| Sep 25, 2019 at 15:07 | comment | added | Paul D. Waite | @Lèsemajesté: that dock with the Enterprise in it actually has had all the vacuum drained from it. Obviously you can't see that, because both a vacuum and the absence of a vacuum are invisible to television cameras. | |
| Oct 17, 2012 at 11:25 | comment | added | Lèse majesté | @Bobby: It's possible that officially the Intrepid is technically classified as a "deep-space exploration vessel", but it's used as a scout ship in a combat role during times of war. This makes sense since the two roles are analogous. Scout vessels are designed for deep solo penetrations of enemy lines. So their main requirements are speed, range/stamina, and recon abilities. Voyager has the speed to evade enemies, the facilities to support its crew on long missions without resupply, and an array of state-of-the-art sensors for gathering intel. It's a trifecta. | |
| Jul 29, 2012 at 20:20 | comment | added | Bobby |
Voyager is a deep-space exploration vessel... I always thought/had in mind that the Intrepid was classified as "scouting vessel", not deep-space-exploration. I even think that was stated somewhere in the series. Though, Memory-Alpha and other sources state it is that way, so my memories might be playing a trick on me.
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| Dec 8, 2011 at 8:31 | comment | added | Lèse majesté | Ah, that analogy makes sense then in that context. I was thinking a starship drydock would be protecting the ship from the vacuum of space like a regular drydock protects its ship from water pressure. But being housed like that versus being moored would be a more logical analog. | |
| Dec 8, 2011 at 8:09 | comment | added | Chad Levy | According to Memory Alpha, drydock is synonymous with spacedock, which is used in a method similar to naval drydocks, where a drydock is a large structure that encompasses a starship, sometimes within an enclosure. "Wet docks" would be, I guess, where the vessel is moored, such as in the case of docking with DS9 or some other space station. en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Spacedock | |
| Dec 8, 2011 at 7:56 | comment | added | Lèse majesté | Totally OT but, wouldn't that technically be a wet dock? In reference to sea vessels, a dry dock is a gated basin that is flooded only to float boats in/out, but is otherwise drained when the ship is being built or worked on. It's a "dry" dock because the ship is out of water--its normal environment--and typically suspended on blocks. So for starships, shouldn't a drydock be a dock where the ship can be removed from the vacuum of space? | |
| Dec 4, 2011 at 1:28 | history | answered | Chad Levy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |