Power Generation calculations

[Mike DiCenso]

It's from the trailer for the upcoming Star Trek: Into Darkness. Apparently based on the scenes shown in the trailer, the ship crashes at high speed into the San Francisco bay.
-Mike

[359]

It's from the trailer for Star Trek: Into Darkness.

The Alt-E either landed in the ocean and is bobbing around, or is actually surfacing up from under the waves. Either way, very impressive.

I don't think that is the Enterprise the nacelles don't match and there is no saucer where one should be. It is a Starfleet vessel, the construction is correct and it has an NCC registry.

http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albu ... _hd_47.jpg
http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albu ... _hd_48.jpg

This one looks closer to a damaged Constitution-class design crashing into the water, but the nacelles, again, are wrong as are the pylons; to far apart and to narrow for the alt-Enterprise. The closest resemblance is to that of a Sovereign-class but with a more rounded saucer section.

[Mike DiCenso]

Actually, if you look at the image I provided closely, you can make out "NCC 170" on the aft part of the warp nacelle. So it is very likely to be the Alt-E. They may not be the same ship, however, since the crashing starship has land and buildings in front of it, while the Alt-E does not have any sign of San Francisco around it at all. The Splash-down starship might yet be an Alt-Constitution since her port nacelle pylon shows a very serious kink, and it may be that the force of impact has caused them to bend out and downwards. Either way, it's a big ship when compared to those foreground buildings, and apparently survived falling out of space at high velocity mostly intact.

If the Alt-E scene is a different one, I have to wonder what the heck is going on that she and other starships are suddenly going around taking baths.
-Mike

[Lucky]

In Star Trek XI they blow up the warpcore(s) to escape a blackhole capable of pulling in objects that can travel faster then light.

You'd need a rather high output to do that much like accelerate to the speed of light.