Why was this enormous thing built on Earth, when it would require as much fuel to leave the atmosphere as it would...

Why was this enormous thing built on Earth, when it would require as much fuel to leave the atmosphere as it would? Why not construct it in space, like we did with the International Space Station?

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Showmanship

It was built in space, you can see it in earth space dock right at the start of the movie and also in subsequent movies its being repaired in space.

The picture you should have posted was nuTrek or ENT. Both were built on the ground, JJ trek because its written by a mongoloid and ENT because the ship was smaller and supposed to be a prototype

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>kurtzman fired, no celebration thread
so you stopped even trying to obfuscate this being a shill board

How would a ship like the Enterprise even lift off?

they have anti-gravity tech

it' over.

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Enterprise was built in space, around Mars, as was pretty much every federation ship. JJ ignored this because he wanted a cool trailer shot of Kirk watching it being built.

Why would I care? Whoever they replace him with will be equally terrible, the problem is bigger than one hack

>Rumor
nonetheless I hope it's true

The problem with all nuTrek was literally kurtzman. The only way from here is up.

The big travesty is that William Shatner is still with us, the biggest asset of the entire franchise.
Nobody cares about fucking Picard, give Kirk a final sendoff show and you'll have a guaranteed hit.

It's still a rumor though.

I never imagined that the behind the scenes would be more interesting then the actual product on screen. I watched all of them, and they were usually boring. But this drama with the brand and license is more interesting then any trek has been in two decades.

retard

The NX-01 was also built in space. The only ship shown in Enterprise launching from Earth is the NX-Beta.

Earth orbit, San Francisco Fleet Yard

>The problem with all nuTrek was literally kurtzman

No, the problem with all NuTrek is that they legally can't use the same designs in old Trek and current Trek because despite being officially pieces of one unbroken universe, those rights are owned by different companies that guard them jealously. There can be no healing the Trek universe until all of it belongs to one owner again.

It was built on orbit.

The shipyards are in orbit around Utopia Planetia, a geological feature on Mars.

Film and television canon says you're wrong.

San Francisco Fleet Yard:
NX-01/02, Franklin, Shenzhou, Discovery, Enterprise, Enterprise (refit), Enterprise-A, etc

They didn't start using Utopia Planitia till the TNG era.

Yeah because that seems more plausible than hiring the piece of shit that made scorpion to make star trek only to have him use the same format for trek and run it into the dirt. Yeah it was totally a license issue when the cash cow mmo has been using assets from every series/movie + the actors come back to replay the same roles.

Yeah its totally licensing.

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Original, Enterprise-A, Enterprise-B and Enterprise-E were built on San Francisco Fleet yards. Enterprise-D was built in Utopia Planetia. Where Enterprise-C was built is not known canonically.

The Enterprise-C dedication plaque says Utopia Planitia but it wasn't shown on-screen clearly enough to read.

This makes sense crewman!

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KEK.

>Star Trek
>fuel
pick one.

Yes everybody in this thread is correct that Federation ships are built in space, but the bigger problem with your post is that Fed ships don't run on propulsion. Real rockets work by shooting stuff opposite to the direction of acceleration, but Star Trek ships work by sci-fi magic, so fuel expenditure isn't an issue

Fingers crossed.

ITS BEEN A LONG ROAD

I fucking hated that the plot of Star Trek Into Darkness was basically "Bush did 9/11"

Yeah thanks a lot, Kurtzman. That Alex Jones tier shit is not the social commentary Star Trek is going for.

>Why was this enormous thing built on Earth
Because JJ Abrams just wanted a shot of young Kirk riding up to it and looking up at it as it was being built.
He's a hack. Also responsible for cutting out Luke from TFA and replacing his shit with another Death Star plotline.

TOS a shit, Shatner is a meme

Just warp out

>give Kirk a final sendoff

Literally already happened

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Imagine the destruction caused by a ship warping at ground level.

Fusion

>>In Federation starships, the impulse drive was essentially an augmented fusion rocket, usually consisting of one or more fusion reactors, a driver coil assembly, and a vectored thrust nozzle to direct the plasma exhaust. The fusion reaction generated a highly energized plasma.

The Federation's main shipyard is in orbit around Mars.

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>The big travesty is that William Shatner is still with us, the biggest asset of the entire franchise.
He was given a sendoff with Generations. Also Shatner is quite old, almost 90. I don't know would he be in good enough shape for anything aside from few scenes as cameo, he asked bad reboot for a cameo, but they declined as his character was dead. They could have easily bought him back with some time travel paradox.
>Nobody cares about fucking Picard, give Kirk a final sendoff show and you'll have a guaranteed hit.
A lot of people care about Picard, but would just prefer sendoff made by competent people.

It has been only rarely made issue, but they definitely use fuel. Anti-matter for warp drive, rest of ships systems are run with nuclear fusion, fuel for those is mostly tanked at space station and reserve is also topped off constantly with hydrogen and helium harvested from space with buzzard collectors.

Usually at space docks and low altitude atmospheric conditions they use mostly conventional thrusters.

You mean to tell me space homosexuals doesn't sell?

They did build it in space tho. Only JJs retarded ass built it on Earth

Thrusters

In the JJverse they're built literally on the surface of Earth

Yeah, but he's an idiot so I'm going to ignore that.

Not canon

Does he even know about MODERN space flight? It would be much easier to construct this shit in space, not to mention cheaper, due to how much fuel it would take to lift off when it will never need to lift off of a planet ever again.

I take great pleasure and satisfaction in this.

amazon snatched it up below asking price because no one else wanted it

I'm pretty sure that's how it worked in traditional Star Trek. The ships were built in space and never entered an atmosphere except under really unusual circumstances, and they couldn't land.

Impulse engines provide enough sublight thrust to take a starship into orbit. They're pretty fucking powerful, but warp engines make them seem less relevant.

The mmo devs pay for the likeness rights of characters and designs. And they have no reason not to.
One company that begrudgingly shares the Trek IP is going to kick it's heels and say fuck you I'll find a way around paying those cocksuckers.

Why would it matter? It's shown that Anti-Gravity has been mastered by the Federation...

Even if built on the ground, they likely had Anti-Grav sleds or tug boats to lift it into Orbit.