"STAR TREK" Trailer available online

[Zoidberg]

Not an official release yet, but this is the trailer: http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_seyret&Itemid=227&task=videodirectlink&id=529

Also at http://www.trekmovie.com

[pRICE cUBE]

nerd mode on-

I know it's just a movie but hundreds of years from now when this is supposed place the human race is still depending on welding? They have advanced technology that makes us able to travel at warp speeds, blow up Klingons, heal people with a medical tricorder and welding is how they are putting this thing together? Is that really going to hold up to the rigors of space travel at warp velocities? I am not a rocket scientist but using the technology we have now to make cares just doesn't jive.


-nerd mode off

[BigGuynRusty]

Nice to hear Nimoy.

BGnR

[BigGuynRusty]

[quote pRICE cUBE] I am not a rocket scientist Obviously.

BGnR

[ho'ard]

Heal people with a tricorder?
Bad nerd.

[archipirata]

The rEAL pRon

[Zoidberg]

Note; It's just a TV Show – er, I mean, it's just a teaser trailer. Like a lot of good teasers, what you see in that isn't from the actual film, nor is it part of the storyline.

The E was (will be?) built in orbit at the San Francisco Naval Yards. This was just something to whet the appetite.

[cbelt3]

PriCe-

Welding is how you fuse metallic crystals together to make two pieces into one piece. However you do it, as long as pieces of metal (You did know that metals are empirically crystals, right ?) need to be joined, welding will be there. Any other bonding method (glue, rivet, bolts, warp field flux) takes a nice coherent structure and just 'holds it together' rather than truly fusing two parts into one.

Most sci fi welding is done with 'plasma welders' Amusingly enough, plasma torches are commercially available today, and are used as cutting torches in industry.

Plasma welding, proton welding, electron beam welding, and so forth are all done, but generally have to be done with automated equipment. In the world of today, Electric Arc welding in its many forms is still king.

And plasma torches are way cool to play with. There's something about generating a stream of 'the fourth state of matter' that causes all my high school physics to bubble to the top.

[PeterB]

Ugh. That was awful, I felt like I was watching a bad Russian vision of Trek. Not impressed, this whole thing is looking like a monumentally bad idea.

[MikeF]

Everyone knows the real Scotty held things together with duct tape, paper clips, and rubber bands. And some chewing gum just for good measure...