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Rochey wrote:Oh, something I noticed and forgot to mention. During one of the scenes in the engineering hull, there're several large pieces of equipment with the nuclear symbol on them in the background. Anyone else catch that?

Yup several huge drum like cylinders in the engine room had the symbol on them, they seemed to be about 20m high and about the same in diameter.

IanKennedy wrote:If you don't have digital projection in your cinema, or it's particularly small, then by all means go to the IMAX. We won't be bothering to go to the IMAX again. My prediction digital projection is going to kill off IMAX.

Our theater has both a really large screen and digital projection, so I don't really feel like I'm missing much.

IanKennedy wrote:

Rochey wrote:Oh, something I noticed and forgot to mention. During one of the scenes in the engineering hull, there're several large pieces of equipment with the nuclear symbol on them in the background. Anyone else catch that?

Yup several huge drum like cylinders in the engine room had the symbol on them, they seemed to be about 20m high and about the same in diameter.

It makes at least some sense to have some radioactive items on the ship, but I'm not sure why the huge amount of what appear to be reaction chambers or something? What happened to matter/anti- primary reaction?

Weren't the E-D's impulse drives supposed to be powered by fusion?
Maybe back in TOS, they used nuclear fusion?

But they mentioned dilithium in TOS, which is part of the M/AM reaction.

Lazar wrote:But they mentioned dilithium in TOS, which is part of the M/AM reaction.

Matter/antimatter for warp, fusion for impulse.

Wait, never mind.

I forget if it was in this thread or another, or on another site entirely, where someone questioned the water pipe system that scotty gets beamed into, (which also had various radiation warnings on it IIRC). Might it be possible that the water circulations system was some sort of only slightly radioactive coolant-type thing for the nuclear plant the ships purportedly have? I got the idea from reading The Hunt For Red October and it's description of reactor syatems. Apparently there is an inner radioactive loop and an outer less radioactive loop? Does this seem accurate? I'm sure someone here knows better than I.

I never realized talking about Spock's mom could get you killed.

me,myself and I wrote:I forget if it was in this thread or another, or on another site entirely, where someone questioned the water pipe system that scotty gets beamed into, (which also had various radiation warnings on it IIRC). Might it be possible that the water circulations system was some sort of only slightly radioactive coolant-type thing for the nuclear plant the ships purportedly have? I got the idea from reading The Hunt For Red October and it's description of reactor syatems. Apparently there is an inner radioactive loop and an outer less radioactive loop? Does this seem accurate? I'm sure someone here knows better than I.

And the chomper at the end of the waterslide?

I'm SURE that is was supposed to be some sort of coolant, but if so..........why didn't Scotty freeze or melt or something?

Well the point of a coolant system is that it gets rid of the heat. In an ideal system the water going into the reactor is back down to normal room temperatures.

Even fusion produces some radiation; as I understand it the actual reactor vessel lining itself can end up being radioactive from exposure to the reaction over long periods. So it's not too surprising that there are places for handling radioactive materials on board. Hell there are hundreds of uses of radioactives beyond power generation right now, the stuff there could have been for just about anything.

me,myself and I wrote:I forget if it was in this thread or another, or on another site entirely, where someone questioned the water pipe system that scotty gets beamed into, (which also had various radiation warnings on it IIRC). Might it be possible that the water circulations system was some sort of only slightly radioactive coolant-type thing for the nuclear plant the ships purportedly have? I got the idea from reading The Hunt For Red October and it's description of reactor syatems. Apparently there is an inner radioactive loop and an outer less radioactive loop? Does this seem accurate? I'm sure someone here knows better than I.

I don't remember seeing signs like that on it. It had a textured surface to the container so it didn't really have room for signs.

wasn't it like a bright yellow? I don't think you would really notice the radioactive sign over a bright yellow tube.

Nickswitz wrote:wasn't it like a bright yellow? I don't think you would really notice the radioactive sign over a bright yellow tube.

The item Scotty beamed into was black, not yellow.

Oh... the hatch was yellow maybe, I remember something was yellow.