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Can Voyager-A land?

Admiral Jean-Luc Picard

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Voyager landed what, 8 times on the show? I believe both the Prometheus and the Equinox had landing gear, on the MSD's, and little landing gear doors on the CGI models. Prometheus was about Voyager's size, and Equinox was smaller. On Prodigy, the title ship landed several times across the show's run. In Season 2, we have Voyager-A, and I was hoping we would get to see it land just for the fun of it. I remember it looked like the ship had landed in the final episode, or maybe it was just hovering?

Any Trek-sperts here who can confirm this one or the other?
 
It seems like only ships of Voyager's size or smaller are given landing gear, and landing is very rare. I imagine every Starfleet ship can enter a planet's atmosphere if it wants to, Voyager-A certainly had no trouble with it, but they wouldn't look very dignified after setting down.
 
It seems like only ships of Voyager's size or smaller are given landing gear, and landing is very rare. I imagine every Starfleet ship can enter a planet's atmosphere if it wants to, Voyager-A certainly had no trouble with it, but they wouldn't look very dignified after setting down.
Do you think it's a size thing or a "designed to land" thing? I feel like it's the latter one.
Even the NX-01 had no trouble flying over NYC with a compromised hull. :eek:
 
we know it can hover in atmosphere, so it being able to land isn't much of a stretch.
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with the NX-01 in "storm front pt2" and NCC-1701 in "tomorrow is yesterday" the ships were continually in motion, and thus you could argue they were flying by way of thrust from impulse engines and thrusters. hovering though, especially the effortless hovering the Voyager-A does, suggests ship scale anti-grav, and that's only something a ship able to land would bother with.
 
we know it can hover in atmosphere, so it being able to land isn't much of a stretch.
209-devourer-all-things-pt2-340.jpg

with the NX-01 in "storm front pt2" and NCC-1701 in "tomorrow is yesterday" the ships were continually in motion, and thus you could argue they were flying by way of thrust from impulse engines and thrusters. hovering though, especially the effortless hovering the Voyager-A does, suggests ship scale anti-grav, and that's only something a ship able to land would bother with.
The Enterprise was able to hover in atmosphere, as seen in the first episode of SNW.
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