Moving shuttlecraft & runabi

[Albertese]

I have always assumed that vehicles in Star Trek are similarly equipped as vehicles from Star Wars, with repulsor lifts. In SW, landspeeders, probedroids, speederbikes, even the Millennium Falcon, while it's taxiing, seem to have motive power combined with the antigravity aspect. I assume that at least shuttlecraft work the same way. How else do you explain the sorts of soft landing we always see them making. I've thought this ever since I was a little kid watching Star Trek V. the flashy lights under the shuttle, to me at least, always read as a repulsor drive...

--Alex

 

[Timo]

ST5:TFF is the first to do the lights, and it couples them with the kicking-up-dust effect for pretty cool visuals. (If only the space visuals didn't suck so much...)

But do any of the other movies or shows do the lights, really? Even the reuse of the ST5 model in ST:GEN lacks the effect.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[B.J.]

This thread reminds me that I've always wanted to see a redesign of the Galileo shuttlecraft to include wheeled landing gear.

 

[Shat Happens]

In our world, how do they move helicopters around? (those that have only skids)

That must be the answer for Galileo's problem too.

 

[drt]

They use ground-handling wheels.

A shuttlecraft seems like it would be substantially heavier, and since we know the technology exists in Trek, I think the antigravs make more sense than jacking them up and putting wheels under them.

 

[Shik]

And yes, scotpens, "runabi" is the quirkier plural of runabout, because many years ago friends & I agreed that "runabouts" sounds weird.

Do you think knockabouts, roundabouts, roustabouts, whereabouts, walkabouts, gadabouts, and layabouts sound weird? Just curious.

Yes. I mean, I know they're technically right, as is "runabouts", but it sounds off & in private & close company, there's no need to be strict.

 

[Egger]

What's with the "treadmill effect" in the holodeck stopping you from running against its walls when you walk to far? I could imagine something like this to move shuttles around too.

Or, isn't control over a shuttle transferred to the ship's computer when landing or starting?
So for simply moving it around in the shuttlebay the computer could just activate the shuttle's own (AG) engines to move it around.

 

[HIjol]

I have no problem accepting there's a version of this thing in the Star Trek universe.

I liiiike it!!!


Ripely, "So, where do you want it?"

<Apone and Hicks exchange "man-looks">

"Bay 12...please!..."

 

[scotpens]

^^ To jump off-topic for a moment, that Power Loader from Aliens is one of the most believable and realistic pieces of fictional hardware I've ever seen in a sci-fi movie. I always wondered how the thing actually worked. Guess I should have figured there was a stuntman hidden inside it.

 

[SPCTRE]

I'm seriously having problems figuring this out. Yeah, we see shuttles & runabi at the ready all the time, but not ALL of them.

What are "runabi"? Is that the plural of "runabus"?

Yeah, this thread title is driving me nuts.

 

[HIjol]

"Runabi" is derived from mid-twentieth century Australian slang...linguists (cunning ones) believe it is a "baby-talk" version of "Walk-A-By" further related to the phrase "walk-a-bout", intended to get children indoors quickly for the then dangerous Rabbit Stampedes that plagued the continent, hence "Run a bi"...get your little butts indoors or you will be "bye-bye"...

 

[scotpens]

"Runabi" is derived from mid-twentieth century Australian slang...linguists (cunning ones) believe it is a "baby-talk" version of "Walk-A-By" further related to the phrase "walk-a-bout", intended to get children indoors quickly for the then dangerous Rabbit Stampedes that plagued the continent . . .

They grow 'em big Down Under.

 

[EmperorTiberius]

There is a repulsor sled in The Motion Picture

 

[HIjol]

"Runabi" is derived from mid-twentieth century Australian slang...linguists (cunning ones) believe it is a "baby-talk" version of "Walk-A-By" further related to the phrase "walk-a-bout", intended to get children indoors quickly for the then dangerous Rabbit Stampedes that plagued the continent . . .

They grow 'em big Down Under.

Love it love it love it!!!...thank you for the gut laugh!

 

[HIjol]

There is a repulsor sled in The Motion Picture

RE: my earlier post, I imagined something like that...thanks for the confirm...and, funny, TMP was the only one I turned my nose up at...time for a re-screen...

 

[T'Girl]

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This workbee is moving four cargo containers, it's inside the ship's atmosphere, subject to the ship's artificial gravity and moving overhead unprotected people without harming them. Whatever is keeping it "airborne" and moving is what would be used to move a shuttle inside the ship.

I think it's using anti-grav, YMMV.

 

[Shik]

Oh, good catch!

We know that Work Bees don't have AG capability themselves & they do have the particle beam thrusters as used in RCS assemblies. But those aren't enough to keep it aloft. Hmm.

 

[Shat Happens]

^ now it looks like a hot air baloon to me

 

[starburst]

Thats a pretty large shuttlebay, so I can imagine moving shuttles round on ships with smaller bays such as a Nova or Defiant is more of a challenge due to lower ceilings and space to turn even on the spot.

 

[T'Girl]

We know that Work Bees don't have AG capability themselves

How?