[MrQ1701]

Originally Posted by TheQ

Well, it was still in Spacedock, wasn't it? Wouldn't it be beneficial for a crew working on the outer hull if there were external inertial dampners?

Ummmm... No. Nothing was moving. The entire purpose of inertial dampeners were to get around the scientific fact that you would end up a smear on the back wall under extreme acceleration. We can perform space walks NOW, do we need inertial dampeners??

[TheQ]

Yeah, but I'm saying--they were the "External inertial dampners". Why would you ever use those?

[IanAndout]

Originally Posted by TheQ

Yeah, but I'm saying--they were the "External inertial dampners". Why would you ever use those?

I suppose if you had to work outside the ship for some reason (say, to fix external hull damage) with the ship moving at impulse, it would be a good idea to have some sort of dampeners to keep the work crew from turning into jello.

[Admiral Archer]

Originally Posted by TheQ

Well, it was still in Spacedock, wasn't it? Wouldn't it be beneficial for a crew working on the outer hull if there were external inertial dampners?

I agree.

[JamesTKirk1701]

Originally Posted by TheQ

Well, it was still in Spacedock, wasn't it? Wouldn't it be beneficial for a crew working on the outer hull if there were external inertial dampners?

Starfleet has magnetic boots, no need for external inertial dampers. Whoever wrote that part into the movie is a loser, everyone whos into Trek knows the inertial dampers are internal only per se. They actually absorb the movement of the ship as a whole so crews being on the hull is a dumb excuse for the "external inertial dampers" discussion because no such thing exists. That's like pumping fresh desalinated water back into the ocean from a submarine. Maybe Orci or Kurtzman should have included a disclaimer that they know nothing about Star Trek yet included that just to appear to know something about Star Trek.

[kevin]

No, it made me laugh - C'mon, who hasn't made a nervous mistake? Stalled a car? or dropped something important?

These things happen in life, and peopl chuckle at them when they do.

[Enterprise NCC-1701-A]

everybody can mess up in a while lol

[NCC-73515]

It was a very funny and good scene, but why do you need and not need it?

[Enterprise NCC-1701-A]

good question sir.

[Captain Tom Coughlin]

Maybe a saftey devise for ships inside spacedock. When the fleet went to warp they did it right next to the space station. They warp space, that must have an effect on the space around the area. So a ship in space dock, and maybe the station itself uses external intertial dampeners as a saftey measure against the distortions in space caused by other ships going to warp. BS I know, but it sounds good to me