Why is it called a ship when it flies through the air? Its really a plane

plane is what the wings shapes of the wings are

enterprise doesn't have wings

"plane" is shorthand for "aeroplane" and refers specifically to the fixed-wing structure that every aeroplane ever has employed to some degree or another. The space shuttle is technically an aeroplane, but not a very good one since flying in-atmo is not its top priority.

A rocket has stabilizers but it is not a plane. Federation ships are barely aerodynamic (slimmer profiles are to make a smaller target for enemy fire rather than to avoid atmospheric resistance while moving, that is what shields and deflectors are for).

"Space" isn't real my sheeple friend.

anyone who thinks this is a boat is literally a retarded

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first use of 'ship' to describe
>"a balloon, aircraft, or powered spacecraft"
was in 1679, in 'Philosophical Collections', a work by Robert Hooke (the famous rival of Isaac Newton):

>"A Demonstration, how it is practically possible to make a Ship, which shall be sustained by the Air, and may be moved either by Sails or Oars."

if you think this is a boat I got bad news for you.

its 2016 your talking about people who were racist and thought you should go around burning all the women who disagreed with them because their overpriveleged white people.

The Enterprise is a boat in the naval sense of a submarine-style craft, it's water tight and highly resistant to pressure.

That's not a boat because it wouldn't work in water, but the Enterprise would.

>it's water tight and highly resistant to pressure.
bu-but its air tight and highly resistant to pressure clearly its an underwater submarine by your definition senpai.

Air isn't water, guess which one rockets don't work in

but what if a plane travels into space. does it become a ship?
and if a ship travels back down to earths atmosphere does it become a plane?

>but what if a plane travels into space. does it become a ship?
>and if a ship travels back down to earths atmosphere does it become a plane?
y u do dis?

>all of these people replying to a ridiculous bait thread

Its a ship because its called the enterprise

all scifi suffers from space is an ocean syndrome

also

>air
>in space

there probably are pockets of air in space it's just that because of the vacuum the air is expanding so fast that it can't be detected

Most illogical

really makes you think

>We aren't so different, Will and I
How did they get away with this?

>A rocket has stabilizers but it is not a plane.
itt rocket engines on planes means their rockets...
>pic related Jet planes have Rockets for thrusters. using this logic then...
Hey guys I'm a rocket pilot, now watch me fly this boat around!

Why hasn't anyone mentioned that a plane is a ship?

You have port and starboard with red and green lights

The captain is in charge of the plane, and pilot was originally a maritime term

>A rocket has stabilizers but it is not a plane
We are rocketships Yuri! Look at me go!

>pilot was originally a maritime term

it still is btw, just overshadowed

It's more of a tire-less car if you ask me.

It doesn't have to move to stay in the air so its not a plane.

It doesn't go in the water so its not a ship or a boat

It's a hovercraft

The term everyone is reaching for is that the Enterprise is an amphibious vehicle because it can operate in the air and in space.

Can the Enterprise travel on water? Then it's a ship.

>It's a Sophie Turner episode

brb I dropped my ship in the water.... see it floating?

Pish posh you say its a flashlight, it floats! therefore its a ship!

>anything that floats on water is a ship.
Welcome to my ship Im the captain now.

that episode is my favorite I think.

What about airships? Are they boats or planes?

I never knew Sasha Grey had a cameo in Trek before she turned to porn.

>What about airships? Are they boats or planes?

their trucks.

airships huh?

>it's water tight and highly resistant to pressure.

It's only the fucking JJ one that goes in water or even atmospheres you fucking noob

Looks absolutely nothing like Sasha Grey.

Voyager did

>airship
>air
>ship

it was also a lot smaller

The original Enterprise entered the Earth's atmosphere at least once, when it was flung back in time to the 1960s.

i think they used the shrink ray from west world.

>When the globalists still deny chemtrails and the normies believe them

great ep.
scotty out drinks that big mofo

It doesn't fly through the air you fucking dickless faggot. It flies through the aether between the celestial spheres.

If there are ships which travel in air and we call them "airships" then we could call these ships which travel in space "spaceships"

>eh thinks westworld is actually on the table

that's just a holographic display

maybe theyre called airships because they ship air. the balloon is full of air, if you wanted to transport air to the other side of the world it would make perfect sense to call them airships. since they ship air

^mind blown

They also reference that episode in tng for the Scotty episode when Scott is in Tenforward trying to get drunk and Data gets him something that "it is green".

>it is green
I read that in data's voice kek

>It is green.
Top kek friends

Space ship.

>ocean just bulging up in the center and staying there

Was that the ultimate example of just how dumb Trek writers are?

>It's gotta solar sail so it should be made out of wood

Why they never go up or down in space

Why is it always horizontal?

Because then they wouldn't get anywhere. Think about it, you can't go to the shops by going up and down your stairs.

3d tactics are movie only

What if I live above a shop?

Everybody lives above a shop if you dig deep enough, is that supposed to impress me?

>flies through the air
>in space
Fuck, you're retarded.

Just as; "Why is it called a school, when 'noone goes there' any longer..."

Stargate doesn't... The ship's are airforce

Its based on the meme that space is an ocean

The structure of it and the organization of the crew is similar to those of a ship.
Name one plane with 400 crewmates.

Your example fell apart user

It is, camera is stabilised and fixed

Fixed to what? And you need gravity for steadycams

Exactly. There's a reason they call it the Alliance Navy in mass effect.

The plane that came into your house and fucked your mom

The viewers selfiestick

Not an argument.

>Was that the ultimate example of just how dumb Trek writers are?

Wooden spaceships are hardly a new concept. In all honesty, they pre-date oceangoing ships being made of metal, as the idea of a ship that could sail the heavens dates back to antiquity. In the Star Trek mythos itself, a wooden ship appeared in the animated episode The Time Trap back in the '70s.

>Why they never go up or down in space

They do all the fucking time.

i float through life

am i a lifeship?

Would you rather have this or the hundredth "what did he mean by this?" thread of the day? Cred Forums is shit no matter what.

You make a certain kind of sense.

I mean there is no air in space but there also isn't water.

It also has no wings so it's not a plane, nor rotors so it's not a helicopter.

The closest thing to it is a Submarine, but that means it's a thing that's under water. A thing that's surrounded by water.

So clearly the only accurate name for a "spaceship" is a Subvacuum.

Because ship sounds better. That's the end of it.

You're the only reasonable person in this thread my friend.

Do you have a brain tumor or something?

I float around with gas in my colon.

Am I a fartship?

You figured that out all by yourself, did you?

lmao she's much more attractive than sophie "tranny" turner

Who said that was a boat?

So when I pay to send something by UPS or DHL I'm actually boating it?