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Originally Posted by trek21
Well you'd think in a futuristic series like ST, this wouldn't be much of an issue, considering their general ease of doing things  In fact, they probably rigged up some technobabble to put an anti-gravity field on the Enterprise herself, neutralizing it's weight, but not overdoing it that it started floating.
Somehow, that wouldn't surprise me 
And I'd think impulse would work the same whether it was atmosphere or deep space  It's designed to move the ship forward/backward/whatever direction after all, no special tricks required (unlike warp drive) |
We've never seen that intricate of a anti-gravity system in any Trek. (Closest we've seen was the room for Melora Pazlar in DS9 and that was tiny.) But nothing on the size and scale of a starship.
It probably would work just fine... but I dont know if theres some technobabble reason why it cant, as the only form of propulsion we saw used when a starship landed was thrusters when Voyager landed.