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Submitted by Nitpicker : selfdo
Series : Star Trek
Episode : The Doomsday Machine
Nitpick Category : Editing
Nitpick Number : 3012
Approximate time of nitpick : 2/3 of the way through
Summary : Size relationships of Planet Killer to planets, Enterprise, and Shuttlecraft contriadictory...
Details : First off, this is a device large enough, with enough power to destroy an entire planet, literally blow it to bits (and then eat the bits). To require "chowing down" on a planet, the Planet Killer must itself be huge, at least comparably visible to an entire planet. Therefore, it would completely dwarf the NCC-1701 Enterprise like a speck. Yet the visuals show it as being about ten times the size of the Enterprise, certainly large (about two miles long), but not extraordinary compared to a planet. Also, in the scenes where Matt Decker takes the shuttlecraft on a "kamikaze" run down the Planet Killer's maw, it's shown to be about the same size as the Constellation when it but several minutes later itself enters the machine.


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by jack   Tuesday, January 22, 2008 12:31 PM

It is claimed that the Doomsday Machine must be comparable in size to the planets it is eating. Ain't necessarily so.
Maybe the nitpicker is picturing a lion and a zebra, two animals comparable in size. Yet a cat will quite happily eat a cow, an animal perhaps 100 times its size. The difference is that the cat doesn't need to hunt the cow, merely wait for you to open a can of beef.
Since a planet is inanimate and so can't escape and can't fight back, the situation here is like the cat and the cow rather than the lion and the zebra.