It is? I don't think so. There were only a few episodes (I can think of two episdoes of TNG, and then the ending battle in Generations) in which any of the Enterprise ships entered an atmosphere, and that was only for temporary skips through the upper atmosphere, during which the ship was difficult to control. And it's clearly not designed to land, since it doesn't have any stable contact points. When the saucer section "landed" in Generations, it was irrepairably damaged. You're probably thinking about Voyager. It fared much better in its atmospheric encounters.
Aha! But this is the movie version of the TOS Enterprise, which actually *did* travel in the atmosphere--sorta (Tomorrow Is Yesterday). Now THAT is an historic fact. The Air Force recovered the gun camera film from the plane the Enterprise destroyed with its tractor beam and--and--oh crap, I need to date more...
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It is? I don't think so. There were only a few episodes (I can think of two episdoes of TNG, and then the ending battle in Generations) in which any of the Enterprise ships entered an atmosphere, and that was only for temporary skips through the upper atmosphere, during which the ship was difficult to control. And it's clearly not designed to land, since it doesn't have any stable contact points. When the saucer section "landed" in Generations, it was irrepairably damaged. You're probably thinking about Voyager. It fared much better in its atmospheric encounters. Aha! But this is the movie version of the TOS Enterprise, which actually *did* travel in the atmosphere--sorta (Tomorrow Is Yesterday). Now THAT is an historic fact. The Air Force recovered the gun camera film from the plane the Enterprise destroyed with its tractor beam and--and--oh crap, I need to date more...