[RandallFlagg]

I know about the noise, but at least it was reduced to a muted level instead of the screeching phaser-like volumes.

Gravity fields are possibly just another engineering feat of these types of Sci-fi.

"Wings" on the vipers are understandable: They do operate both in atmosphere and space.

[Burkeman1]

Your right about the wings on the vipers. I forgot that they operate in atmosphere as well. And they did mute the noise. Gravity still bothers me though. They should at least make an attempt to explain it. The amount of power necessary to create such a field would be astronomical. Even theoretical explanations are absurd (creating controlled mini black holes for each ship to establish an Earth like gravity field for example.) It is pretty sad when "2001 a space odeyessy" is still the best movie to accurately represent human space travel and living in space- especially the use of artificial gravity by means of centrifugal force- the only means feasible for at least thousands of years of mimicing an Earth Gravity in space. That would make for some pretty odd looking space craft though and expensive sets for movie production- so I understand the need to blow off the gravity issue with "magic wand" solutions.